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It's been clear for a couple of years now (to me) that Apple devices have become a sales platform for Apple services. It first started when I was constantly get
by boplicity 4y ago
It's been clear for a couple of years now (to me) that Apple devices have become a sales platform for Apple services. It first started when I was constantly getting notifications that I was "running out of space" and needed to sign up for paid iCloud services. This, in fact, when I had plenty of space on my Macbook.
Such things have only continued. They're adding new products and paid services at a slow but steady pace, and regularly sending me notifications to sign up for those services. When you "upgrade" the OS, you're confronted with a whole slew of opportunities to sign up for more services, with no way to just ignore these prompts. I don't blame them for doing this, but it's become increasingly grating, and turned me off of Apple in general.
Like a lot of companies, they're focused on growing their bottom line, and don't see how they're angering their locked-in customers.
- turdit 4y ago“they… don't see how they're angering their locked-in customers.“ yea those apple employees are so stupid they have no idea that nagging you constantly is annoying. no of course they just don’t care about other people including their customers. although to be fair sociopathy is essentially just another form of stupidity
- el_dev_hell 4y ago> although to be fair sociopathy is essentially just another form of stupidity Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this?
- samatman 4y agoI get more storage than I need, unlimited music, and a comical excess of games, for less than Netflix a month. It's all seamless and I rarely think about it. Yeah I could spend Apple prices for Apple gear and not get the cloud stuff but. Why?