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> Every, and I mean every, Apple product I have ever owned has had major issues, including basically becoming bricks, all on their own. You should buy a lotter

> Every, and I mean every, Apple product I have ever owned has had major issues, including basically becoming bricks, all on their own. You should buy a lottery ticket with some of that hyperbolic bad luck.

bmitc 5y ago
I don't think it's bad luck. I think it's Apple not caring about how long their products last or how robust they are. Many of these issues are well known and reported but rarely unchanged between models. I simply gave my own personal experience, stated as such, and am heavily downvoted, so it's hard to believe Apple cult followers about anything regarding their products. Apple is devilishly brilliant at marketing.
- abc_lisper 5y ago
  As a counter argument none, not one of their devices failed on me in 15 years, and I bought a lot
- jsjohnst 5y ago
  >> including basically becoming bricks, all on their own. > I don't think it's bad luck I’ve owned around 30 iPhones, 20 iPads, 10 iPod Touches, 8 Apple Watches, 15 MBPs, 4 Mac Pros, 2 iMacs, 5 AirPods, etc etc putting them through hell in many cases (including testing unproven baseband, iBoot, and other firmware exploits), yet have never had an Apple device “basically become a brick, _all on their own_”. So either I have the worlds best luck, or my point stands about yours. I’m not calling you a liar, but at minimum your comment was hyperbolic.
  - richardwhiuk 5y ago
    30 iPhones? What you doing with them? Eating them?
    - jsjohnst 5y ago
      The number is actually a bit higher than that actually, but there’s at least 30 that I know where they are. The 7 generations after the first one (aka 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5S, 5C) had multiple different baseband variations and for several reasons (one of which I previously mentioned) required me having one of each. After I was done using them and had restored them to stock (always kept at least one of each generation jailbreaked though), I’d rent them out to friends who lived in SF/NYC who needed to test their apps on older versions of phones or with specific OS versions (as back then, I could install almost any OS version on demand). I made enough doing that to continue my trend of buying multiple of every generation up to the iPhone 8. Around that time factors changed and beginning with the iPhone X, I started buying just one from each generation. So long story short, that’s one way that someone ends up with lots of iPhones.

bmitc 5y ago

I don't think it's bad luck. I think it's Apple not caring about how long their products last or how robust they are. Many of these issues are well known and reported but rarely unchanged between models. I simply gave my own personal experience, stated as such, and am heavily downvoted, so it's hard to believe Apple cult followers about anything regarding their products. Apple is devilishly brilliant at marketing.

abc_lisper 5y ago
As a counter argument none, not one of their devices failed on me in 15 years, and I bought a lot
jsjohnst 5y ago
>> including basically becoming bricks, all on their own. > I don't think it's bad luck I’ve owned around 30 iPhones, 20 iPads, 10 iPod Touches, 8 Apple Watches, 15 MBPs, 4 Mac Pros, 2 iMacs, 5 AirPods, etc etc putting them through hell in many cases (including testing unproven baseband, iBoot, and other firmware exploits), yet have never had an Apple device “basically become a brick, _all on their own_”. So either I have the worlds best luck, or my point stands about yours. I’m not calling you a liar, but at minimum your comment was hyperbolic.
- richardwhiuk 5y ago
  30 iPhones? What you doing with them? Eating them?
  - jsjohnst 5y ago
    The number is actually a bit higher than that actually, but there’s at least 30 that I know where they are. The 7 generations after the first one (aka 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5S, 5C) had multiple different baseband variations and for several reasons (one of which I previously mentioned) required me having one of each. After I was done using them and had restored them to stock (always kept at least one of each generation jailbreaked though), I’d rent them out to friends who lived in SF/NYC who needed to test their apps on older versions of phones or with specific OS versions (as back then, I could install almost any OS version on demand). I made enough doing that to continue my trend of buying multiple of every generation up to the iPhone 8. Around that time factors changed and beginning with the iPhone X, I started buying just one from each generation. So long story short, that’s one way that someone ends up with lots of iPhones.