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"...that doesn’t mean it isn’t unconscionable for Apple to continue to sell outdated products to people who may not know any better" I may suffer from a lack o
by oldmanjay 10y ago
"...that doesn’t mean it isn’t unconscionable for Apple to continue to sell outdated products to people who may not know any better"
I may suffer from a lack of nannying instincts that make these sort of hyperbolic assertions hard to swallow. Is it a common impulse to want to save all those poor people from themselves for no particular reason? If they "don't know any better", it's pretty clear they don't have a personal reason to care, and this entire sentiment becomes rather condescending in that light.
- CydeWeys 10y agoIt's not about nannying, it's about Apple doing damage to their brand. They are the largest publicly held corporation in the world, yet a lot of their important brands are languishing and have become terrible values for the money because they haven't been updated in four years. I know very few people who have bought Apple PCs recently. I'm using a Macbook Pro Retina that I got in the 2013 refresh cycle, and if it were to get stolen tomorrow I'd buy a Windows PC to replace it because buying essentially the same laptop three years later for the same price makes no sense when the rest of the industry has moved on a lot more. As the "tech guy" in my extended family and friends group, a lot of people come to me for laptop-buying advice, and I haven't been able to recommend anything Apple in over a year.
- toodlebunions 10y agoIf you buy something new, isn't it reasonable to expect something is new? Not four years old and soon to be antiquated?
- kazinator 10y agoNo, it isn't reasonable. You can buy a "741" op-amp IC, and it's the same circuit on the silicon as it was in 1968. It's just "newly made". A new pair of jeans isn't going to have some amazing new development compared to the pair you had 25 years ago. Same YKK zipper, etc.
- toodlebunions 10y agoAre the jeans going to be antiquated and unsupported soon after purchase?
- kazinator 10y agoObviously yes. Trick question?
- copperx 10y agoHave you ever bought a TI calculator?
- toodlebunions 10y agoYes my 20 year old TI84 still works fine. Do you really think a new Mac is like a 20 year old graphing calculator? How about an iPhone or iPad? Nokia phone? Am radio? Is a Tesla different from a Ford model T?