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Is this because people still use Instagram and not "Facebook"?

Literally billions of people use Facebook.

It’s amazing how supposedly rational people on HN are perfectly willing to extrapolate from their own highly biased sample just because they don’t like company X. (See also “nobody uses Windows”, “nobody in America has an Android phone”, etc.)

Or iphone/apple have "sealed their fate" by not doing something like the headphone jack or a replaceable battery or whatever.

comments like that always remind of that rsync guy's comment on dropbox's launch on HN. I wonder how this weird blindspot develops in people.

right - and it assumes that a company like apple has given no thought to what might sell in the market when they come out with things like the "wildly overpriced" airpods.

Yes, when they came out, they cost a LOT more than the competitors (I used Jabra). But wow, did they WORK well. It was no comparison really and was a lot of little things (just fewer bugs I think rather than features, they ALWAYS paired with my phone, pretty quickly, and had good battery life).

For a lot of consumers, they don't care about features, they just trust apple more than they would for example govt run email or govt made phones.

A lot of people use Instagram, it’s the same company, what’s your point ?

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