Anon hates Apple

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• odium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Steve Jobs was evil af

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seriously though. Fuck that guy.

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    • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure his wife already did that.

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  • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why, exactly? Genuinely asking. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m no Apple fan, and he was absolutely an insufferable douchebag to nearly everyone he knew; and was a verifiable self-righteous fuckwit who Darwin’d himself out of existence by choosing woo-woo bullshit over medicine for a very treatable cancer.

    Evil, though, I think might be a stretch – Elon, Thiel, Vance, Trump, Murdoch, the Sackler family, the Koch brothers, etc. all excellent contenders for being truly evil – but afaik Jobs was just a dickhead with an ego the size of a blimp, and I think we ought not dilute that term with just your run-of-the-mill dickheads. Unless you know something I don’t about him.

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    • odium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      theguardian.com/…/daughter-steve-jobs-denied-lisa…

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    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It shouldn’t surprise you. Being evil is practically a requirement for that level of success as a capitalist.

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• WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Apple wouldn’t replace my wife’s phone battery because they “detected water damage”. I did it myself through their DIY system, which is more than a bit ridiculous because they only set it up after they got sued and they are salty about it.

  Honestly it was fun receiving a huge crate that looked like something from a spy movie with an expensive rig to push down on the phone screen just right to adhere the glue on the new screen. I had fun, and it wasn’t that expensive, but it was absolutely ridiculous.

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Their “repair” program is nothing but a scam to nudge you into buying a new Apple product to replace the broken one with overinflated repair prices and bullshit excuses like that.

  Also it works exactly as Steve Jobs intended.

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  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When they’re not actively trying to make it harder to self repair, that is.

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  • cybergazer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s one of the most innovative leaders of our time. One of the best lessons ive ever learned from him running my crypto empire was to give people extreme deadlines that normally would be difficult to meet. I’ve fired a lot of underperforming employees with this trick to make room for the best men who will work hard with little sleep to get rich off of crypto. Btw dm me if you’re interested in joining. We pay $8.25/hr but imagine the profit you can turn over once the crypto exchange goes up

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    • stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t tell if your comment is satire or real. I hope it’s satire.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You need to use the word “motivated” more

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• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Some of the parts were missing”

  You motherfuckers put the damn thing together in the first place!

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• Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is almost exactly what happened to me except they told me my phone had mold growing inside it from the shattered screen I wanted replaced.

  The “mold” was pocket lint from waiting a month to get it fixed.

  Bitch actually said right to my face that my phone no longer works so let’s get you a new one. I powered on the phone right there and he started backpedaling and grifting ‘oh but it won’t be long tho’. So I went home and still use it with the shattered screen because fuck them.

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  • jumjummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FYI, you can replace the screen yourself. I’ve replaced the screen and battery on an older iPhone. Bought the parts off Amazon, watched a YouTube video and that’s it. Super tiny screws so it may help if you have a magnifying glass (or one of those magnifying + light units for painting miniatures).

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    • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Never thought of doing that myself tbh but I’ll check it out, thanks for the idea. Id be happy if I could get a couple more years out of it because it sure beats these iPhone prices now

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and I’m guessing you will still continue to use apple products and buy another iphone…

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    • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d love nothing more than to move back to android, but I’m a cheap bastard.

      I’m going to drive this til the wheels fall off

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yea Google are much better with all their pro consumer practices like hosting thousands of malware apps. Also their manufacturing partners where both Google and the manufacturer get to spy on you and sell your data.

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  • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I miss the days people working the Genius Bar were actually tech savvy and not just “lifestyle influencer wannabes”

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Parts missing? I don’t believe this at all. A phone is basically a single board, screen, battery, lenses, audio bits. Everything is so jammed in that there’s no room to think parts are missing. No tech would make this mistake and Apple doesn’t benefit from generating a hostile customer experience. This is made up.

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  • DrPop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sorry details may be fake, but I do believe an apple employee would pull some shot because policy dictates they sell new equipment over fixing old equipment.

