Me as well, just got tired of dealing with this sort of b.s. ...

I shall try to remember that one the next time I have to contact un-help-desk.

Well said and same... voting with my wallet

I've been a happy Apple uncustomer my whole life.

Same here. Left iPhone for Samsung and haven't looked back. Or a better way of saying, I haven't un uncustomer.

Not really. It suggests that a lot of their earnings growth in recent years is due to unrepeatable unnovation. For example they already started selling everything separately, so they no longer have that option available to them to extract more from their customers. Past earnings growth that can’t be replicated suggests slowing earnings growth going forward, suggesting that the company is overvalued.

You're not unnovating enough, they still sell phones with the OS preinstalled. Think ​@@SigFigNewton, think!

I think you nailed it. The only thing Apple I own that I am actually happy with is their stock. I hate that that is true but the other thing Apple is good a unnovating is their customers. As soon as I saw that "you're just holding it wrong" actually worked for their core customer base, I knew these people would buy anything Apple sold them.

@@billwestrick343 I wonder whether Apple share price will be higher in five years

@@billwestrick343 Somehow my sympathy for you is limited.

*Giving you less.* *Charging you more.* _- Apple_

"just be a good customer and buy your annual new phone" - Tim Cook, Apple CEO

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

Back sometime around 2015 I worked in a store where we’d also fix devices and home appliances people brought in. One day someone came in with an Apple mouse, and he couldn’t figure out how to swap the batteries out. I told him I’d take a look and make sure there’s new batteries when he returns. I couldn’t figure it out either, so started googling. Turns out you need to take it apart to switch out the two AAA batteries. And with taking it apart I don’t mean removing a screw. No, I mean actually tearing apart glued bits. The battery compartment was glued shut. So Apple produced a wireless mouse that’s charged with non-rechargeable AAA batteries, but no way to switch out the batteries once they’re empty without actually breaking parts off the mouse. I think Apple hoped you’d just buy another mouse. When the customer returned I told him what I found online, and his reply was “Wow, that’s so dumb.” He could hardly believe Apple would design something like that, but it really changed his opinion on Apple for the worse. He let me tear it apart to change the batteries and that did work, though, but it shouldn’t be that complicated.

i loved it, my boss got those for us. every now and then i just had a 30 minute break while the mouse charged

It was done on purpose, because the apple team didn't want photos of the mouse being connected to a cable go around, so they placed the charging spot so awkwardly that it's impossible to use the mouse while charging.

​@@StuermischeTage it was done on purpose bc they wanted the very slick look on the mouse. Thats why they added the mouse sleeve that lifts it up so you can charge it while using it instead of changing the design until later on from all the complaints.

​@@itzkibloComplaints after the fact, blindly buying a product without inspecting it or reading its specifications, instead of just not buying it in the first place. 😅

I mean the only designers who actually tried died off health problems because of overworking, Not to mention money cutting, it just thins down and leaving out worst of worst workers now for most part there. And! Not to forget even if there are actual great suggestions, they’re overshadow by “investors’ interest” instead.

Absolutely! The other companies see Apple's bottom line and think we should do that...

No lies detected!

Yeah but there is still hope, like new EU legislation that will reverse this bullshits and the right to repair act in US. Maybe just maybe things will improve soon.

Because people are stupid and will buy anyway, so when other companies se apple able to sell stuff at a high price while reducing the produciton cost, obviously they're gonna copy that they want to be a trillion $ company too

Sadly the other manufacturers do the same. My current thinkpad is the 3yo non-slim version, and is way slimmer than the 10yo slim one. Anything more flat than that and RJ45 will no longer fit in. (Also means their keyboards have less travel distance, thinkpads are still way better than average, but I would gladly accept a few millimetres more if it meant better cooling and more ports)

Indeed. I don't really see the point of having a thinner device when you are required to haul around a giant power supply, assortment of dongles, dock, mouse so you don't have to use the horrific trackpad (in before apple trackpads are actually good), etc. Inch thick laptops are fine, much thinner and shit starts getting far too delicate for a device that's supposed to be taken everywhere.

