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

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Post by skeezyjefferson »

amelius wrote: post #350
alexey-salmin wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> 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 ma…

> There's a theory in the comments that they want to align with "people who want the best camera array and have money to burn". I agree with you and this theory sounds like moving goalposts. First people claimed that the free market will always give the consumer what they want. Then this turned out to be not true (we even have a term, enshittification), and now people come up with a more "refined" theory. Why would i…

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Post by abhinavk »

asdff wrote: post #252
rd wrote: post #23

Not a huge believer in belittling an author's points, but the author makes absolutely not one objective point in this entire article. Genuinely every single thing he describes is an opinion, nothing more, nothing less. And those opinions, at that, aren't even very accurate. AirPods becoming e-waste? Seriously? Pick a better idea to make your point, because pretty much everyone I know has had their AirPods for 2-3+ ye…

I'm always surprised to see people on here talk about refresh rate. I can't see it with my eyes. I even just tested based on your comment with this m3 pro. Power settings are such where on power its pro motion and on battery its 60hz. I tried scrolling this thread really fast while plugging it in and unplugging it and I could not discern a difference. I'm not saying you can't, I'm just surprised I can't, given all I…

It depends on people and their age (of eyes). None of my parents/elders (except an uncle; he's the only one who's had LASIK) could see the point of my 240Hz monitor.

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Post by op00to »

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

The Airpods Pro 2 are probably the "best" headphones I've owned when you weigh sound quality, ease of use, convenience, etc. I've owned many, many sets of headphones over the years. The AirPods Pro 2 got the most use by far.

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Post by eloisant »

segfaultex wrote: post #360

I don't understand how one would come to the conclusion that this is new behavior from Apple. The first MacBook Airs were wildly impractical and expensive. The first iPad suffered from the same issues. Various iterations of the iPod nano were functionally kneecapped. I see a lot of cherrypicking and not a lot of reasoning in this essay.

Still, there was value in having a laptop much thinner and lighter than what existed before.

But a phone even thinner that what we already have? It's completely pointless.

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Post by op00to »

rectang wrote: post #80
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

I used to hate Airpods in videochats since they made the person wearing them sound bad because of dropouts, had heinous latency, and frequently disconnected causing meeting interruptions. But people think they're "better" than [wired] Earpods, which have none of those problems. /me shakes fist at cloud

I've literally never seen any of those problems with Airpods in my meetings, and I'm in meetings A LOT. I can't remember the last time someone joined with audio issues in general!

I personally use a Plantronics DECT headset which is ~12 years old and on its third battery, but otherwise an excellent workhorse. If I couldn't get another one of these headsets, I'd probably move to Airpods.

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Post by op00to »

fragmede wrote: post #118
Marsymars wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I could do so, I would mandate that everyone at my workplace must use a wired headset with a boom mic for every Teams call.

You're fucking disgusting. You'd force people to use Teams?

I love the skeumorphic campfire style room layout of Teams, with the talking heads. It's hilarious.

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

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Post by asimovfan »

alexey-salmin wrote: post #302
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…

>> 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 ma…

people will sell their things and buy it. especially now that it seems to have this epithet that it is for "people who want the best camera array and have money to burn"

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Post by Marsymars »

fragmede wrote: post #118
Marsymars wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I could do so, I would mandate that everyone at my workplace must use a wired headset with a boom mic for every Teams call.

You're fucking disgusting. You'd force people to use Teams?

Hah, I laughed. But seriously, I don’t love Teams overall, but for business video conferencing, what’s actually better? I’d take Teams over Zoom or Google Meet. Haven’t tried any others.

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Post by fkyoureadthedoc »

blitzar wrote: post #226
avidiax wrote: post #15

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Apple is a hostage of its own marketing. A modular iphone that has an easy to replace battery, easy to replace screen and is maybe 2mm thicker to account for it? That would be a sellout. A convertible Macbook Air with a touch screen? It would be sold out. Neckband-style airpods with all-day battery life? Might not sell out, but would be popular. A best-in-class TV powered by Apple TV? Would probably sell well. But al…

100% disagree - they all sound like terrible products for various reasons. Apple will probably try and make some of them at some point. They product they won't make ... the $400 iPhone.

> $400 iPhone

iPhone SE was around for ages

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