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I love the "This is our best $PRODUCT yet", duh is there a company making worse products every iteration?
by drexlspivey 3y ago
I love the "This is our best $PRODUCT yet", duh is there a company making worse products every iteration?
- hkgjjgjfjfjfjf 3y agoFord
- gnicholas 3y agoI believe you mean GM, which is getting rid of CarPlay and Android Auto.
- twobitshifter 3y agoFord https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUkFsuilVD0&t=2s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUkFsuilVD0&t=2s
- mr_toad 3y agoA car manufacturer forcing you to buy a particular model of car stereo used to be a textbook example of anti-competitive bundling.
- thatguy0900 3y agoThere's a lot of instances of brands being bought just to slowly milk into the ground by the new owners
- jcrash 3y agoMicrosoft
- TylerE 3y agoThere are a lot of days I'd be strongly tempted to answer that with "Google", but that's unfair since they usually just kill the product rather than actively making it worse.
- diego_sandoval 3y agoGoogle search is now worse than it was 6 years ago.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoI swear sammy fucks up the battery every other year on purpose just so they can say it's bigger next year.
- macNchz 3y ago> is there a company making worse products every iteration? Very many companies that built a brand around quality before being quietly sold to a private equity firm are doing just that, to maximize profits for as long as they can while the brand still has a good reputation. It can be really obvious if you’ve owned a quality product for many years and then go to replace it, only to see that the current rendition is effectively a cheap knockoff.
- etrautmann 3y agoAlso many hardware startups will launch with amazing build quality and then push out a cost cutting v2 product.
- paxys 3y agoThey also said that with a straight face when they removed the headphone jack.
- TylerE 3y agoand guess what? People use bluetooth headphones these days and much perfer them to the rats nest of cables that used to be cheap earbuds.
- paxys 3y agoPeople have had the option to use bluetooth headphones since 1999. Removing the headphone jack from iPhones wasn't some revolution. Apple simple took away a choice.
- vel0city 3y agoI personally know a lot of people who didn't realize wireless headphones were a thing pre-Airpods. They seriously thought Apple created that market with the first wireless headphones. I imagine a lot of people didn't know or think about wireless headphones until Apple made it a thing.
- imiric 3y agoBluetooth audio was awful for a long time, and not a serious replacement for wired headphones until very recently. It's clear that companies remove the jack to simplify manufacturing and cut costs, but at least BT headphones are usable nowadays. So as much as I disliked the trend when Apple started it, I'm not as annoyed by it anymore. Save for the hassle of BT pairing, which can sometimes be wonky, but this isn't an issue on Apple devices, AFAIK.
- fomine3 3y agoIt's "courage" :D
- layer8 3y agoThere are many examples in the software space.
- manquer 3y agoThey mean it is their flagship product , performance is not the only innovation companies do , it could be cost or something else. Apple wouldn’t say the same at a SE release event
- babypuncher 3y agoOthers have already brought up Google. I'll mention GM, since they are taking CarPlay and Android Auto out of their new vehicles so they can charge a subscription fee for worse versions of the same features your phone already provides for free.
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