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Complaining about overpriced/limited storage options in the iPad/iPhone is like complaining about overpriced/limited food options at a sporting event, airport o
by curun1r 11y ago
Complaining about overpriced/limited storage options in the iPad/iPhone is like complaining about overpriced/limited food options at a sporting event, airport or any other venue where you've got no other option than to buy from an approved vendor.
With lock-in comes higher prices.
- coldtea 11y agoThere's no lock-in what's at play here for most people. You can get a tablet/smartphone from several vendors, including Samsung, Google and Microsoft and people switch from iOs to Android and back all the time. It's not like apps are a huge investment or that it's hard to move your data across. These people WANT to buy the iPad/iPhone, instead of something else. So a more accurate response would be "with desirability come higher prices".
- simplexion 11y agoWe have students who WANT to buy Apple products like crazy at the school I work at. The majority of responses for why they want them is, "They look pretty."
- coldtea 11y agoWell, they do. But as a seasoned IT pro who cut his teeth on Sun OS and HP-UX back in the day, having a high end machine, with a great screen, great battery life and quite light to carry around that also has a friendly UI and runs a full blown UNIX underneath but also gets all major proprietary programs is nothing to sneer at either, pretty or not. There's a reason even Linus Torvalds carried a MacBook Air (though I think he found something even lighter now).