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Apple under Tim enjoy short term gains and greed has blinded them. The company will soon start failing because of their anti-consumer and anti-environment cultu

Apple under Tim enjoy short term gains and greed has blinded them. The company will soon start failing because of their anti-consumer and anti-environment culture. They create false image of themselves to be super friendly innovative brand for creative people, but the truth is far from this. Their products are designed to fail and to be only repairable by Apple. If your charging port dies on a new Mac, you cannot repair it yourself even if you have all required tools and skills. Their policy is essentially if it breaks you have to pay us through the nose or buy a new model. Then there is the anti-competitive Apple Store that is milking the iOS ecosystem and developers.

D-Coder 6y ago
"Apple Doomed!" I have seen that headline every year since 1984. Every single year.
- necovek 6y ago
  Well, at a point it was pretty doomed before iTunes and iPod (and Jobs) brought it back. Who's to say it won't happen again? Though with the size and cash reserves, it's more likely they get "doomed" the way Microsoft was in the last 10 years (still is, perhaps).
supernova87a 6y ago
Sounds like you've got an axe to grind with Apple though, and are biased negatively because of it. Apple's products are demonstrably supported in software far longer than other manufacturers. People rate the physical build quality of their products very high as well. It seems that people like the benefits and features of Apple hardware enough to overlook the problems with self-repairability. And regarding the app store, maybe because you're in the industry you think it's a generally big problem, because you're affected. But it's a 1% privilege issue to most of the world. It seems Apple is doing enough right that its value is climbing.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  Yeah I don't like the walled garden myself, but the hardware I've bought from them has been well designed, supported for quite some time, and trustworthy. I never even had to get anything repaired. My line of work requires me to have both Linux and Apple machines and Apple is working just fine along with Linux.
Terretta 6y ago
Effectively nobody (measured as a percentage of buyers) wants to repair it themselves. Remember when TV and radio repair shops were a thing? RadioShack in the US or Tandy in Europe? Kids these days don’t...

D-Coder 6y ago

"Apple Doomed!" I have seen that headline every year since 1984. Every single year.

necovek 6y ago
Well, at a point it was pretty doomed before iTunes and iPod (and Jobs) brought it back. Who's to say it won't happen again? Though with the size and cash reserves, it's more likely they get "doomed" the way Microsoft was in the last 10 years (still is, perhaps).

supernova87a 6y ago

Sounds like you've got an axe to grind with Apple though, and are biased negatively because of it. Apple's products are demonstrably supported in software far longer than other manufacturers. People rate the physical build quality of their products very high as well. It seems that people like the benefits and features of Apple hardware enough to overlook the problems with self-repairability. And regarding the app store, maybe because you're in the industry you think it's a generally big problem, because you're affected. But it's a 1% privilege issue to most of the world. It seems Apple is doing enough right that its value is climbing.

stjohnswarts 6y ago
Yeah I don't like the walled garden myself, but the hardware I've bought from them has been well designed, supported for quite some time, and trustworthy. I never even had to get anything repaired. My line of work requires me to have both Linux and Apple machines and Apple is working just fine along with Linux.

Terretta 6y ago

Effectively nobody (measured as a percentage of buyers) wants to repair it themselves. Remember when TV and radio repair shops were a thing? RadioShack in the US or Tandy in Europe? Kids these days don’t...