>>18233080

His model was a "complete control" concept. He owns the chips, he owns the boards, he owns the operating system. It's very easy to make it work well when you control the whole thing. Make it pretty, make it a luxury brand. They kept going farther and farther with controlling the programming languages, the interface style, and so on. With things like iPad and iPhone they again went farther with controlling what you can install. Next thing you know your apple products are spying on you, monitoring your health and physical location, installing covid contact trackers, social credit software and sharing your files with governments and corporations.

>>18233141

Cracka please. We know the CIA and the NSA hate each other. We're on the NSA's side so you can hate us even more.

>>18233193

That literally was a long explanation of what closed garden meant. It's pretty and you keep out what you don't like.

Keeping people forever is more of a customer service kind of thing; about how they keep the user enthralled with their products, new products bundled with their OS, OS upgrades with new feature releases.

Any kind of fringe benefit that they can give away for free keeps people coming back. There are car companies that do stuff like this too. You keep the user on your platform, you keep control of their future purchases. Of course now it is about complete control.

>>18233196

In the bare minimum at least one, there are over 100 posts about the CIA/clowns, so…