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> They want people who bought iphone to have the best experience they prepared for them. It's quite obvious that, to put it mildly, that's wishful thinking ins

> They want people who bought iphone to have the best experience they prepared for them. It's quite obvious that, to put it mildly, that's wishful thinking inspired by a heavily rose-tainted view of Apple. Meanwhile, Apple is known for their extreme price gouging complemented with extreme actions to stop even their very own customers from even repairing their broken products, let alone upgrade them to a usable state.

rmev 9y ago
>using meme arrows
- Qub3d 9y ago
  The "greater than" or right bracket is used as a standard inline quote symbol and has been since before image boorus or chans existed.
  - rmev 9y ago
    yeh, sure newheck
  - greenyoda 9y ago
    Yeah, I was seeing them used in text-based email and Usenet clients in the 1980s, and they're probably even older than that.
dijit 9y ago
Apples 'price gouging' is just smart business. How do you get people in the low end to buy your product. But get the best margin on the high end? The base model of their products are perfectly servicable and price competitive for the quality. They just know what the wealthier consumers are willing to shell out for.
- geezerjay 9y ago
  > Apples 'price gouging' is just smart business. Hooray Apple and its stockholders, but the consumer keeps on getting thoroughly screwed over and over again.
  - dijit 9y ago
    "dont hate the player, hate the game" Capitalistic tendencies in capitalist companies is not shocking.
    - dingaling 9y ago
      It's perfectly reasonable to hate the player for playing the game. Otherwise that's merely another form of 'just following orders'.
jandrese 9y ago
Apple basically doesn't compete on the low end for phones. The space is overwhelmingly dominated by Android devices. This also happens to be the largest segment by volume, which is a big factor in how Android devices sell in much greater numbers than iPhones.
- blackflame7000 9y ago
  The margins are much better on a $1000 dollar phone than a $200 one
snowwrestler 9y ago
> complemented with extreme actions to stop even their very own customers from even repairing their broken products Like what kind of actions? I can go to ifixit.com right now, order parts for my iPhone, order tools to work on my iPhone, and watch detailed instructions about how to repair my iPhone. (or Mac, or iPad, etc.) The products are NOT easy to work on, but I am not aware of any action that Apple has taken against individual customers who want to repair their own products. > let alone upgrade them to a usable state. Personally speaking, I'm still using a 2008 Macbook Pro today because I was able to order and install more RAM (even above the recommended limit), a new SSD, and a new cooling fan.
- atonse 9y ago
  You can't do that with a 2015 MacBook. Everything is soldered on. Are the iFixit parts genuine? I have no idea.
  - beenBoutIT 9y ago
    This is actually much better than their previous designs which had 'replaceable parts' that by design would generally destroy the motherboard when replaced by technically-inclined users or non-Apple repair people. Now there isn't an illusion of repairability bundled with a false sense of defeat upon encountering failure.
    - oarsinsync 9y ago
      I'm not sure it's better that GP wouldn't have been able to do what he did successfully, because other people might have failed thinking they could succeed. Just because some people might fail at certain tasks thinking they could perform aftermarket changes (so long my Palm IIIx and iPhone 3G) doesn't mean all people will fail at these things (wayhey hello new screen on my Thinkpad and significantly improved wifi on my XPS). Meanwhile my MacBook Air now gathers dust and I was forced to fork out significantly more money for a MacBook Pro just to double the RAM from 4GB to 8GB. There's only one winner there (well, arguably two, as I still got a new laptop out of it...)

rmev 9y ago

>using meme arrows

Qub3d 9y ago
The "greater than" or right bracket is used as a standard inline quote symbol and has been since before image boorus or chans existed.
- rmev 9y ago
  yeh, sure newheck
- greenyoda 9y ago
  Yeah, I was seeing them used in text-based email and Usenet clients in the 1980s, and they're probably even older than that.

dijit 9y ago

Apples 'price gouging' is just smart business. How do you get people in the low end to buy your product. But get the best margin on the high end? The base model of their products are perfectly servicable and price competitive for the quality. They just know what the wealthier consumers are willing to shell out for.

geezerjay 9y ago
> Apples 'price gouging' is just smart business. Hooray Apple and its stockholders, but the consumer keeps on getting thoroughly screwed over and over again.
- dijit 9y ago
  "dont hate the player, hate the game" Capitalistic tendencies in capitalist companies is not shocking.
  - dingaling 9y ago
    It's perfectly reasonable to hate the player for playing the game. Otherwise that's merely another form of 'just following orders'.

jandrese 9y ago

Apple basically doesn't compete on the low end for phones. The space is overwhelmingly dominated by Android devices. This also happens to be the largest segment by volume, which is a big factor in how Android devices sell in much greater numbers than iPhones.

blackflame7000 9y ago
The margins are much better on a $1000 dollar phone than a $200 one

snowwrestler 9y ago

> complemented with extreme actions to stop even their very own customers from even repairing their broken products Like what kind of actions? I can go to ifixit.com right now, order parts for my iPhone, order tools to work on my iPhone, and watch detailed instructions about how to repair my iPhone. (or Mac, or iPad, etc.) The products are NOT easy to work on, but I am not aware of any action that Apple has taken against individual customers who want to repair their own products. > let alone upgrade them to a usable state. Personally speaking, I'm still using a 2008 Macbook Pro today because I was able to order and install more RAM (even above the recommended limit), a new SSD, and a new cooling fan.

atonse 9y ago
You can't do that with a 2015 MacBook. Everything is soldered on. Are the iFixit parts genuine? I have no idea.
- beenBoutIT 9y ago
  This is actually much better than their previous designs which had 'replaceable parts' that by design would generally destroy the motherboard when replaced by technically-inclined users or non-Apple repair people. Now there isn't an illusion of repairability bundled with a false sense of defeat upon encountering failure.
  - oarsinsync 9y ago
    I'm not sure it's better that GP wouldn't have been able to do what he did successfully, because other people might have failed thinking they could succeed. Just because some people might fail at certain tasks thinking they could perform aftermarket changes (so long my Palm IIIx and iPhone 3G) doesn't mean all people will fail at these things (wayhey hello new screen on my Thinkpad and significantly improved wifi on my XPS). Meanwhile my MacBook Air now gathers dust and I was forced to fork out significantly more money for a MacBook Pro just to double the RAM from 4GB to 8GB. There's only one winner there (well, arguably two, as I still got a new laptop out of it...)