Apple admits repair business hurts their bottom line

Before everyone gets butthurt over the generational thing, you have to look at it with perspective. There are dumb and smart older folks, and there are dumb and smart younger folks.

It all depends on your level of engagement with the history of the world, current events, the general ability to remember basic facts. Like this "oldish" guy who can't recall what the stars on the US flag represent. (The "gullible" dictionary one is a classic though... you have to be an abstract thinker to see it if you were the ones being interviewed.)

 
gaussian said:
It's legitimately impressive that even in a mundane completely non-controversial topic like this one, there is always one asshole who manages to blame/shit talk/look down upon millennials for something that doesn't even matter and is frankly an absolutely terrible analogy anyway.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go get the rest of my avocado toast from the kitchen.
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Not really true, when the batteries start to go the peak output goes, so if you run the processor at 100% you haven't got enough Amps, so the processor stalls and you get hangs, so actually, running the processor slower ( not in any way you'd notice ) is actually faster than the stalls, so this was a good thing reported badly.

p.s not a Fan boy at all!!
 
Apple is not your friend.

1.Your response initially sounds good but you are not mentioning that Apple installed this "fix" on your phone without telling you.

2.Also their dogmatic insistence that you can not repair your Apple product is another indication that Apple is not your friend

"Apple has long fought efforts that would make iPhones easier to repair: It has lobbied against right to repair efforts in several states, doesn’t sell iPhone replacement parts, sued an independent repair professional in Norway, worked with Amazon to get iPhone and MacBook refurbishers kicked off Amazon Marketplace, and has deals with electronics recyclers that require them to shred iPhones and MacBooks (as opposed to allowing them to be refurbished.) The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, has seized iPhone replacement parts from prominent right to repair activists in the United States.'

3. For a company to be truly amazing they should be able to deliver more for less. Apple has never been able to do this. All of Apple innovation has been incrementally less functionally but incrementally more cost wise - cost increased more than functionality.

4. The icing on the cake is that Apple has $65 billion dollars on its balance sheet in cash and short term investments. It doesn't really need the money generated from higher prices, they just want more money for more money sake. They don't even know what to do with it. It is more a game of how much they can squeeze out of their loyal customers.
 
Ayn Rand said:
Apple is not your friend.

1.Your response initially sounds good but you are not mentioning that Apple installed this "fix" on your phone without telling you.

2.Also their dogmatic insistence that you can not repair your Apple product is another indication that Apple is not your friend

"Apple has long fought efforts that would make iPhones easier to repair: It has lobbied against right to repair efforts in several states, doesn’t sell iPhone replacement parts, sued an independent repair professional in Norway, worked with Amazon to get iPhone and MacBook refurbishers kicked off Amazon Marketplace, and has deals with electronics recyclers that require them to shred iPhones and MacBooks (as opposed to allowing them to be refurbished.) The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, has seized iPhone replacement parts from prominent right to repair activists in the United States.'

3. For a company to be truly amazing they should be able to deliver more for less. Apple has never been able to do this. All of Apple innovation has been incrementally less functionally but incrementally more cost wise - cost increased more than functionality.

4. The icing on the cake is that Apple has $65 billion dollars on its balance sheet in cash and short term investments. It doesn't really need the money generated from higher prices, they just want more money for more money sake. They don't even know what to do with it. It is more a game of how much they can squeeze out of their loyal customers.
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With such a handle not sure why you despising Apple so much. It is a free market, no one puts a gun to people’s head and forces them to buy Apple products. If everyone was as concerned about their practices as you are, no one would buy Apple products.

I suggest you choose a different handle or change attitude. ;)
 
RedDuke said:
With such a handle not sure why you despising Apple so much. It is a free market, no one puts a gun to people’s head and forces them to buy Apple products. If everyone was as concerned about their practices as you are, no one would buy Apple products.

I suggest you choose a different handle or change attitude. ;)
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the free market will make these companies ethical you see
 
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