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[+] -18 points 4 weeks ago (16 children)

Yeah you can criticise Apple on many things, but definitely not in build quality and software support. They're so far ahead of everyone else, it's not even funny.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

    What a ridiculous statement... They are pioneers in planned obsolescence. They literally designed a laptop where all of the heat vented directly onto the vulnerable hinge until the screen eventually failed and an iPhone that couldn't make phone calls until you bought an extra case for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    I'm not saying they're perfect, far from that, personally I despise their stupid marketing and clear cut decisions (the CD drive, the jack, etc.), the repairability is abysmal. They had big flukes and made stupid decisions, like fanless laptops, butterfly keyboards and such.

    But an iPhone is supported for 10 years software wise, a MacBook is supported for 7 years. The build quality of pretty much all their products is also generally great with the occasional miss. Not many tech manufacturers come close. Maybe I'm mistaken and I'd be gladly proven wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    "Repairability" and they were the first ones to make batteries be glued so they can only be repaired by an Apple repair center. 😭

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  • [–] -2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    The “planned obsolescence” argument holds as much water as a sieve and always has.

    It’s cope. Everyone seems to need to cope about why they got what they got and not the other thing. Nobody can just admit “I got the thing I wanted”

    I wear yalls downvotes as a badge of pride that I triggered some tribalists who had to react but couldn’t respond

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    You’re literally parroting the same type of tech tribalism bullshit that I’m responding to.

    They had a design defect. It happens.

    They’ve never sold me a phone that explodes in my pocket though. I guess Samsung also planned that obsolescence?

    It’s the “assigning intent” behind a thing that proves the tribalism.

    For fucks sake just use the shit you want to use and let other people use the shit they want to use.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    This is just whataboutism. Fuck "tech tribalism" and fuck every tech company.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    It sure would be whatavoutism if I was trying to make one side the good guy or the other guy specifically the bad guy.

    My point entirely is that they all do fucked up shit and pretending your favorite tech company is good while the other is evil is some stupid shit.

    Use what you like. Accept there are problems and things that could be done better. Get something else if it ticks your boxes.

    But to be a braindead tech tribalist by parroting the narrative that foo product users are inherently brainwashed and dumb is irony at its best.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Samsung isn't good either. Anything closed-sourced and privative is bad by definition.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago*

    They are pioneers in planned obsolescence.

    I have owned three laptops since 2004. Powerbook 2004-2014, Macbook Air 2014-2025, Macbook Air 2025-now. This doesn’t feel like planned obsolescence to me? This feels like computers that last way fuckin longer. but whatever. None of these laptops were more than about $800 either. I’m into apple because I’m cheap as hell, IDK man.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Their build quality is shit. I had a phone that I would throw into the air and let it land on concrete for funsies. That phone lasted me 5 years. It was a Motorola. The back was plastic, the front was either gorilla glass or plastic. Either way, I didn't have a case on it, and it didn't break.

    If a phone needs a case, its because the build quality is absolute shit. Every phone should be able to be slammed onto the concrete without a case. It's the gold standard of build quality.

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