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every apple fanboy I talk to gushes about how amazing the genius bar is, helping them when they get their iPhone stuck in their ass.

      But every casual user who has different problems beyond getting an iPhone stuck in their ass seems to get the same response: “Buy the next version”.

      I dunno though I’m forced to use the apple products from work.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was a tech in a store and covered a fee on a replacement device because it was the second time the guy had to come to us. I gave a young woman (student) a free laptop because she’d had a super long repair history during my last week in that role. Apple conditions their retail employees to treat customers well and it’s something I missed getting to do for people forever after.

      When I moved to the mothership, the only mantra was always about doing right by our customers. When I was interviewing for that gig, I asked one of the interviewers what he considered challenging about the job and he said that (coming from Microsoft to Apple) the company had an “insane” focus on its customers. It really is a top-down attitude. The company may be high sniffing their own farts, but they believe they’re uniquely focused on doing the right thing.

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  • rehydrate5503@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you suggesting someone would lie? On the internet?

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you suggesting someone would lie? At the Genius Bar?

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    • spookedintownsville@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “You really think someone would do that?”

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, because no one lies on the internet ever. Which is why you should invest in this MLM I’m about to tell you about.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to work for Apple. I don’t believe the missing parts story because as you said, how would that even happen. But, if any parts have been replaced, especially the home buttons / finger print reader, they will refuse to fix, and in never understand why. So that may be what happened.

    Also Jobs was 100% behind this stuff. It’s so annoying when people treat him like he was some tech god. He was a twat.

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    • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He turned psychotic control over hardware into a science. He’s done more to harm open source than a weirdly misogynistic neck beard could ever do.

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    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The refusal is likely tied to liability, in that they see any aftermarket parts or OoW repairs as a potential failure point and fear the customer may blame them for it. It wouldn’t even matter if the quality of work or parts is as good or better. There’s also another factor of trying to oversimplify any repairs/service to allow them to eventually hire unqualified/uneducated ‘techs’ for things who don’t have a clue what’s going on.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is made up.

    It’s a green text lol.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apple does benefit from tech illiterate customers buying a new iPhone instead.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A lot of it is single board, but there are smaller PCB layered in there connected by ribbon cables or press-in connections. I replaced the battery in my iphone and it’s a tedious but doable DIY project. Anyway, the way it’s assembled doesn’t lend itself to missing parts. Parts of or the whole phone won’t work. No way would phone arrive “missing” parts - unless there was external damage to any cameras or switches.

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  • exploitedamerican@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only way i would believe it is if they meant a screw or two or one of the flat metal plates that is used to secure other components. Ive repaired i pho es and they are a pain tk deal with and sometimes you forget exactly which screw goes where when they are mostly so small they all look the same. I misplaced a small plastic component thst acts as a sound amplifying cone to direct your voice soundwaves to the microphone use for phone calls and it made it so people couldnt hear me unless i used the speaker phone. But thats no good reason not to repair. They should have drawers filled with those screws and other internal irrelevant components

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• Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least where I live, if the bootleg repair place isn’t slightly moldy, it’s a scam. Rundown, old white tiles on the wall, chipped mirror somewhere, a frail curtain to separate the back area from the front counter, and, in summer, a mandatory swiveling standing fan. That’s where your phone will get a second lease on its live!

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  • Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Never did a lot of specifically phone repair, but all the computer and misc electronics repair I’ve worked at follow a similar pattern to yours. To add to it - there should be cobbled together racks, behind the flimsy curtain, filled with devices of many vintages in many states of (dis)repair.

    The cleaner the place and the steeper the price, a lotta times the better the proprietor is at business than at electronics, lol

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• not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The missing part was a brand new iPhone or two.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fake and gay. They will never say your device has parts missing since they know most customers aren’t that stupid. They most of the time say you have water damage or it’s too old for repair.

