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> When I buy a phone, it's a hardware product I'm buying. Not to me.
by lolsal 7y ago
> When I buy a phone, it's a hardware product I'm buying.
Not to me.
- computerex 7y agoWhat does that even mean? Can you elaborate at all?
- lolsal 7y agoI honestly don't care about the hardware at all. The hardware/camera/storage/whatever has been good enough for years. I care about the customer support, service, and overall UX of using the device. The fact that I can't side load apks or ipas is a feature to me.
- gatherhunterer 7y agoThis is where the comment goes into “my opinion is fact and dissenting opinions are wrong.” There are millions of Apple customers who get their preferred OS by buying hardware directly from the OS developer. This has been a viable business model for Apple for long enough to just laugh at that sentence. Hating Apple is an identity, like a political party, and some are too invested for their ego to allow for simple factual observations.
- lolsal 7y agoI'm not sure I follow you. I was just providing a data point that says some people don't care about the hardware - just like how I buy a car, I don't really care about the details and being able to 'drop in' a replacement HVAC or 'add on' features like neon lights/headers/whatever because those features are not important to me.