I dunno man, I’ve made it a point of pride to be rough with my Macbook over the years. They hold up well to repeated beatings and last a long time. I’d rate my 2017 Macbook Pro as hardier than the Thinkpad X1 Carbon I had as a company computer for my last job. And the MacBook might have been cheaper new too.
Comment on Thinkpad for the win
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Apple: The Gucci of the tech world.
TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It really is. I once dated a girl that would rip on me for having a Samsung. She said she needed an iPhone for work cause she takes a lot of pics and uses socials a lot. She couldn’t fathom that my Samsung could do all of that and arguably more
Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
She takes a lot of pictures…so she needed a worse camera?
Altrex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Whoa, I dislike iPhones for plenty of reasons, but the cameras are consistently among the best. Maybe not spec wise, and you can complain about post processing all you want. But to an average user that’s just clicking the shutter they turn out great.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Oh they’re by no means bad cameras, it’s just that in my experience Samsung cameras tend to be the best, as far as phones go. My wife has a fancy DSLR that just collects dust because her phone camera blows it out of the water (meanwhile there’s me with my Motorola that I quite like, but the camera is a potato)
ulterno@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Her problem was that her fans would then see a Samsung phone in the social pics, instead of the seasonal variety ornament that is the iPhone.
ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Not sure if it’s changed by now but a lot of the social apps for Android would just take a screen grab when taking a picture, so when uploading from Android the pics looked much worse than iPhone.
kamen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Apple vs Samsung aside, she wasn’t concerned with using her own phone for work?
lazyViking@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why would this concern anyone?
kamen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you have to just open a website related to work, it’s fine, but in some instances, in order to access work resources, the phone has to be managed by the company, so this creates an obvious concern about private data. I guess “taking pictures and using social media” from the example here doesn’t fall under that category, but that doesn’t mean it’s the same for other cases.
Even if it’s not that complicated, it might be just about separating work from private life. If I have to use a phone for work, I’d personally much prefer it to be a separate device that I can turn off and put in a drawer when I don’t need it.