  The Apple Genius Bar sucks ass. But let’s not pretend like any of the other big tech companies do any better. At least Apple has a physical store where they can fuck you over in person. Try getting Samsung shit repaired. In most countries they let a 3rd party company do the handling and repairs and you can’t visit that company. You have to send it in and if they deem your device unrepairable or “not” broken they send it back and you have to pay for shipping both ways even if the device falls under warranty and sometimes they send it back more broken then when it left your hands. While communication happens solely trough email.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I worked the Genius Bar for 3 years and only left a couple of years ago.

    I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, in the UK at least, that there is no lying going on. We don’t care about upselling you anything. If we can repair your phone or replace the battery we will.

    The reason we decline for say water damage or unauthorised repair is because they want to guarantee the repairs with a warranty and that is hard to do when it has been water damaged or someone else has been in and maybe fucked something up.

    Plenty of shit Apple do wrong but the service here is top notch compared to any other manufacturer.

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    • Skates@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Plenty of shit Apple do wrong but the service here is top notch compared to any other manufacturer.

      I don’t understand how this can ever be argued when apple’s record against consumer’s right to repair is like a dictator’s record against its own people.

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can confirm for America too—I worked there also and saw the same. There are moisture indicators inside the device that the phone owner can’t see, and if those are triggered, then it could have done microscopic damage to the internal components. If Apple fixes it and it dies a week later from water damage, the customer will blame Apple, so they choose to replace the unit when they see the indicators have been triggered.

      “Missing parts” is not a likely phrase they would have ever used.

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    • MooseTheDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In the UK. Makes sense

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  • Alchalide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Non-related but pretty nice. Broke my pixel 6a screen. I could pay 200 euro to repair shop or order a new screen with in this case ifixit for 110 euro and get all the tools required. Went with the second option and got the satisfaction of replacing my own screen. Worked out perfect and got an official screen. Can’t do that with all phones but pretty nice option imho.

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  • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why did you have to bring homosexuality into this? I thought we were past using gay as a pejorative.

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, and I say this as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
      They have become cringe again.

      Give us Stonewall queers not Rainbow Capitalists who only show up when it’s a party.

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    • thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s just part of greentext memeing to accuse OP/the post of being fake and gay.

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• Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  what did Steve Jobs even do except for management and marketing, and why does he then get the praise for the hardware/software???

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ripped off Steve Wozniak

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Honestly, genius-level move. Always a good decision.

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  • xor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    he did much more than that….

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    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I

      might be an interesting read:

      By March 1, 1976, Wozniak completed the basic design of his computer.[22][23] Wozniak originally offered the design to HP while working there, but it was rejected by the company on five occasions.[24] When he demonstrated his computer at the Homebrew Computer Club, his friend and fellow club regular Steve Jobs was immediately interested in its commercial potential.[25] Wozniak intended to share schematics of the machine for free, but Jobs advised him to start a business together and sell bare printed circuit boards for the computer.[26][27][28] Wozniak, at first skeptical, was later convinced by Jobs that even if they were not successful they could at least say to their grandchildren that they had had their own company. To raise the money they needed to build the first batch of the circuit boards, Wozniak sold his HP-65 scientific calculator while Jobs sold his Volkswagen van.[26][27]

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    • HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right, he demanded “NO FANS” on most products and caused all those components to overheat. He was a true visionary.

      He was a marketing and brand genius I give him that.

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• MightyCuriosity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Real story: A friend of mine used his iPhone on his motorcycle and it messed up the OIS. He went to Apple, said they wouldn’t fix it. He went to a third party and they told him they basically have to beg Apple to fix it and get parts so he’d have to leave his phone for a week to MAYBE get it fixed by the grace of the big fruit. He bought a new iPhone. I still don’t understand why.

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Get your friend a dampener for their bike. Check out QuadLockCase.com for one example.

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    • MightyCuriosity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The link doesn’t work but he did have a special “isolation mount” but alas. And they specifically write they’re not responsible for damages.

