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As a Mac Loyalist I don't feel at all alienated. I am not merely a consumer and my life is more than the computer I use. I don't need or want constant attention
by optimuspaul 10y ago
As a Mac Loyalist I don't feel at all alienated. I am not merely a consumer and my life is more than the computer I use. I don't need or want constant attention. I think what they've been doing it great. Frankly I'm more annoying with the bloggers and media with their constant bullying of Apple. The iPhone 7 had just been announced and they were already speculating what the iPhone 8 was going to be. WTF? How about we give it some time before we start down that road.
- elliotec 10y agoIt appears you are in the minority. Apple has disenfranchised a lot of loyalists for a lot of reasons. Think of how absurd it is that you can't even plug in your new iPhone 7 into your new Macbook Pro.
- dkonofalski 10y agoWhat, really? What happens when you plug it in? Does it tell you that you can't use it? Does it lock you out? Does it brick the phone? Ohhhh...you meant that you have to get an adapter. Of course you can plug the phone into the new MacBook. The only thing that might be absurd is that you might need an adapter to plug it in but, in reality, there's nothing that you'd really need to plug it in for anyways except to charge it and you get a power brick with every phone.
- elliotec 10y agoIt is completely absurd and user hostile that you need to buy an adapter to plug it in. I charge my phone in my laptop often.
- dkonofalski 10y agoThe phone comes with everything you need to charge it. It is neither absurd nor user-hostile. Inconvenient, maybe. Annoying, yes. Anything else is an exaggeration.
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- elliotec 10y agoI mean, you're pretty wrong about this, but that's ok.
- dkonofalski 10y agoHow am I wrong? The phone comes with a charger and a power block. Unless you want to clarify, your statement means nothing.
- rnet85 10y agoYes, you've to get an adaptor, but when I've invested thousands into their ecosystem there is a certain level of expectation that their products work integrate seamlessly without such hassles.
- dkonofalski 10y agoThey do. You don't have to plug in an iPhone to the computer to do anything, unless you're a developer. The majority of people using the iPhone and the new Macbook have no need to plug it in.
- elliotec 10y agoPS, most of us here are developers.
- dkonofalski 10y agoOf course and that includes me. We need to get better, though, and realize that our needs are not representative of everyone that might purchase a tech product.
- blackrose 10y agoIt's called "batteries not included" and it's a shitty thing to do as a company when you're selling a several-hundred-dollar device. Seriously? They can't include a $19 cord?
- sixstringtheory 10y agoTo build and deploy an app from Xcode to a phone, it must be plugged in. For how much money the app ecosystem brings Apple, they sure don't throw the developers many bones.
- dkonofalski 10y agoWhile I agree with your sentiment, developers are a very, very small subset of the population that uses Apple products.
- 1_2__3 10y ago"Bullying"? Come off it.
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- href 10y agoI feel the same. I am as happy with my Apple products as I've ever been. That does not mean they are perfect of course. It merely means I like them.