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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless there are apps you use regularly that cost a lot of money and you don't want to pay for them again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Do you regularly buy apps that cost hundreds of dollars? A vast majority of apps are within the $1-$5 range. We're talking about buying phones that are well into the high hundreds to thousands of dollars. That's a drop in the purchase and operating cost of the device.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same said for other ecosystems like windows, android, playstation, Xbox and so on.. Not apples fault.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I made a switch to linux recently and some of my paid software works there too.

Most steam games, Matlab. Wine and proton make it possible to run many Windows applications

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not directly. However they sure have learned on how to capitalise on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure. I'm just explaining why it can be a problem if you want to switch.