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>I think you severely underestimate how powerful familiarity is in anchoring non-tech users to particular platforms.

What familiarity? Microsoft has changed the look and feel of the OS to the point that it no longer retains that familiarity from version to version.


Don’t forget about the BeOS being the Batmobile!

As do people. Which ends up weakening copyright even further as it becomes a law everyone ignores, on the level of speeding or jaywalking. The same knock-on effects as Prohibition, we become a nation of scofflaws.

People don't know copyright law. They think they do and are alright with the construct they made up in their heads. But they don't actually know what it says and does and means, otherwise they'd hate it much more.


> They think they do and are alright with the construct they made up in their heads. But they don't actually know what it says and does and means, otherwise they'd hate it much more.

This is also why companies have slowed down on enforcing it too much: if people actually understood copyright, there would be too much pushback.


Why?


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Does it actually do anything?

I'm seeing a lot of posts from people discussing everything and anything other than whether or not the application is fit for purpose and does what it's claiming it does.


>there's a famous video of an interviewer asking people on the street ca. 1997 whether they would want a mobile phone. So not even a smartphone, just a mobile phone. The answer was overwhelmingly negative.

So people didn't want to be walking around with a tether that allowed the whole world to call them where ever they were? Le Shock!

Now if they'd asked people if they'd like a small portable computer they could keep in touch with friends and read books, play games, play music and movies on where ever they went which also made phone calls. I suspect the answer might have been different.


Actually iirc cell phone service was still expensive back in 1997. It was nice but not worth paying that much for the average person on the street.


I miss DrunkenBatman...

I used to regularly check for years after he stopped posting, just in case...

The last it was active was in 2019, then it disappeared forever.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191007180901/http://www.drunke...


Burger King.


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