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Patient owns an iPhone, a MacBook, an iPad, AirPods, an Apple Watch, and, as of last Christmas, an Apple TV. The ecosystem has, in patient's experience, 'just worked.' Cannot, physically, switch to Android without replacing six devices. Has described the arrangement as 'organic.' The $4,700 in Apple spend over three years suggests a different verb. The walled garden is, apparently, the garden.
Chronic. Each new Apple device deepens the lock-in.
None. Exiting the ecosystem would require a sabbatical.
Patients with Severe Apple-Ecosystem Dependency typically present with some or all of the following:
Severe Apple-Ecosystem Dependency was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Hortus clausus apple inescapabilis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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