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Truly though, has there been another company which has produced such consistently high-quality consumer products over a 30+ year timeframe? I think there's a ve

Truly though, has there been another company which has produced such consistently high-quality consumer products over a 30+ year timeframe? I think there's a very real to be made for Apple zealotry; there really isn't another company like them.

bun_at_work 6y ago
It's true for the most part. They really do produce good quality products. The markup reflects the branding, true, but that's OK if the products are good. I wish Apple had a competitor in the US. Google competes with software and phones, but is losing the phone battle hard. Microsoft puts out an operating system that is too busy making sure legacy software from 1995 still runs. All (most) of the hardware "competitors" run Windows and can't compete on the performance side. We need a company that produces their own hardware and operating system that competes with Apple, I think.
- fsflover 6y ago
  Not the scale of Apple, but: https://puri.sm/products https://puri.sm/products
  - zepto 6y ago
    That’s not a competitor. Here is a review: https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2020/12/06/Librem-5-Evergreen-vs-Pinephone/ https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2020/12/06/Librem-5-Evergreen-vs-... TLDR: If you want to join a community of people who are interested in working on a competitor, buy one of these, or a pinephone. I strongly encourage people to buy these and contribute, but don’t expect them to work as a daily driver.
cestith 6y ago
My Betamax VCR, my NES & SNES, my Realistic pocket radio, my microcassette recorder, my Matsushita 2X CD-ROM drives, my Tandy Color Computer 3, my DECMate III, my IBM PC 5150, my Toshiba Libretto, my Sony CD boombox, my ATI Mach-8 & Mach-32 video cards, my multiple XT & AT keyboards, and my A/V receiver with the built-in 8-track recorder would suggest maybe other companies are capable of it, yes.

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Truly though, has there been another company which has produced such consistently high-quality consumer products over a 30+ year timeframe? I think there's a ve

by honkdaddy 6y ago

bun_at_work 6y ago
It's true for the most part. They really do produce good quality products. The markup reflects the branding, true, but that's OK if the products are good. I wish Apple had a competitor in the US. Google competes with software and phones, but is losing the phone battle hard. Microsoft puts out an operating system that is too busy making sure legacy software from 1995 still runs. All (most) of the hardware "competitors" run Windows and can't compete on the performance side. We need a company that produces their own hardware and operating system that competes with Apple, I think.
- fsflover 6y ago
  Not the scale of Apple, but: https://puri.sm/products https://puri.sm/products
  - zepto 6y ago
    That’s not a competitor. Here is a review: https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2020/12/06/Librem-5-Evergreen-vs-Pinephone/ https://thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2020/12/06/Librem-5-Evergreen-vs-... TLDR: If you want to join a community of people who are interested in working on a competitor, buy one of these, or a pinephone. I strongly encourage people to buy these and contribute, but don’t expect them to work as a daily driver.
cestith 6y ago
My Betamax VCR, my NES & SNES, my Realistic pocket radio, my microcassette recorder, my Matsushita 2X CD-ROM drives, my Tandy Color Computer 3, my DECMate III, my IBM PC 5150, my Toshiba Libretto, my Sony CD boombox, my ATI Mach-8 & Mach-32 video cards, my multiple XT & AT keyboards, and my A/V receiver with the built-in 8-track recorder would suggest maybe other companies are capable of it, yes.