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    8 hours ago

    They were shit forever but it started to show during the Samsung vs Apple years. Jobs said he would go nuclear to not make Android a thing. Any company that want to control every aspect of your digital life is bad. It’s like a boyfriend telling his girlfriend, “you’re not allowed to have friends that are guys anymore. I’m the only man you talk to”. Not a perfect analogy, but it conveys the idea.

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    Apple has been a shitty company for a good 15 years now.

    Ever since they force the app store into their Desktop OS. There are certain signs a company gives when they’re become overly adversarial with customers.

    Right now Android are giving those signs.

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          One of my machines is a mac.
          They set up an app store many years ago, but it was never forced or required. Just install stuff the way you always did, and forget that the app store application exists.

          Or are you mixing it up with the developer signing thing? That shit was annoying, and needed a terminal command to disable.

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      7 hours ago

      Average consumer mindset.

      Bonus: see how much money I saved? This shit is worth £200 but I only paid £175!!!

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      24 hours ago

      The best thing Steve ever did for the world is try to fix his extremely treatable cancer with a fruit diet.

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        Rich entitled prick massively lucked out with an easily treatable form of pancreatic cancer, but killed himself anyway.

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      He was a fucking psycho who only cared about product quality, so if you were a customer, it kinda ruled. If you had any other interaction with him it was probably hell.

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        That’s not all he cared about.

        He also cared about manipulating entire markets to make everything more expensive to undercut any economies of scale and turn it all into profit at the customer’s expense. He was a goddamn pioneer at that.

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    Everyone loves apple. Until they get told their 2-year device that needs servicing is now ‘legacy’, and no longer supported/ serviceable.

    Seriously. I never had a laptop hardware failure before my mbp. Which cost 1.5x as much.

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      My Macbook M1 Air lasted 3.5 years before the logic board died. Although to be fair that’s longer than my HP laptops.

      The Apple representative though told me that support for the laptop would end in a year or two which is sad because it’s still a very capable laptop otherwise. Asahi Linux is a neat project, won’t help with firmware updates though.

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      22 hours ago

      I’ve never had this happen in 20+ years with Apple. I’ve had some crazy old devices go bad too; hell they’ve even replaced other random parts that were bad for no extra charge.

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    24 hours ago

    It’s definitely exploitative, probably fraudulent, customer service, but that’s not really planned obsolescence.