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My experience with an iphone had me convinced Apple=AOL. Less features, more expensive, and anti-consumer practices? This is the example of short term profits

My experience with an iphone had me convinced Apple=AOL. Less features, more expensive, and anti-consumer practices? This is the example of short term profits to drive up stock prices. Squeezing current users, spending limited money on improvements, and charging more money will work temporarily. That said, Nintendo has been doing this for a decade, and they somehow survive. Marketing might be more powerful than competition... EDIT: Due to HN whales(or apple marketing teams), Anti consumer practices- >Intentionally slowing down old OS >Proprietary connectors >Luxury pricing >Limited to App store and removal of apps >Limited hardware An argument could be made for 'safe apps', but the rest of that list is a hard 'No, that is bad for the user'.

Redoubts 8y ago
> Marketing might be more powerful than competition... Or infinite choice and configuration is actually an anti-feature.
millstone 8y ago
"Less features and more expensive" has been Apple's modus operandi for decades. So there's nothing short-term about that. I don't agree with "anti-consumer practices."
- Skunkleton 8y ago
  At least you don't pay for Apple products by having your personal information sold off, all so you can be manipulated into buying stuff you wouldn't have otherwise.
setquk 8y ago
At least Apple didn’t have a funeral for windows phone, switch the platform half way through pissing off every developer, stuff it full of telemetry and unreliable crap then can the whole platform and jump on the cloud all while deprecating specific handsets randomly for the hell of it. Microsoft are utter and total schizophrenic clowns in comparison. I spent years betting on windows phone getting mugged over and over again. My iPhone just bloody works. No other vendor has managed that yet.
21 8y ago
You can't be cool if you have any other thing than an iPhone/Macbook. It's as simple as that.
malshe 8y ago
"Intentionally slowing down old OS" One of the main reasons why I am not upgrading my iPhone 7 Plus this year is that iOS 12 has made it amazingly smooth. I have an iPhone 5S and even that's fantastically smooth with iOS 12. This is not my experience alone btw. So I think you are just making stuff up here.
- mr_overalls 8y ago
  > So I think you are just making stuff up here. Apple has admitted that they slow down older phones, due to battery issues. https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-slows-down-older-iphone-battery-issues/ https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-slows-down-older-iphone-batt...
  - malshe 8y ago
    Older phone != older OS

Redoubts 8y ago

> Marketing might be more powerful than competition... Or infinite choice and configuration is actually an anti-feature.

millstone 8y ago

"Less features and more expensive" has been Apple's modus operandi for decades. So there's nothing short-term about that. I don't agree with "anti-consumer practices."

Skunkleton 8y ago
At least you don't pay for Apple products by having your personal information sold off, all so you can be manipulated into buying stuff you wouldn't have otherwise.

setquk 8y ago

At least Apple didn’t have a funeral for windows phone, switch the platform half way through pissing off every developer, stuff it full of telemetry and unreliable crap then can the whole platform and jump on the cloud all while deprecating specific handsets randomly for the hell of it. Microsoft are utter and total schizophrenic clowns in comparison. I spent years betting on windows phone getting mugged over and over again. My iPhone just bloody works. No other vendor has managed that yet.

21 8y ago

You can't be cool if you have any other thing than an iPhone/Macbook. It's as simple as that.

malshe 8y ago

"Intentionally slowing down old OS" One of the main reasons why I am not upgrading my iPhone 7 Plus this year is that iOS 12 has made it amazingly smooth. I have an iPhone 5S and even that's fantastically smooth with iOS 12. This is not my experience alone btw. So I think you are just making stuff up here.

mr_overalls 8y ago
> So I think you are just making stuff up here. Apple has admitted that they slow down older phones, due to battery issues. https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-slows-down-older-iphone-battery-issues/ https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-slows-down-older-iphone-batt...
- malshe 8y ago
  Older phone != older OS