Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

  • Specal@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They do sell good products… Kinda. But they are professional scalpers and scammers. iPhones get their performance nerfed via software after a few years to force you to upgrade. They charge Quadruple price for ram upgrades in their laptops. Now they’re removing, not dropping support, but actively removing a feature that they themselves do not have to develop to stop you installing a feature on a device that you pay for.

    Apple do not make superior products, apart from the iPad that’s a genuinely superior product. They sell a walled garden that you have to pay continuous subscriptions to stay in. The subscription in this sense is their app store.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      My five year old iPhone runs like it did when I first got it, and I’ve never formatted it.

      • BReel@lemmy.one
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        9 months ago

        My dads iPhone 8 is finally starting to lose some of its battery life. But it’s overall performance is totally fine.

        I think a lot of people forget that most humans doesn’t need 100000000000gb of ram and 20trillion gbs of storage.

        I’m using 65gb of storage, including the os… on my baseline 128gb model.

        Most people aren’t editing 8k videos on their iPhones lol. They’re sending a text message.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 months ago

          Yeah seriously. This community hates Apple so much, but so many people here know nothing about their hardware or software. It’s really bizarre. I’m a Windows/Linux user, but I’ve got an iPhone because it’s the absolute best for longevity and privacy if you want a device where you don’t have to fuck about. I’m on my computers all day, I don’t want to have to think about my phone at all.