@@delimitnc Laptop power supplies have shrunken down recently when everyone switched to GaN. Still not exactly tiny, but very noticeable. (Doesn't invalidate the argument, we still need a bunch of adapters and/or a docking station of some kind)

@@Ph34rNoB33r True. I'm not even singling out Apple, either. I have a ThinkPad X13, and the power supply, while small compared to historical bricks, is still double the thickness of the laptop itself. Lenovo has also been on a port elimination crusade, though it's not been as vigorous as the one Apple's engaged in.

To be fair I actually came back to apple after the m1 because it was somewhat affordable even though not being able to upgrade storage is stupid but it's at least better than paying $2000, for something that overheats and has a malfunctioning butterfly keyboard

how is galaxy book 3 pro 360 or note 20 gonna be used for work then? for more precise handwriting than fingerwriting? is samsung shitty to you? to me: never

well I haven't had it break in a good two years of almost daily usage. still hate apple cause you need a phd to transfer files from your IPad to a PC.

That mother nature part made me facepalm when I saw it

Well my iPad is 4 and kicking, nobody forced me to throw it away

Every two years? What are you doing to your devices?

@@nickplays2022 dude, just google "planned obsolescence" and "apple", they didn't invent the concept but they certainly are responsible for aggressively advancing and popularizing its use in high-end consumer tech.

@@nickplays2022 and what if you devise get slower and slower because they made it slower with forced updates. so so you wont really notice it and on top of that they add a feature that you phone drain way more battery around a new devise release ;)

It was competitive compared to the stuff with the same tech. You could also buy any stand you want, it's a standard VESA mount. You don't understand the target audience, it wasn't the first apple monitor, it was a continuation of the older displays, Mac only, buttonless and so on.

@@retrocomputing "You could also buy-" Shut the h ell up right there. You know what didn't need me to spend any extra money on a monitor stand? The $600 HDR monitor I bought. It even came with with its own displayport cable! I wonder how they ever made a profit with such benevolence! No, YOU don't understand.

@@pootispiker2866 this is not for you, man. That's easy. Don't be angry at something that wasn't made for you. You don't understand the context of this display, nothing in your price range was comparable to it because it's niche stuff for pro application.

@@retrocomputing You're the reason why this industry is getting worse.

@@pootispiker2866 this industry? Industry of professional displays that you don't care about because you aren't a part of the industry? Alright pal

So that’s where ex Apple engineers ended up!

just looked them up, seems like you could do better with a cordless dremel and a special bit

they had no choice as Steve Jobs unalived himself (according to his biography, he unmedicated himself with sh*t)

But they really didn't since all of these issues with Apple quite literally began under the direction of Steve Jobs.

no where close to what they are doing today; back then, they were actually innovative

Tim "the bean counter" Cook is a downgrade! Thought Steve was a money hog till Cook became CEO!

Not sure about that. The last one had a factory deffect. This one already got past warranty the period.

it's like you can't even get apple car play on a freakin lexus (though newer models supposedly has them) so good thing we have an aux...oh wait lol

@@MrLuffy9131All modern vehicles have bluetooth per federal law so Carplay and aux jacks don't matter for media playback.

ALL These.. Streaming services...and no aux.

For the best part of 10 years now this has been a noticeable problem in the tech industry; people trying to fix things that aren't broken, changing things for changing-things-sense, with little understanding of why things were designed a certain way in the first place. Coupled with Apple's arrogance they they believe they are the ones to set standards. Goodbye FireWire & Lightning.

