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You mean it will benefit Apple’s customers, who prefer headphones not made by Apple? If only the incentive for Apple to improve their interface was that its pay
by x3ro 10mo ago
You mean it will benefit Apple’s customers, who prefer headphones not made by Apple? If only the incentive for Apple to improve their interface was that its paying customers will have a better interface.
- stavros 10mo agoI really don't understand people who defend Apple on this. The only reason I can imagine is that they're shareholders who don't use any Apple products, or shareholders who use exclusively Apple products and can't understand what sort of poor scrub might want an accessory not made by them.
- darkwater 10mo agoIt's the second one, but without being shareholders.
- tt24 10mo agoStrange opinion. Anyone that holds the SP500 (which is probably 99% of HN users between 9am and 5pm PT) are Apple shareholders, and what’s good for Apple is entirely aligned with what’s good for them. Taking a further step back, this same group of HN users probably understands the straightforward idea that what’s good for Bay Area tech companies is beneficial to them in a much broader sense, since they’re generally employed by them or by a very small group of other companies closely related to them. You can accuse them of being greedy, selfish, or whatever, but certainly not that they’re unaware of where their interests lie.
- blell 10mo ago[flagged]
- stavros 10mo agoBecause a monopoly extracting 30% of every purchase you make is a dream scenario?
- tt24 10mo agoHow is Apple a monopoly?
- stavros 10mo agoThey own the only app store you can use on an iPhone.
- tt24 10mo agoOkay, using that definition, Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree, my local regional grocery store, Trader Joe's and Ralph's are monopolies as well. They own their shelves and store space, and are the sole arbiters responsible for deciding what is sold within them.
- stavros 10mo agoIf you have purchased your own Walmart and corporate still decides what you sell within it, then yes, that is exactly the same.
- tt24 10mo agoOkay, so it has to be something you purchase - we're slowly getting closer to the true opinion here. Sony is a monopoly as well then? They decide what gets sold in the Playstation store. Same with Nintendo. Ford and Tesla are monopolies, they solely decide what is software is sold or used in their car's infotainment center stores, despite the fact that I have purchased the car! AWS is a monopoly, despite the fact that I purchase an EC2 instance from them for one year they will not let me run certain kinds of software on it (Parler, some crypto, etc.)
- stavros 10mo agoIf you purchase a physical device, yes. You don't buy devices from AWS, you rent. I'm not sure what's hard about this.
- xandrius 10mo agoYou call it government intervention, we call it good government.
- Y-bar 10mo ago> always ends up catastrophically. Government intervention like forbidding led-based paints or asbestos in homes? Or government intervention like doing something about the ozone depletion? Government intervention like forbidding roaming fees? Intervention like requiring 3-point seat belts? Like progressive taxation? Like forbidding discrimination based on skin colour? Like air travel safety? Like a max ceiling on credit card fees? Always?
- kibbber 10mo ago>Like progressive taxation? Like forbidding discrimination based on skin colour? Ok, sometimes.
- Y-bar 10mo agoGive an example regulation which has objectively been catastrophic and where there has been no clear attempts at amending or improving it.
- kibbber 10mo agoI quoted a couple.
- RicDan 10mo agoIs this a bot account? Why is it green and spouting nonsense? There is nothing quoted in the previous comment
- chrononaut 10mo agoGreen users are recently created accounts.
- Y-bar 10mo agoPlease provide any tangible evidence that progressive taxation and prohibition on discrimination on the basis of race has been catastrophic.
- valesco 10mo agoHopefully this uniquely American push for dysfunctional government stays on their side of the ocean.
