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What a trivial blog post.

Aside, Apple going into services is incentivizing them making durable devices which are used long-term. Without services Apple may "not be happy" that you use a 9 year old Macbook. But with services they do want a large install base, new devices and old, so they can sell Apple TV and Music and Apps.

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Can you elaborate on why you think it’s trivial?

It's not a new idea at all or especially insightfully written. However, I'm not upset by it being posted; I still enjoyed reading it and found it was tastefully short.

It skips over the difficult question of "how big is too big?"

Easy to complain about in the abstract. Hard to answer how we restructure society to determine when a company or individual salary is too large, without allowing each company or individual make that decision for themselves.

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