@@RichardLucas The iPod was a giant hit because it was well designed and simple to use. I tried the other MP3 players. The iPod blew them away across almost every metric. The combination of iTunes and the iPod was fantastic at the time and made using the device a lot of fun. That’s not “infantilization” that’s simply good design and user experience. Nobody gives a damn about “file types” as long as the thing just works. And trust me, just because a person knows how to use unnecessarily complicated devices or software doesn’t make them smarter! ;) I noticed lots of PC tweaker types think it does.

I know this is an old comment but to my understanding they made the wifi search-only probably because Airdrop needs it, same as bluetooth. And for the bluetooth if it is in search only it will help the AirTags to be tracked better since it gets more accurate by the use of other iphones. I still hated it and made a automation for it, but then, I dont have an iphone anymore. But I doubt they made it to drain your battery, since that would make no sense as they try to optimize the crap out of battery performance to not having to put bigger batteries in their phones.

​@@BlackSonicShadowIt's important to optimise for making claims of battery efficiency and life, but then bloat it up with additional software and features that make real life conditions much worse, so you wear out your non-replaceable battery sooner.

@@AndrooUK I assume you're not wrong. Although I do doubt that it was the main reason for this. I still have an iPad, and, compared to the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra that I now have, there is almost no bloatware on the ios device. On the samsung there were an insane amount of apps, and lots of them I couldn't even uninstall, only "deactivate". In the end though I am sure companies have shady ways to make the battery wear down, as its a good reason to switch device. it's just that I doubt that these are main reasons for that.

@@BlackSonicShadow at least with android devices you can access the bootloader and load a bloatware free version of android onto the device.

I'm a repair tech and I swear to got apples proprietary screws are always the ones that strip the easiest. No matter what I do my screw driver tip never registers well with Apples screws and I have to be really careful getting them out.

And on top of the new pentalobe, on the MBP 15", there's TWO different lengths of fastener for the base plate. Most are 3.0mm, but there's two stupid 2.3mm length screws. WWHWWHHWYYYYYYY does that 0.7, **0.7**!!! millimeter make that much difference??!?! MAKE THEM ALL 3.0! And then, they go back and use Torx T5 for the inside SSD screw.

Out of all companies I’ve observed as a consumer, Apple is possibly the most anti-repair company on the planet. They make it such a pain to become certified to repair their products and they only allow you to do certain repairs. The EU needs to rattle their cage like they did with the USB-C charging cause they deserve every L they receive.

And you still keep buying them?

Just swap the screens on two brand new iPhone 13/14 or 15. Popups galore "We do not recognize the screen as an original part" even though you just swapped it on two identical units, along with losing TrueTone. Oh, gawd forbid you break the earpiece ribbon, you'll even lose FaceID and other features. Replace any of the cameras and the phone blows up. It's absolutely nuts!

Fewer options

@@Danimal28 They were less, apple made them fewer. Think about it.

....and companies like these are behind the climate bs, because they are so friendly.

Capitalists: Let the market decide. Also capitalists: We'll decide what you want.

​@@PistonAvatarGuy Only a small portion of capitalists have a proper impact on their own. However: Monopolies dictate. Advertisements tell you want to do. Etc. Pretty normal for capitalism if you ask me.

and creates lots of e-waste by making their hardware as unrepairable as it can humanly get

They are not identical! >:[ They come with unnovations

Apparently the charger is the problem, which has no harmful chemicals so they take that away………

Don’t give them ideas!

It’s the iPhone shuffle

screens sold separately

Guess what - 99% of phones now have no keys. How's that for innovation? Your dedication to hating on apple is irrelevant. It is a wildly successful company with millions of loyal, enthusiastic customers. How many loyal, enthusiastic customers exist for microsoft and google? Not nearly as many. I support your freedom to hate, just know your hate is irrelevant.

​@@modernfiddler5475If their hate is irrelevant, why are you upset? It's true that Apple makes generally good products. The problem: Apple could be giving you something even better. Instead, they choose an "ecosystem" mentality - which translates to hostile, exclusionary design. If Apple spent their energy working for you - the customer - instead of playing mind games and maximizing profit, your Apple devices could be magnitudes better in both quality and design. If you like Apple products now, just imagine how much better they could be if only Apply was willing to put all that energy into actual innovation instead of cooperate chess.