- hopelite 10mo ago[flagged]
- Y-bar 10mo ago> I don’t see it as a matter of defending Apple, it’s really a matter of technical understanding and competence. So do I. And my >20 years in the business gives me the experience and knowledge to see through Apple’s FUD. > […] but also wanting to benefit from all the work and focus that went into creating it, is understandable to me. It is my device. I paid for it. If Apple thinks they deserve more money for what they did they are free to ask me, the customer, for more money. > […] unelected bureaucratic despots Aha, the dog whistle of the AfD brand of conspiratorial bullshit ”unelected” nonsense! Career bureaucracy is supposed to be certified and educated, not elected, because that is the only way they can properly implement the laws of the electorate. Bureaucracy still answers to elected officials, but they are supposed to act without political interference and provide specialist knowledge. For the same reason you do not vote on every captain and colonel in the military hierarchy, or every tax collector/auditor in your IRS equivalent, you do not vote on every bureaucrat in the Commission tasked to execute and implement law.
- hopelite 10mo agoYou had me convinced that you were a self-absorbed narcissist at “it is my device” without any self-awareness about the fact that it is your device that you purchased as it is, under those conditions; not some fantastical conditions you imagined you should have. But you really just emphasized it with the AfD nonsense, as if everyone in the world cares about your little provincial political obsessions. “Eeek, the eradicated Italian ideology of 80+ years ago that I have been conditioned with basic Pavlovian techniques to hate to control my mind is coming for me”. Ever hear of the book 1984 and the purpose of Emmanuel Goldstein? You seem to have totally missed that they used that very same technique on you, they just templated a different event on your little mind. Are the commission popularly elected? No they are not, child. But do explain your narcissistic rationalization for how being not elected by the relevant populace makes calling them unelected nonsense. You can’t. Why are you so fixated on running interference for what amounts to being a cult? Do you personally benefit financially from it or something? Nothing else makes any rational, sane sense. At least if you financially benefit from your own subjugation to unelected tyrannical despots in the commission and the council, at least you can say you are corrupted, greedy, and unprincipled… if you have the confidence and character to admit it. But you lack the most fundamental understanding of how the EU and government, let alone different systems work or are suppressed to work, so I am not sure that your statements allow for any other conclusion than that you are deluding yourself either intentionally or in some belief that you can fool or gaslight me and others. Besides, let’s have you put on your own thinking cap for a second. Take off the mind control cap for a minute and put your thinking cap on. Ready? Do you think it is smart for the same commission that originates imaginary “legislation” that the parliament votes on like any other dictatorial system’s apparatchiks do, should also be the body overseeing the implementation of that law? It breaks the most fundamental and major human advancement in governance produced by separating powers through the Constitution. You said people should be educated. Forget government education for a second, you seem to lack the ability to think at all. Do you not understand the danger of the legislative also being the executive? It’s basically just a novel form of aristocracy you are defending, a regression, total conflict of interest in abusing power … which they aren’t even elected to. What has been done to your mind and all of Europe is commonly called a bait and switch, also known as coercive control in basic abuse patterns of toxic relationships. You’re quite literally just a textbook abused person rationalizing and excusing the behaviors and actions of your abusers, like someone in any other toxic relationship or a cult. Please reconsider the harm you are doing to the world and yourself too. I get the EU told you there was candy in the windowless panel van, but you have no idea what mistake you are making and are going to make others suffer for.
- vachina 10mo agonon-apple headphones work just fine with Apple products. In fact, Apple's bluetooth stack seem to work best among all the portable devices I come across (no random droppings, connects on first try etc.)
- geraldwhen 10mo agoI was unaware that my headphone experience as impaired in some way. I exclusively use non Apple headphones and I have no issues. I had AirPods for a while and I don’t remember them being better.
- array_key_first 10mo agoThey have nifty apple-only features, like you can hold them close to the iPhone and they'll pop up and pair with a neat UI. It's mostly gimicky, but it does give the user the impression that the apple Air pods are higher quality because they have all these things thought out. In actuality, Apple just made it so they're the only ones who can do that.
- eptcyka 10mo agoMy iPhone has plenty of trouble connecting to various devices at times. God forbid it has to manage connecting to my car and my headphones at once. It works OK most of the time, but at least once a week it proves to be a problem.