• AtariDump@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          What did they do? Prevent it from randomly shutting down? Because I’ll take a slower phone or a random hard shutdown any day of the week.

          Was it wrong? Yes. But what else does any handset manufacturer do?

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            8 months ago

            It’s useless, folks here will never believe that other devices do the same thing. I think they’d rather just have their device shut down at 25%.

            On my original battery five years into having this iphone and it’s still screaming fast…

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                8 months ago

                Here it’s just “someone enjoys iOS?! NOT ON MY WATCH”

                I’ve got three Linux machines, six? Maybe seven? Windows machines, and I love the shit outta my iPhone. I was a first-adopter of Android with the Dream and loved it. But when I realized iPhones can last for 5-6 years with full updates AND STILL BE FAST with no effort, reformatting, or thinking about them… that’s all I want from a phone.

                That and the privacy is better. It’s not perfect, but it’s lightyears better than ANYTHING google.

                But on Lemmy, that makes me a baby toddler noob that knows nothing about computers, because if I just got this google device and did all of these mods to it and installed all this software and maintained it and BRAINED HARDER I could have a similar experience to my five year old iPhone

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      8 months ago

      The tech inside is great, but Apple also knows its customers are happy to pay a hefty premium over cost. I hate Apple but they are amazing at branding at end of day.

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        8 months ago

        Apple are almost certainly planning a non “pro” model that will be much cheaper and the pro’s high pricing drives discussion, exclusivity, which leans in on their aspirational brand modus. Thus, the non-pro model will likely have absurd sales as people rush to finally buy in at their price level.

        I don’t support it or like it but Apple have been following this playbook for decades now and unfortunately it really works.

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          8 months ago

          It’s also easier to engineer the thing first without heavy cost pressure then reengineer it to be cheaper. With added benefit of better understanding the market and demand