Rossmann repair group fan detected.

​@@SensSwordThe bigger the blob, the better the job...

How else are they supposed to maximize profits for their shareholders?

@@dayjeremy With making quality products, to convince people with other phone brands to change to them?! But looks like they have a different strategy. Looks like they want to get rid of customers as fast as possible.

​@@nichderjeniche No, no, that's how you get things like people using their fridge and toaster from 1957 until now. That might be sustainable. Can't have that _and_ ever increasing quarterly profits

*Giving you less.* *Charging you more.* _- Apple_

It literally is a parody.

@@mvmlego1212How can it be a parody where literally every fact presented is true?

@@Mernom -- The concrete things that Apple has done with their product lines are true; it's the way that it's framed (a feel-good corporate promo that Apple definitely wouldn't write about itself) that makes it a parody.

Digital phone only, you buy a new phone for 3000$ from your current phone and it gets upgraded

new iphones will just be OS updates, because it's a miracle they didn't start charging money for OS updates until now

@@Ted_Kenzoku Great, it's people like you giving Apple the ideas, which make them the "great" company it is. =)

​@@A1stardanshhh... Don't give Tim ideas 🤫

No no, you'll purchase an NFT image of an empty box, duh.

Apple will do that bcoz people like u think apple if a symbol for luxury and style and shiwofff😅

@@AJ-zv7ng he fixed it for someone else, presumably, though

It's apple... If you want it then pay for it! Smart people buy Asian devices what last over 6 years without scratches or cracks, and should a accident happen the repair is in the area of 20 usd or 50 for a new screen, what's all better than Apple! And takes less than max. A day... Please be happy to pay more with our western politics. Pay more and get less. I'm smart I pay less and get more

I see this one as a legit improvement. The fake buttons don't tend to wear out and break nearly as much as the old mechanical ones do, they feel much nicer to push, and they're perfectly waterproof because after all it's just solid class. I don't hesitate to grab my phone when my hands are wet. I would never have done that with an older phone. Win win win.

@@AJ-zv7ng NOt just that. It actually works. I had Imac for 12 years .. no issues. Got imac pro few years ago it will probbaly outlast me. MY iphone 6 plus i was using for 7 years and only upgraded to 12 pro max.. still on 12 and will nto chnage soon. When there issue we go to Apple and they quikcly fix, like give us new phone , or fix damage. .. And yes software is the best, it actually WORKS. My days when i had to cut holes in my old win 98 tower to stop win from freeing are far over and i never look back. to go on win. In other words im too poor to buy none-Apple cheap products that need to be repurchased every year. or 2

Apple rubbing American

Sadly the new Apple mouse looks something more of R34 weird fetish thought up, instead of an actual design….. Who’s even in Apple as an employee on design or product teams now 💀

Im the 69th liker

I wonder if Apple will ever try to buy SAM’s channel for millionsss to shut him down, and whether SAM will accept the offer he cannot refuse.

​@@MP-vc4nuthey forgot to pay the quality testing team

I like the part where apple created the USB C and everyone else said that it was stupid and they won't use it because it's apple's design so apple kept using the thunderbolt until the rest of the world caught up. Good times.

@@WalkMrJ What is it with Apple fanboys that they keep pretending that Apple invented everything? No, they didn't invent USB-C. They were a small part of the development program, but that doesn't mean they invented it. They no more invented it than they invented the smartphone.

⁠​⁠@@WalkMrJand here I thought USB-C was developed by the USB Implementers Forum. Thanks to this random KZfaq comment, I now know it was actually all made by Apple.

​@@WalkMrJ what 💀

@@WalkMrJ Apple had just as much of a role in making USB-C as any other collaborator in the USB-IF. Kind of like Thunderbolt being an Intel invention that was reworked to be cheaper for license by Apple.

