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There are people like me that can afford an expensive phone or computer but keep using their 5 years old devices, even as a developer there is no justification

There are people like me that can afford an expensive phone or computer but keep using their 5 years old devices, even as a developer there is no justification to run the latest 32 core Threadripper or latest CoolPhone (you could say as a dev you should feel how stuff runs on medium spec devices). Anyway you classified most Apple users as rich people that can throw away 500+ dollars and don't care about environment . Sure there are some rich Apple users , and people that are into Applo as an identity but I assume not all as you, I mean it was proven with the keyboard issues, with the battery issues , with the GPU issues - some fanboys blamed the users but in the end the majority did not bought a new device but forced Apple (sometimes with the help of the justice system) to fix their devices and be transparent about stuff. But sure, throw away a good laptop when a key is broken, be proud of it too , let us know how much money you have and how much you hate right to repair.

dijit 5y ago
There is a Swedish.. uh... "Tradition"? in Stockholm called "Vaska"[0]- basically the point is to buy a really expensive bottle of alcohol and pour it out. Why? Status. It's pretty universally reviled by the rest of Sweden; but people do it. The same is true of Apple devices, some people buy the latest one every year; but much like consumers of alcohol, the people who buy the yearly phones are in the small minority, just like the people who "Vaska", and both are similarly reviled by the other consumers of those products. [0]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vaska https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vaska
yoz-y 5y ago
I think the keyboard fiasco has shown the opposite. Apple did cave in, eventually, but it still took three years. The keyboard were definitely a huge problem but enough people didn’t care for apple to keep the keyboard for a whole cycle.

dijit 5y ago

There is a Swedish.. uh... "Tradition"? in Stockholm called "Vaska"[0]- basically the point is to buy a really expensive bottle of alcohol and pour it out. Why? Status. It's pretty universally reviled by the rest of Sweden; but people do it. The same is true of Apple devices, some people buy the latest one every year; but much like consumers of alcohol, the people who buy the yearly phones are in the small minority, just like the people who "Vaska", and both are similarly reviled by the other consumers of those products. [0]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vaska https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vaska

yoz-y 5y ago

I think the keyboard fiasco has shown the opposite. Apple did cave in, eventually, but it still took three years. The keyboard were definitely a huge problem but enough people didn’t care for apple to keep the keyboard for a whole cycle.