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> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers. People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves. Appl

by shaan7 6y ago

> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers. People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves. Apple gets criticism because of the "weird" (for lack of a better word) restrictions on the products. I've stopped using a Mac for quite a while now - but I recall examples - when the first Macbooks came without a optical drive you could buy an external one. But it will only work with _that particular Macbook model_ (after googling around I found that you could send a magic SCSI string to make it work). There is no iPhone with a SD card slot - my dad _LOVED_ iOS and his iPhone 6S but he had to switch to an Android phone so that he can use a 500GB SD card to store all his photos (he wants _ALL_ his photos available locally on the phone, so cloud sync is not an option). I could go on. Apple makes some amazing products, but then adds quirks that makes the amaze short lived.

samatman 6y ago
I hear you. The headphone jack on the phone, I can actually see it. Not a lot of real estate inside a phone, and they wanted people to try AirPods (which I love, and might not have tried if it weren't for the missing jack). But... no headphone jack on a 13" tablet? I edit movies on there sometimes and I grumble every time I dust off the dongle to plug in a mic for voiceovers. But, no, people criticize Apple for everything they can think of. It's one of those companies where there's a set of people who, for whatever weird reason, have decided it's the enemy. They're against Apple and everything it stands for. It's strange, I think the only company I feel that way about is Facebook. Maybe because phones are the most intimate things we own, they become part of our identities?
- madeofpalk 6y ago
  > Not a lot of real estate inside a phone iPhone got thicker and bigger when they removed the headphone jack.
  - bigfudge 6y ago
    doesn't that reinforce the point? Space was needed for something else...
- layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
  >But... no headphone jack on a 13" tablet? I edit movies on there sometimes and I grumble every time I dust off the dongle to plug in a mic for voiceovers. This is especially dumb from Apple considering the number of pro audio apps marketed for the iPad that require the use of a wired connection for latency reasons. (no, Bluetooth audio will never have low enough latency for music production)
  - tekknik 6y ago
    these same pro users are likely going to need more than a single USB port and will likely have dongles with them.
- reportgunner 6y ago
  > They're against Apple and everything it stands for I think it's because Apple competitors try to copy the look and feel (round corners, hiding stuff away, make it convoluted to get to advanced settings to make the settings look less "intimidating") to try to pull Apple userbase and it waters down the experience for the people who are against Apple.
apexalpha 6y ago
Apple found out people were using SD cards to expand the storage on their Macbooks in stead of buying the higher storage options... few years later the SD card slot is dropped entirely. Even the immense photo and video/graphics userbase of Apple wasn't enough to stop the SD card slot removal. :-(
- mint2 6y ago
  Which model had the slot? Like the original? I started with the 5 and it didn’t have one but I’ve always been hampered by the lack of space.
  - OkGoDoIt 6y ago
    MacBook laptops had SD cards slots, or at least the Air and Pro models. iPhones and iPads never did, although there’s been a super awkward adapter available for iPad since it first came out, but it is super limited in what it can be used for.
Dennip 6y ago
To play devils advocate, I think from apples perspective they 100% don't want people using random SD cards they buy from amazon then calling up apple tech support for help when it fails/corrupts all their photos that weren't synced to the cloud, posting complaints online about how the iOS lost all thier photos etc... Although personally i think there still should be one, and a headphone jack!
artemave 6y ago
> People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves Apple prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrducts smetimes prrrrrevent them frrrrrrrrrm ding s

by shaan7 6y ago

samatman 6y ago

I hear you. The headphone jack on the phone, I can actually see it. Not a lot of real estate inside a phone, and they wanted people to try AirPods (which I love, and might not have tried if it weren't for the missing jack). But... no headphone jack on a 13" tablet? I edit movies on there sometimes and I grumble every time I dust off the dongle to plug in a mic for voiceovers. But, no, people criticize Apple for everything they can think of. It's one of those companies where there's a set of people who, for whatever weird reason, have decided it's the enemy. They're against Apple and everything it stands for. It's strange, I think the only company I feel that way about is Facebook. Maybe because phones are the most intimate things we own, they become part of our identities?

madeofpalk 6y ago
> Not a lot of real estate inside a phone iPhone got thicker and bigger when they removed the headphone jack.
- bigfudge 6y ago
  doesn't that reinforce the point? Space was needed for something else...
layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
>But... no headphone jack on a 13" tablet? I edit movies on there sometimes and I grumble every time I dust off the dongle to plug in a mic for voiceovers. This is especially dumb from Apple considering the number of pro audio apps marketed for the iPad that require the use of a wired connection for latency reasons. (no, Bluetooth audio will never have low enough latency for music production)
- tekknik 6y ago
  these same pro users are likely going to need more than a single USB port and will likely have dongles with them.
reportgunner 6y ago
> They're against Apple and everything it stands for I think it's because Apple competitors try to copy the look and feel (round corners, hiding stuff away, make it convoluted to get to advanced settings to make the settings look less "intimidating") to try to pull Apple userbase and it waters down the experience for the people who are against Apple.

apexalpha 6y ago

Apple found out people were using SD cards to expand the storage on their Macbooks in stead of buying the higher storage options... few years later the SD card slot is dropped entirely. Even the immense photo and video/graphics userbase of Apple wasn't enough to stop the SD card slot removal. :-(

mint2 6y ago
Which model had the slot? Like the original? I started with the 5 and it didn’t have one but I’ve always been hampered by the lack of space.
- OkGoDoIt 6y ago
  MacBook laptops had SD cards slots, or at least the Air and Pro models. iPhones and iPads never did, although there’s been a super awkward adapter available for iPad since it first came out, but it is super limited in what it can be used for.

Dennip 6y ago

To play devils advocate, I think from apples perspective they 100% don't want people using random SD cards they buy from amazon then calling up apple tech support for help when it fails/corrupts all their photos that weren't synced to the cloud, posting complaints online about how the iOS lost all thier photos etc... Although personally i think there still should be one, and a headphone jack!

artemave 6y ago

> People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves Apple prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrducts smetimes prrrrrevent them frrrrrrrrrm ding s