Let’s promis to only quote once per reply shall me? I don’t know how you’re doing it but I’m not going to write you a high school length essay with every reply. If you think I sound a bit two sides it because I am, every reply you make is doie of five different discussions.

Public malls, Your personal geographic experience of malls is limited and also irrelevant. Dial your mind back to the 1970s and turn off your adversarial mindset and I’m sure you’ll be able to make it work. Also malls are absolutely huge, and big booming business in some areas.

Cell phones - No, it’s hardware that didn’t require an extra subscription fee so that they could their expanded “infrastructure”. I can absolutely use a phone to make a phone call through numerous apps with just a wifi connection.

Now you’re changing directions to other products that did something entirely unrelated to what we’re talking about, in order to find some parallel in an entirely different market. We’re REALLY grasping at straws here now.

Again, it’s analagous to the “infrastructure development” of literally every other tech industry; and exemplifies how everyone else somehow expanded infrastructure, without additional subscription fees.

Feel free to leave if you’re not enjoying the conversation: or do I need to like… Send you $5 a month so you can integrate NOT clicking reply into your Lemmy experience.