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they also inexplicably made the first iPhone 2G only! This has been one of the go-to plays in Apple's playbook since the very beginning. Steve Jobs was always
by chongli 7y ago
they also inexplicably made the first iPhone 2G only!
This has been one of the go-to plays in Apple's playbook since the very beginning. Steve Jobs was always opposed to Macs having any form of user-upgradable parts [1]; he wanted people to buy a brand new computer every time theirs became obsolete. As it happens, this occurred almost immediately after the Mac 128k's launch (almost no 3rd party apps supported it). The first generation iPhone was an exact repeat!
[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port.txt&characters=Steve+Jobs https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port....
- fuzzfactor 7y agoYes, like Microsoft, once they had established themselves as an engineering company with consumers of not-fully-developed product, they were then able to exploit the anti-reuse/recycling angle more lucratively than their engineering.