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Why I’m done with Apple

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Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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Lucky for this guy Apple is the only company that has power, processing power, and 3rd party developer constraints to deal with when creating their products. The laws of physics don't apply to other companies. He should be very happy from now on because all other products are fully baked and have no quirks. The one thing that does worry me is that he will buy the new galaxy 7 and the write an essay about how atrociou…

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Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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> Remember the iPhone 4? I even believed your bullshit about the antenna, but yes, it really didn’t work. I spent a year of my life with dropped calls, thanks for that. translation: I was too stubborn to buy a case / bumper to prevent this and suffered and bitched for a year instead > iPhone: I can’t even get a day’s charge out of it possibly valid, possibly using some rogue app that's killing the battery life, possi…

"translation: I was too stubborn to buy a case / bumper to prevent this and suffered and bitched for a year instead" Or, the product is faulty as he rightfully stated. The fact that a fault like this can be remedied by purchasing another product, which you shouldn't have to, is besides the point. It's a cellphone, if there's anything it should do properly, it's make calls.

I tried really hard to find this problem. I never could. (Might have been GSM-specific, though).

Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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post #30

Lucky for this guy Apple is the only company that has power, processing power, and 3rd party developer constraints to deal with when creating their products. The laws of physics don't apply to other companies. He should be very happy from now on because all other products are fully baked and have no quirks. The one thing that does worry me is that he will buy the new galaxy 7 and the write an essay about how atrociou…

> I would love to hear from anyone who read this article and it changed their life.

Now apply what you wrote to your own text.

Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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post #7

I'm done with reading articles from people being done with Apple every time Apple announces an update or launches a new product.

People feel the need to let us know of their feelings about products.

And even more people feel the need to let us know they are "done" with reading such articles. Each time.

Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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post #28

I'm just impressed that someone still manages to be upset about a cellphone they had an antenna issue with 6 years ago. Dedication!

I just find it hard to understand how someone with such a long history of deep and personally felt gripes with Apple products talked themselves into buying a 1st gen Apple Watch. I mean I'm a very happy and satisfied Apple customer, but decided not to touch AW for the first gen because it's pretty obviously a marginal utility device and since it's a brand new interaction model sure to have some jankeyness. But no, this guy jumps in with both feet even though he has a long history of bad Apple product experiences. Now that's fearlessness for you!

Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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post #12

AGREED 100%. They forget the people who are MAKING the apps for all of these nice mobile devices they are selling hundreds of millions of. What happened to Apple being for those who want to create things.

Err, no they didn't? See the developer-friendly App Store changes, the Siri and Maps public APIs, etc.

While you're right, 15-20 years ago Apple was actually building hardware for creative professionals as well. A lot of people felt betrayed by the consumer shift because the creative industry was all that really kept Apple afloat for a while until the iPod came about. None of the single-port glossy nonsense.

Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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Where developers go, it seems the mass market ends up later on. So you saw a lot of MacBooks at dev conferences from the mid 2000s on, but now.. you're seeing them start to get replaced with Surfaces and other avant garde PCs. MSFT is doing a better job of understanding what developers want lately, and I'm bullish on what this will mean long term if Apple's going to drop the ball on us.

Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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"the plethora of stagnant apps you force onto my device" While I agree, any stock Android phone from a carrier has quite a few itself.

Didn't Apple just announce that they'll be allowing users to delete pre-installed apps come iOS 10?

Oh that's hilarious. Not only is Android many times worse than iOS in this respect already, now iOS has got rid of the problem completely, but still ragequit.

Does the Macalope still do those pundit takedowns? This week's should be a hoot.

Re: Why I’m done with Apple

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"My Friday night was a disaster because Apple tricked me into renting an HD movie. I willingly wrote a watch that made me completely miserable. Why should you have to tell your watch when you're on a live TV set? Apple has a lot to learn from this random Indiegogo campaign that might ship a year from now. Here's a completely breathless article I wrote about it."

WTF am I reading?

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