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  • I would use legal alternatives… Had they the content I want…

    Right now, if I want to follow an anime in Europe? Maybe first season is in netflix, but second could be in crunchyroll (maybe), then half of the third is in an obscure and unknown service… And the other half is in Amazon prime.

    I want to pay the legal alternative, what I won’t do is subscribe to 6 different streaming services a month, that won’t guarantee the availability of a show even after the first month and watching ads forcedly.

    Piracy is a service problem. And with streaming, we have a huge service problem.





  • My main gaming device is now a steam deck. I’ve run on it mostly everything I’m interested in. I reckon I don’t like competitive games, so I never tried lol or Fortnite or CoD or anything of the likes, but the deck at home is running from Genshin impact to Final Fantasy 14. No man’s sky, assassin’s creed odyssey, ff16 demo, and every indie I wanted to play.

    And except for games like Genshin impact or honkai star rail (not for me but for my SO) which needed a different launcher and some small tweaking, the rest of the games have been running “out of the box”, doing no tweaking at all.



  • It’s actually pretty simple: they have created the perfect conditions.

    First, theirs is not a customer but a fanbase. People want to be part of the apple universe because they are fans of it.

    Second, they have made it extremely difficult to get out once you enter their ecosystem.

    So basically you have a good bunch of people who are fans of their products (so not buying because of functionality but because of fidelity), and another good bunch that are captives of a previous decision and can’t get out easily.

    There are other minor groups in their customer base, but they aren’t that relevant to make a dent in their sales if Apple loses them.