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- Saving so many lives with the heart sensor
- PMS tracker
- Some autism spectrum boy that started to run
- Trial periods
- Compass
Now, I'm sitting there thinking, wait, why do I need to hear this boasting about the past? Do you have cool shit to show or not? It all just smells like they are trying to impress their own employees and this is something I see so often in other companies, that Apple just didn't do before.
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>a premium reseller replaced the battery in 45 minutes for free. I bought the phone in Australia. Try that with your Pixel... Actually on a (Samsung) Galaxy 5 you could've just popped open the back of the phone and replaced the battery yourself in a few seconds.
At a cost to you.
Most people do not get free replacements or repairs for their iPhones.
Former Apple Store employee here! You would be surprised by how people become blind from all the smokes and mirrors of the Apple branding and advertisement. I remember one day, there was a 40-something years old man, that came in with an iPhone X and switched it for an XS, adding 500 euros. Only to return 1 week later to switch the XS for an XR with better storage, adding 250 euros. Only to return 2 weeks later, to s…
It's kind of sad really. Businesses prey on the human condition and there's nothing we can do about it because, well, Apple's not really breaking the law and we all like good cellphones.
Commodities seem harmless, but brainwashing people to buy moderate quality products at luxury prices is horrifying.
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> blind test Well yes, all cameras look the same if you do a "blind" test. :)
Not that type of blind. Basically given a scenario, take a picture with n number of phones varying in quality/price. MKBHD the Youtuber then found that a worse quality camera came on top as the "best" quality for twitter/instagram users because that bad quality camera over-compensated with over exposure and some other factors (as far as I recall). Essentially, camera quality in this day and age doesn't matter, unless…
They had people vote on the 'best' picture, and they always chose the sharpest one. You could clearly make out which camera took which photo. The biggest problem was that the DSLR was never focused right so it was blurry.
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If there’s “more capacity” in the same volume it is almost certainly a lie. And sellers that lie may cut corners in other areas. And lithium ion batteries can explode.
There haven’t been any improvements in energy density in the last 4 years? That would be pretty surprising.
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> Smartphone hardware is done. There's no significant gain in buying a new smartphone if you have bought one in last 3 years Agreed. Even a Xiaomi Mi A2 with Android One for 130-150€ is almost on par with these high end phones that cost eight times as much: It's fast enough. It has a gorgeous display. It has a decent camera and it has up-to-date software. In these times of diminishing returns it's amazing that Apple…
I doubt many people are buying iPhones for extra privacy.
Snd it can't be a small number, as Apple constantly mentions privacy in their marketing, down to the level of individual services.
For the subset of people who care, they're virtually a monopoly.
Former Apple Store employee here! You would be surprised by how people become blind from all the smokes and mirrors of the Apple branding and advertisement. I remember one day, there was a 40-something years old man, that came in with an iPhone X and switched it for an XS, adding 500 euros. Only to return 1 week later to switch the XS for an XR with better storage, adding 250 euros. Only to return 2 weeks later, to s…
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Apple stuff lasts, this is not an Apple issue, any of those phones would have been good for several years. I'm only my 3rd iPhone in 9 years (soon to replace it though). Also 3rd iPad in 9 years. My Macbook Air is from 2012. Apple do software updates going quite far back. A lot of Apple's hardware looks exactly the same from generation to generation, so even if you updated, how would anyone know? If customers want to…
What you said it totally true. But to say that Apple is not forcing is a white lie. It's true that they're not pointing guns at us, but they are smoothly pointing us in that direction. There's a psychological pressure to have the latest tech, otherwise not only your phone, but also you yourself, are outdated and uncool. No kind of manipulation was ever forceful. That's what makes it a manipulation. You think you're d…
I mean... is your theory that if Apple didn’t exist, people wouldn’t buy things to look cool?
> A lot of people are intelligent and strong enough to resist this brainwash, but a lot of others are not.
Speaking of signaling status... somehow comments like this are always posted by folks who sort themselves into the first category.
Maybe people buy things you don’t want to buy just because they like them, not because they’re too dumb to resist “brainwashing.”
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> "Then we tried with 20 months one. Finally, accepted" The social pressure for having "an old phone" most have been incredibly high. Something like that happen to me on university, I had a 5 years old phone with no Whatsapp/Blackberry chat. It made me feel so left behind and even sad sometimes.
The cool thing now is that you can have a brand new 2019 phone with the latest tech for 300/400 euros. So if you want to keep the pace, you can do it without selling your soul. I think it's more about the temporary sense of worthiness that an Apple product can give you.
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What you said it totally true. But to say that Apple is not forcing is a white lie. It's true that they're not pointing guns at us, but they are smoothly pointing us in that direction. There's a psychological pressure to have the latest tech, otherwise not only your phone, but also you yourself, are outdated and uncool. No kind of manipulation was ever forceful. That's what makes it a manipulation. You think you're d…
Blaming Apple for the general human desire to demonstrate status to one another seems like a bit much, and IMO grants them a level of implied power over society that they haven’t earned. I mean... is your theory that if Apple didn’t exist, people wouldn’t buy things to look cool? > A lot of people are intelligent and strong enough to resist this brainwash, but a lot of others are not. Speaking of signaling status...…
I mean, I can't think of a person who'd be aware enough of it and be willing to state this as a member of the second category?