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A part of me agrees, but it does kind of feel like Apple is the trendsetter/gatekeeper for a lot of this stuff. Everyone crapped on Apple for removing the head
by tombert 3y ago
A part of me agrees, but it does kind of feel like Apple is the trendsetter/gatekeeper for a lot of this stuff. Everyone crapped on Apple for removing the headphone jack, or making non-replaceable batteries...and then quietly started doing all that themselves.
I am super happy that companies like Framework are getting some traction, and there's a fairly high likelihood that once my current Macbook breaks that my next laptop will be a Framework, but I also feel like Framework is still kind of a niche outlier; Apple seems to be the "test the limits of what customers will tolerate" company.
- sanitycheck 3y agoI do agree about a lot of the (IMO) backward steps being Apple's fault, and I support legislation on some things - a common charging plug is good (don't care what it is, USB-C is OK) and a common replaceable battery standard would be nice too. The headphone jack... Turns out people didn't care, or Sony phones would be a lot more popular than they are (I like them, I accept I'm not normal.) Framework is a niche outlier, but Dell isn't and you can get service manuals and spares easily for all their business laptops. Maybe people just don't know that? (Don't touch the consumer lines, obviously - and I include XPS in that.)
- tombert 3y agoI mean, honestly you can count me into that group of people who didn't care; I had been using Bluetooth headphones for years at that point already. I actually didn't know that business Dell laptops were easy to repair...I'll need to look into that.