Of course once people have invested significantly (in this case apps, music etc.) they will find it to pretty hard to leave. Having grown up in southern Denmark, we would occasionally find fleeing people in small boats and made up rafts, who were trying to cross to our side of the Baltic sea. The one story that still remains in my head, is how a young boy got a banana by the fishermen who took them up, whereto he asked "Why is the banana yellow?".
I think the metaphor still works, to this day for instance you can still find plenty of people in the former U.S.S.R who long for the communist time when "everything just worked". /Casper On Feb 1, 3:12 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 1, 12:45 am, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think the iPhone is a dictatorship, and most people don't give a > > damn about democracy and freedom unless the dictatorship is affecting > > them directly. > > Having grown up in a dictatorship (East Germany), I would define a > dictatorship as a form of government that most of those who live under > it can't leave (and can't prevent from being born into). To me, a > consumer product that's not in a monopoly position can't be a > dictatorship since users are free to enter and leave. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