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• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apple absolutely does NOT slow old phones when the send out new updates. Anymore.

  /s

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  • Zementid@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am almost certain, Google is doing the same with the pixels. My Pixel 6 suddenly lags or doesn’t react on inputs.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      GrapheneOS.

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• wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jobs was an idiot. Chose homeopathic crap instead of medicine. I don’t give him credit for anything if he’s that dumb.

  He’s free to do that, sure, but anyone doing so is safe to be labeled “moron” by everyone else.

  Unless I’ve heard a messed up version of events he will stay in the “idiots that were not beneficial to humans in any way” trash can.

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  • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He had one of the few treatable forms of pancreatic cancer and skipped the only known treatment in favour of homeopathic.

    If he had “normal” pancreatic cancer I’d maybe give him some slack. It’s just not treatable. But what he had was probably survivable had he treated it immediately.

    abcnews.go.com/Technology/…/story?id=14781250

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    • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well if the treatment is specifically miserable, that could be a factor.

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ascend to Fairphone

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While I get and applaud the mission of the Fairphone, there are some serious compromises you have to make spec-wise to be on it.

    Even in the greentext, dude paid $60, not bad for + ~3 years of life. Your run of the mill Android will probably be cheaper as significantly less “part serializing” bull happens on the android side

    It’s not worth the power-handicap they shove in that thing.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Power handicap” compared to what like a 2k phone? My almost 4.5 yo Pixel 4a is still doing fine in terms of specs. Only the battery is junk by now. I don’t need a phone that is more powerful and more expensive than my freaking PC, I just want one that does not make replacing the battery a huge pain in my ass.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apart from the price premium, which is still far from Apple’s, and seems rational considering they try to limit impact on the people and the planet, what are those serious compromises? I had the Fairphone 2, and I would agree this one was clunky, and you needed to be somewhat of an activist to stand it. But from the Fairphone 4 that I have, and likely the 5th, I don’t see much compromise, everything has been perfectly smooth for me.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Writing on a Fair phone 4 it’s amazing to easily replace stuff that breaks but they need to seriously sort out their software side never had a glitchier phone.

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• LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apple a bad company? Really? I neeeeever neeeeever heard anything bad about aaaaaple.

  No shit Sherlock, it’d obvious AF. It’s one of the wealthiest companies in the world. They didn’t get all that money with honesty. Child labor, slave labor, ripping off consumers, creating a whole new level of corporate greed. Apple is as evil as you can get. Just like Nvidia, Shell, Google, Nestlé, etc.

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• Gjolin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My work got me an Macbook M3. After two weeks of dicking around with it, I went back to my Thinkpad. I don’t get it at all. I thought at least the hardware would be great, but I hate the hardware too. Too heavy, aluminum case feels fucking cold to the touch, screen still isn’t bright enough to work outside, keyboard has the fucked up layout. And although the M-series sets a nice trend, it currently cannot run GNU/Linux without lots of reverse engineering, so fuck that. My 2014 gen Thinkpad is a far better experience. I’m now even more convinced than ever that Apple is just a marketing cult.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wish I had that choice, but my options right now are upgrade to an M3 now or wait until our stock runs out and get an M4. For now, I’ve decided to wait.

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  • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have the same gripe with the aluminum chassis on laptops. I got a cheap Thinkpad Chromebook for personal use and even though the material on the X1 Carbons is a fingerprint magnet, at least it isn’t chilly every time you rest your hands on it.

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• MooseTheDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When Apple can’t exploit poor minorities with targeted ads, things will get better. Probably the most overvalued company out there rn. People don’t realize how much Apple does to keep their pop culture status. It’s getting harder an harder to maintain, but it will never truly go away.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does less, costs more!

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  • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Windows sells my data, puts ads everywhere, and the UI annoys me five times every day I use it; OSX doesn’t. It’s worth the extra money.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anon is not alone

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• thmnwlf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • DrFuggles@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    meh, I don’t think OOP’s shilling for $local_phone_repair

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