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> I know a lot of people who own Apple devices and a lot of them had problems. But no own ever said that “Apple screwed” them. That's the point he makes in thi
by dschuetz 8y ago
> I know a lot of people who own Apple devices and a lot of them had problems. But no own ever said that “Apple screwed” them.
That's the point he makes in this video. People pay $2k+ and still have to pay for repairs of greatly designed and poorly engineered products. Seriously, that's a commonly known practice called rip-off. I simply cannot understand people's minds defending Apple's engineering. It's an incomprehensible cognitive dissonance.
Apple designs great products, sure, why not. But when engineering decisions have to take a seat behind design decisions? The fanboys see just the great product and irrationally defend any criticism on bad engineering. Sorry, that's just silly.
- willtim 8y agoOften it's the ideas that are the cause of the problems, for example: magsafe required an extremely thin cable leading to fray (85 UK pounds for a new adapter), or the "magic mouse" that required raising ones right finger in order to left click. The new super-shallow keyboard is the latest flawed idea. Luckily my wife hasn't got one of those.
- dschuetz 8y agoYou see, that's my point. When products are super-designed to the extent that excellent (thus very expensive) engineering is required to make them last longer, Apple does an excellent job keeping the engineering budget low. While keeping the design strategy constant: thinner, lighter, finer. At some point Apple hits a breaking point (those in the videos). Their handling of the problems is highly questionable, because they chose design over good and lasting engineering and refuse to take the responsibility. Apple products are throw-away products nowadays. Yet they refuse to admit even that (they built even a recycling robot for their devices!).