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Lois McMaster Bujold pretty definitively argues for this in her Vorkosigan books.

The HTC Dream was the peak of Phone SSH.

There was no key combo I couldn’t input, no vim mode I couldn’t use!

There was a VNC client! I could RDP to Windows machines!

I could have even used EMACS!

I mean, I wouldn’t, I’m not some kind of monster, but I could have, and that’s what’s important!

“…if you’re lucky!”

But it wasn’t believable.

No one should have believed it.

People falling for the “scam” aren’t fooled, they are buying in to an ideology that they want to support.

Uh, every sandbox vehicle construction game?

Every factory optimization game?

I had to quit playing most of them because they each one could count as a second job.

Turning in her fictional grave.

I’m still waiting for John Carter 2…

Condescension means “patronizing attitude or behavior”; your comic doesn’t show condescension so you probably need the dictionary definition spelled out.

…/s

No, it’s okay if you combine them with pipes.

Ah, yes, the ol’ “X needs 300 of whatever it is I sell” gambit.

Their products are utter garbage to begin with, this can only hasten their well-deserved demise.