Pirates dont exist in a vacuum. Paying customers can notice pirates and see they get the same stuff without the price. The customer is converted to a pirate. That's a lost sale.
It's entirely the opposite. Even actual PCs today are increasingly appified black boxes. We've wound up in a situation where anyone who got into computers between DOS and 98SE knows how computers work under the hood while everyone older OR younger than that is completely mystified.
That incorrectly assume that people who pirate would pay for it if they couldn't pirate it. Many times they won't.
They near-universally don't. ''Lost'' sales argument was always false.
I agree that many times they won’t, but to suggest that there aren’t any noticeable losses seems implausible.
Pirates dont exist in a vacuum. Paying customers can notice pirates and see they get the same stuff without the price. The customer is converted to a pirate. That's a lost sale.
Youth today are on par with boomers in technical literacy. Forget piracy, hell, running programs not on their chosen app store is beyond many zoomers.
You serious? I always thought ipad generation would easily pick up on programming and software.
It's entirely the opposite. Even actual PCs today are increasingly appified black boxes. We've wound up in a situation where anyone who got into computers between DOS and 98SE knows how computers work under the hood while everyone older OR younger than that is completely mystified.