He says you look like a pedo. I stood up for you. I said, "At least he's an Android pedo."

Buy Apple and get scammed like no other.

I mean, the whole security thing also completely falls apart when you consider that adding the *option* to sideload doesn't mean that everyone suddenly *has to* sideload.

And those defending apple somehow think they'll be forced to side load apps when this gets added.

@@OleJanssen It's about money and control and nothing else.

@@fredrickbambino Most people are complete retards when it comes to technology, especially IPhone users, so they buy into whatever bs Crapple is telling them.

Their customer base does a lot of virtue signalling, which includes pretending to care for the environment, and so apple pretends as well to care about that. People who repair apple products have commented on the amount of waste they produce using apple parts, with packaging and what not. It's the side customers don't see, so apple doesn't care.

Glad that you pointed that out. From some of these channels, the levels of just flat out promoting a company are insane.. take all the recent tech youtuber and car youtuber videos about the Cybertruck. nothing but praise... even though issues have already been made public.

Yes. Apple needs to be held accountable for all the e-waste they produce and the tactics they use to require customers to constantly replace their products every year or two.

@@ProbablyLyingThere's more money in being a shill than in pointing out valid problems, unfortunately.

@@ProbablyLying Issues are 100% expected on the very first launch of a new product line, so people are more forgiving of fuckups, because it's a brand new product line, the company would have failed to hire proper advisors _somewhere_ and missed _something_ major and seemingly obvious. It could be worse. The Cybertrucks could be catching fire. Give it a few model years for all the negatives to be found, and for the company to have the time and money to correct issues, and fail to do so, and you can be as nitpicky as you like.

Yet still no calculator on ipads, solely because Jobs thought the calculator in the first ipad wasn’t aesthetically pleasing.

Just don't buy apple. My phone has a headphone jack.

@@nichderjeniche nah ... I don't need to buy apple to have their unnavative features. Thanks to them, all flagship phones from every brand (?) have that amazing unfeature 🥰 wohoo

​​@@diogoandrade6894that's not true. Again you just buy the wrong brands. There's more than Samsung, apple and Xiaomi

@@nichderjeniche dude you're missing the point forget it

@@diogoandrade6894 alright, keep buying Samsung and continue complaining... 🤪

I like to think that 2012 would have been horrified by the idea of losing the headphone jack and having to pay $129 for earbuds with the same sound quality they used to get for free.

@@Dpmt non removable batteries, planned obsolescence, iPhone 4 couldnt get signal if you held it in your palm. Plenty of unnovetion if you ask me.

@@illliiiiillliii6265 The classic Steve Jobs "you're holding it wrong" People like to give Tim Cook s*** and claim Steve Jobs was better. Steve Jobs was not better.

Yes. I guess they see the money Apple is making and how much they can get away with so they want to copy that.

Like Samsung first makes jokes about Apple and then copy all their shít

Because there is no competition. They're all competing for second place, Apple dictates the rules and sets the standards for tech pretty much. Everything from UX to hardware design to manufacturing techniques to supply chain logistics... Apple basically dominated the world by pioneering this stuff (and it's why Tim Cook is so effective, he's not as much an inventor as a business genius).

Apple is the KING of stealing the entire company is where it is today because of it.

You mean never right jaja

Didn't have a choice about that one. 😢

Steve Jobs downgraded himself from alive by ignoring medical science. Quite the unnovator!

someone once said that every business is basically "psychopathic" and Apple is the prime example of pushing exactly what makes a business psychopathic to the absolute extreme.

Then it was ruined with standardised formatting that even Microsoft embraced. 😉

What buttons? They got rid of the touchpad buttons. They made the arrow keys teeny-tiny, got rid of the home and end keys. You'd think we could at least get a touchscreen out of the deal.

