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> Voting with your wallet probably isn't going to work, because you probably represent a drop in the bucket of sales.

I mean... it worked. People voted with their valets and the side who likes tangled cables to listen to music from their phones lost the vote. That is literally voting with your valet in action.

I understand that you probably mean "voting with your wallet won't work" in the sense that it won't change the situation. But it is also a bit like saying that democracy doesn't work because my party didn't win, because there were not enough people supporting it. A bit against the principle of the thing.




No, people didn't vote with their wallets. Apple made a decision and everyone was forced by Apple's lock-in to deal with it.


But did people buy the jackless phones? That is voting with their wallets.

It is not like anyone is forced at gunpoint to buy apple phones.




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