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Nah, I don't buy that at all

Every industry in America, and especially tech players, work to lock in their customers, paid or not. People who are dependent on their phones don't make choices like that, and anticompetitive behaviors are becoming less illegal and easier

At this point "vote with your wallet" is basically a delusion in contexts like this

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They don't even need to lock then, no one outside of tech are going to know how to switch AI provider, they are going to use their phone/computer default, be that google Gemini, Apple AI or Microsoft Copilot, same thing with browsers

> no one outside of tech are going to know how to switch

This made me think of Asimov's Foundation, the "Church of the Galactic Spirit".

Those who knew how tech works were priests. The rest of the populace were pure consumers.

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