Apple makes mistakes too with it's many hardware-related and boot loop issues. The iPhone X was practically a lemon.
What are you talking about? I used it for 3 years, not a single problem nor have I heard of any. Cite your assertions.
Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
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Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Comparing Samsung to Apple is laughable. Samsung is clueless when it comes to product design. Their strategy can be best described as “throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks”. Latest attempt: foldable phones. Foldable phones will never be a thing again and their desperate marketing campaign is embarrassing. The only thing keeping them in the ring is their inarguably impressive manufacturing capabilities that a…
What are you talking about? Foldable phone sales have been shaprly rising every year and they're a massive success for Samsung. Did you actually look at any real facts before you spewed your crock?
Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#43This feels like a horribly dishonest sentence to start with. There are loads and loads of quality, well-built products in this world and many of them are even Android phones.
It will take you minutes to find them if you just use Google.
Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#44Apple makes mistakes too with it's many hardware-related and boot loop issues. The iPhone X was practically a lemon.
Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#45I have an old Air and frankly, although the battery life, weight and hardware in general are fine, I didn't find the software so much better than Windows. Even in the hardware side, there are other brands catching up.
The problem with Linux is another entirely different story.
Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#46Maybe try... a good Android phone? This question is silly. The Pixel or any top-end Samsung is equivalent or better than the iPhone in hardware. The Android and iOS user interfaces are similar enough that it's mostly personal preference and familiarity.
Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#47I'm not being facetious here but I have no idea what you mean by "apple quality". I've been using Macbook Pros for a long time. In my opinion "Apple Quality" died way back in 2013, possibly 2015. After that, they started introducing user-hostile phones, laptops, etc. The touchbar is a travesty and now you have to pay more money to have a normal experience. The feeling of the laptops and aesthetics are nice but the pa…
That's pure Apple bashing BS.
It could be refuted in so many ways, but I'll pick an easy one.
Apple silicon Macbooks Pros.
They have no competition. The nearest competition you can find needs to be plugged into the mains, and even then it doesn't perform as well as Apple.
Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Comparing Samsung to Apple is laughable. Samsung is clueless when it comes to product design. Their strategy can be best described as “throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks”. Latest attempt: foldable phones. Foldable phones will never be a thing again and their desperate marketing campaign is embarrassing. The only thing keeping them in the ring is their inarguably impressive manufacturing capabilities that a…
> Foldable phones will never be a thing again While I agree w/r/tv their current incarnation, eventually “rollable” screens will be perfected and a shape-shifting phone will be popular. Either that, or AR will be thoroughly developed and the “phones as a concept will go away entirely. That’s a long way from today, but it’s not “never”.
The waiting until a technology is mature enough to be useful to consumers is exactly what Apple is known for and what separates them from the rest.
Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#49I'm not being facetious here but I have no idea what you mean by "apple quality". I've been using Macbook Pros for a long time. In my opinion "Apple Quality" died way back in 2013, possibly 2015. After that, they started introducing user-hostile phones, laptops, etc. The touchbar is a travesty and now you have to pay more money to have a normal experience. The feeling of the laptops and aesthetics are nice but the pa…
Re: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you talking about? Foldable phone sales have been shaprly rising every year and they're a massive success for Samsung. Did you actually look at any real facts before you spewed your crock?
3D TVs sales once rose sharply too and now they’re dead. I laughed at those back then too. Samsung sold ~10M foldable phones in the same time Apple sold ~240M iPhones. It might be a success to Samsung but it’s a drop in the bucket overall. The first wave of people that buy them will realize it’s a gimmick and sales will drop after equilibrium between marketing reach and consumer dissatisfaction is reached.
I frankly find your aggressive tone here utterly bizarre - why do you so strongly need to defend Apple here? Can you explain that?