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I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by doubled112 »

Gigachad wrote: post #55
daedrdev wrote: post #50

I do feel like there is some man shaking fist at cloud here. The post dismisses airpods, yet they are one of the most popular products in the US, with like 75% of young people owning a pair, great quality, features, and battery life. I dont think a swappable battery is even a good feature, the parts would be tiny and break easily given their size not to mention how often they could get lost

Hot swappable batteries kind of became not so important after battery banks and fast charging became a thing. Makes more sense to carry one battery bank that can charge anything than to have 2-3 phone batteries in your bag (which would be exposed to puncture too). I still think the price of battery replacements is way too high from apple. It's $150 AUD here which feels far and beyond the cost of the part cost itself.

I realize we're talking about Airpods, but hot swappable batteries don't make sense to me either anymore. I seem to have power almost everywhere.

My phone spends a surprising amount of time on a charger. Most of the day while I'm at home, it's on a charger. I used to keep one at the office on my desk. The car has a charger too, and CarPlay so you might as well plug it in.

I'm not sure if it's a coping mechanism for poor battery life or just convenience.

For long days outdoors, I've also got a booster pack in the car with USB ports and an inverter (120V) that gets some use.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by freetime2 »

999900000999 wrote: post #88

Or course. Case in point, iPads don't have headphone jacks. While these devices are very capable of audio production, that's a joke while using Bluetooth. But that's not Apple's concern. Airpods sell billions of dollars worth every year. Every other phone manufacturer said ooh, cool and instead of getting pro level audio in my 1000$ Android phone I have to settle for Bluetooth which still hasn't caught up. Airpods, a…

Couldn’t you use a dongle?

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by hedora »

avidiax wrote: post #17
tra3 wrote: post #4

In the original announcement thread there was some speculation that the air is a precursor to folding models down the line. I hope that’s true.

I want that speculation to be true, but I also don't think that the Air is a stepping stone towards that. The risky parts on a folding phone are the bending screen and the hinge and the software features. The iPhone Air tests none of those things.

It tests their assembly lines and supply chain by producing 100 million titanium cases.

They did something similar when they transitioned the product line to aluminum.

(As a product, it’s the opposite of what I’d want — worse battery, bigger screen, worse camera, but they’ll certainly sell enough to debug the assembly lines.)

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by ars »

snowwrestler wrote: post #89

> it’s a company that I feel has lost its alignment with me and other long-time Apple users and customers. When OS X debuted there was a daytime radio talk show in my area called “The Computer Guys.” They capably covered all sorts of computing topics, but were clearly long-time Apple dudes. And they spent weeks complaining about what a disaster OS X was. The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG. The Finder made…

> And a text terminal? Like DOS?? Who the hell is ever going to want to use that on a Mac?

Me. I have to use a Mac at work, and I use the text terminal more than anything else on the computer. It doesn't help that Mac's don't have a good UI, everything is hidden behind extra key-presses, and switching between windows is a PAIN.

On a mac every window for an app is considered the same, so there's no concept of switching between windows (except with special hidden key presses).

When a window is in the background it doesn't receive clicks, so you have to click on it twice.

The menubar of a non-active window doesn't exist, so you need an extra click, first to activate the window, then to go find its menubar and do an action.

It's just a bad UI.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by ambrose2 »

arcanemachiner wrote: post #67
SoftTalker wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time a family member has had a cracked iPhone screen replaced it has never really worked properly again. It may be easy but it’s apparently not easy to do it well.

Did they get it replaced by Apple, or some guy in a mall kiosk?

My mom got her battery replaced at an Apple Store and the process broke the phones ability to connect to the internet or the cellular network. They ended up replacing the phone.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by bigyabai »

Gigachad wrote: post #57
danpalmer wrote: post #3

This pretty much sums up my feeling on the new generation. I too don't understand what's "awe dropping" about it, and have finally switched from an iPhone 15 Pro to the Android ecosystem, where a flip phone is somewhat "awe dropping". I'm not fully convinced about it, but it's different, it's fun, it's clever, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. The only thing I disagree with here is about the Air. I think Apple's strate…

Depends who you are. If you want to take pro video on the phone they dropped some great improvements. The Air is impressive even if not the phone I'd pick. But realistically, if your current phone works really well for you which it probably does, nothing they could possibly announce would be interesting to you.

> nothing they could possibly announce would be interesting to you.

Apple is a hardware company that makes lifestyle products. Why isn't their hardware appealing to me? Why can't it be?

In a competitive economy, phrases like this should a last resort, used to describe only the most decrepit and unjustifiable businesses. If nothing they can announce will interest me, then what are they even selling? A religion? A service? Certainly not a commodity, apparently nothing I need.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by worthless-trash »

worthless-trash wrote: post #5
Gualdrapo wrote: post #2

A few days ago I tried to express a similar opinion here - regarding design and taking in account the liquid glass thing and the iphone air, it feels they are doing "innovation" for the sake of "innovation", and got downvoted. They're doing (arguably) huge improvements in processing and computing yet they want to disrupt user experience just because.

You are experiencing the negative side of the apple reality distortion field. I too have experienced this. I expect that i have been too direct in my dislike of apple in this post. You have to come at the problem sideways. To allow for any real hope of not being down voted the crowd. I dont know what the root cause is.. if Cupertino corp has a really expensive pr team or apple devices are laced with some kind of mind…

I'd like to say HI to the apple PR team! looks like you made it.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by rjsw »

snowwrestler wrote: post #89

> it’s a company that I feel has lost its alignment with me and other long-time Apple users and customers. When OS X debuted there was a daytime radio talk show in my area called “The Computer Guys.” They capably covered all sorts of computing topics, but were clearly long-time Apple dudes. And they spent weeks complaining about what a disaster OS X was. The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG. The Finder made…

> And a text terminal? Like DOS?? Who the hell is ever going to want to use that on a Mac?

Had they never used MPW?

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