My Dell has a singular touchpad but the left-right buttons are still independent under the singular thing, and still mechanical. Granted its a bit old, a humble Inspiron 15, but hey, still usable

One of the best laptop designs (and not by Apple) was the trackpoint. The nipple. And that was IBM, when they still made consumer devices. You could move the cursor without having to take the hands of the typing position. Combined with mouse buttons directly below the spacebar and you don't even need a touchpad. It's like a keyboard that can also fully navigate the mouse.

@@HappyBeezerStudios hmmm, maybe for small movements, but I never was a big fan of that miniature "joystick" slapped in the middle of the keyboard

@@username7763 Well at least the insert and delete keys work - oh wait, no they don't. But who needs to edit anything when you're using a mac? When you have a mac, you can just type gibberish and smugly assume that other people who can't figure it out are inferior.

Why you have windows xp???

@@conorrennard8628Because there is nothing better. That is the final upgrade!

They became obsessed with form over function and making everything ultra thin, so it needed to use all this custom hardware, which meant it could get thinner, which meant losing all the ports, which meant the dongles, etc etc. I love my work M1 MBP, thing is an absolute beast, but I’d never pay that kind of money for my own device. My company paid for it lol, and I won’t ever have to fix anything.

The G3 Pismo was perfect.

I can absolutely understand making the macbook air all about being slim. That's the whole shtick with it. It's supposed to be super light, like air. But the normal and especially the pro should be upgradable. Pro implies prosumer, someone who might do video editing, or rendering, or music production on it. The creatator side has always been a big part of the userbase. Because stuff just worked.

​@@HappyBeezerStudiosIsn't rendering literally the only use for MACs? Since the OS has terrible compatibility issues making them ill suited to general purpose use

Yeah I used my non-retina 2012 MBP for like 8 years. Tore it apart and put it back together several times to replace faulty (but easily fixable and acquirable) parts.

But apple silicon is the opposite of “univation” legit one of the first 3nm process computer chips and the M series are some of the first ARM based processors

@@Zembie1First ARM based processors? Really? We have had those since the 1980s...

To be fair, the M chips are legit awesome. Too bad they only work with fuggin Mac and osX/macOS. Even Linux doesn't work on that shit, tho there is a project...

@@Zembie1 Unnovation and innovation are two different processes so your use of the word "But" doesn't make sense. A company can do both.

There's a technical term for how companies become like that: Enshittification. Look it up.

he doesn't unnovate

Sometimes Samtime sums up my boring time😂

Wait, who demanded a receipt? The phone? Lol.

@@roflBeck Apple. They shut down the AppleID I created when moving the phone to a new account, then said I had to present the receipt to be able to get around this.

Did you buy it used?

People who work at apple will actually sell unlocking services unofficially for a few hundred euros. So it's not even a security thing. It does nothing to prevent stolen phones being resold since the phone thieves has insider deals to unlock the stolen devices. It only harms honest users.

Yes. I made an iPhone my primary for the first time ever a couple years back and was shocked at the amount of garbage in the app store. For being "walled", it sure does suck. I don't expect everything to be free like Android users used to, but it's nearly impossible to find "best in class" apps unless you do a separate Google search. I love my M1 Mac Mini, but if it didn't allow me to install software from outside the junky app store, I'm not sure I'd love it so much. On the Mini, I struggled to find a good audio player similar to Media Monkey and still really haven't. Don't talk to me about the pathetic built-in Music app.

wtf is bung, did you mean bing

@@Shvetsario put, throw, dump, place, ....

Wait, can you tell me about the Apple warning thing you mentioned?

Gotta admit I really liked that one. It was so tiny, but still had more storage than many larger models. One button for on/off/shuffle and the rest just on the headphones, which was a lot more convenient when cycling. Might also help that it was a Christmas present, so I didn’t actually pay for it.

Do you know that there was a reason that Steve Jobs wasn’t CEO anymore right?

Technically, they upgraded their CEO. Apple is now making much more money.

I do like Tim. I think overall he’s done a great job.

@@Zembie1because he earned billions of senseless bucks and not invested them in needed medical researches?

At least nobody stops you from buying from other companies

@@nickplays2022 no but unfortunately when the majority of consumers blindly make bad choices regularly then that does impact intelligent consumers. Whether that's seeing Apple cause an exponential spike in the prices of high-end flagship devices or the removal of standard features like a 3.5mm audio jack...people like yourself who continue to choose poorly actually negatively impact life for the rest of us because unfortunately for people like me, people like you are the majority.

@@beowulf1417 Yes. Apple does it, and by golly Samsung has to follow. Samsung phones had a headphone jack and micro SD slot forever, plus more affordable beautiful high-end devices that included nice corded earbuds. Now Samsung is on the no accessories train and competing with Apple for ultra high prices.

​@@beowulf1417except buying from other companies *isnt* a poor choice.

​@@beowulf1417and then laughably try to defend their purchases, because it's not about the device they bought to carry out a task. It's about being seen with apple products.

Yes, I don't know why Apple don't simply declare their devices are really just rentals until they refuse to support them any more.

I’m an apple fan, but I watched a recent video summarizing their iPhone 15 event and I scoffed at them presenting the USB C as a move they’re doing now and how they’ve been upgrading their products with usb c for years! As if it was something they wanted to do all along.

Their product is a sense of status. People happy to be exploited if they’re convinced a competitor product would make them appear inferior to other people.

@@SigFigNewton it’s definitely less about that and more about receiving value from the features and the ecosystem. I’ve never been forced to buy an apple product. I gifted and received apple products this Christmas. Each of us sat down and looked over the features and were amazed, especially me, at how well everything synced up and how well each of the products “talked” to each other. From a phone, to the watch, to AirPods, they work so, so well together.

@@thecapone45 super easy, like connecting my $15 wireless earbuds. Somehow I doubt I’ll have to replace them ten times as often as AirPods. Goin strong

Also getting people to rave over the latest brand new features - which PC and Android users have been using as standard for 5+ years.

Tesla doing this :) sot Apple will start the same practice soon

They did for iPods

That makes sense. Updates make iOS slower, convincing you to bring another sacrifice to stay up to date.

What you’re missing is that the technology Apple uses is far more secure. Android 4 added camera-based facial recognition. It’s convenient but it isn’t secure. That’s why you couldn’t use it to authenticate Google Pay payments for example. Google themselves didn’t deem it secure enough because it could be easily deceived. What Apple uses is 3D infrared facial recognition, which is vastly superior in security and versatility. It can be used in many more lighting environments and is much harder to deceive, which is why it can be used to unlock banking apps or authenticate payments. So no, it hadn’t been around for years.

@@alanharper23 common apple cope. "It offers privacy and security" 🤡

​@@GMPranav I mean, it's a fact. The tech introduced in Android 4 is not the same tech as FaceID. Camera-based facial recognition can be deceived by photos and doesn't work in poorly-lit conditions because it relies on visible light. 3D infrared facial recognition doesn't have those issues. So yes, it's more secure. It's not an Apple vs Google thing. Several other Android phones have used 3D infrared tech before. Like the Pixel 4 or the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Check out Android Authority's facial recognition info page if you wanna learn more.

Apple girl at work has adapters for HDMI, often they fail to work and she keeps hassling me to fix it. Get a normal laptop with a real full size port. Thin looks great but then you have to use it.

Imagine using USB-A 🤢

@Zembie1 It's nice to have it in case you need it. I use it for USB sticks to upload a fresh install of Windows or Linux with every new laptop. Otherwise, USB Type C ports.

@@Zembie1 Most mice and keyboards still use it.

I saw this coming and started transitioning from USB-A to USB-C early last year. Every cable I’ve bought in the past year has been USB-C. I also picked up a couple of those USB-A to USB-C gender converters.