WTF is wrong with Apple?

[Deleted]

So they want to get rid of wired headphone usability due to design? Can you link a source on that please? I'd like to read it.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3055208/i...er-and-simpler

[abracmike]

Planned obsolescence is a good thing. Idiots who insist on trying to use 5 year old crap holds the rest of us back from getting new stuff because anything new has to support old shit too limiting new features. Its why windows sucked for years and why Blizzard refuses to go all in in graphical features. They want people using 15 year old emachines running Windows XP to still be able to play the game, meanwhile those of us with good computers running quad titans, 64GB of RAM, and i7 extreme CPUs from experiencing graphical heaven.

People shouldnt be using 5 year old phones

Funny given that you complained about exactly this in relation to tires the other day...
Anyway, if the machine still works, what's wrong with that?
In the case of Blizzard, it's their choice to support old shit like that.
And before you counter claim about the tires thing, computers are generally not a safety related thing. In the case that they are, then yes I agree they shouldn't neccessarily be too old. (How old I'm not interested in attempting to quantify right now).

[Djriff]

They're moving audio to the Lightning connector.

So fuck listening to music and charging your phone at the same time I guess

But wireless charging! That's just stupid, who's bright idea was that?

http://www.fastcompany.com/3055208/i...er-and-simpler

Appreciate it. I'm kind of dubious about this source, silliest idea ever.

[Inukashi]

I have an Apple and yeah. If it was just the hardware it would be really overpriced. I can get a much cheapter windows PC, BUT

Apple OSx is much more performant than a Windows OS. My WoW runs a lot better on my 5k Monitor on Mac, than on Windows (I have dualboot on my iMac). WoW Just lags because Windows can't really handle 5k Monitors. It has a Problem with a lot of Programms and you can read about this in some forums, e.g. teamspeak forum (yeah, windows can't display teamspeak right on 5k monitor if you use scaling)
There is so many small Problems that just make me go away from Windows (installing dev tools like nodejs, gem) and getting a virus on osx is really hard. Windows can get a Virus if you open an Image with corrupted headers.
But what alternatives do you have? Linux and Osx.. and since I work as a Consultant and Managing Director I need my laptop to always work and osx/apple is the only device that never let me down. Linux has Problems with some Software that is used from time to time in different companies.
I can't visit a customer of mine and say 'yeah sorry I can't connect to your vpn because there is no supported citrix client for your citrix version'.
I'm not paying for high performance hardware. I'm paying for high performance software and stability and that's totally worth it if you use your laptop/pc for working.
For Gaming the only problem is that osx doesnt have directX, else it would be the better gaming os, but since I only play Blizzard games the only game I need to switch to windows for is Overwatch. Everything else runs better on osx.

[Kujako]

They also made FAKE holes to mimic the other side where the speaker is, to appear symetric.

No... the other hole is the mic.

[Tabrotar]

I´m really glad that i never owned a Apple pruduct and never ever will evenm if they´re the only ones who will build smartphones or computers.
I would even let the world burn before i ever touch one of their shitty products.

[Kujako]

I´m really glad that i never owned a Apple pruduct and never ever will evenm if they´re the only ones who will build smartphones or computers.
I would even let the world burn before i ever touch one of their shitty products.

Again, seems exhausting to carry around so much hate for a company...

[Djriff]

I´m really glad that i never owned a Apple pruduct and never ever will evenm if they´re the only ones who will build smartphones or computers.
I would even let the world burn before i ever touch one of their shitty products.

I'd go back to a flip phone if they were the only ones left.

[Belize]

I'd go back to a flip phone if they were the only ones left.

Man, porn on flipphone browsers was the worst...

No thanks.

[Djriff]

Man, porn on flipphone browsers was the worst...

No thanks.

Well i'll still have my kindle. Does that classify as a smart phone device?

[ItachiZaku]

People shouldnt be using 5 year old phones

Or fucking 5 year old vaginas.

Did I do that right?

[Aeluron Lightsong]

People keep buying their stuff. There's probably something to it. I don't own an Apple product, nor do I think I ever will. Unless I win the lottery

[unbound]

TBH, Apple has always been this way. They make pretty stuff, and, it is generally decent quality...but if you do a cost-benefit analysis, Apple has never been a good deal.

The reason people's perception of Apple has been sliding is because Steve Jobs was a PR powerhouse. He made people believe Apple products that were objectively no better than the competitor's (in some cases, actually objectively worse) were substantially better than anything else on the planet.

Basically, people got sold a bill of goods. Now that the PR is fading away, they are starting to realize it...but are erroneously thinking that this just happened...

[breadisfunny]

I'd go back to a flip phone if they were the only ones left.

i love flip phones. i despise smart phones. they are stupid looking and fragile. have no use for gaming on a phone.

[ItachiZaku]

I worked with a G4 back at my college internship. I liked it, back then on a PC you had to reboot like every few hours or once a day, but the G4 "we'd reboot once a month, we'd feel guilty otherwise" is what they told me. Now, my PC will reboot itself at 3am once every 3-4 months for quarterly updates.

At least with a mac, you are getting a finished product of sorts. A PC, you really don't buy them anymore, you have them build (build yourself unless you are a puss puss). If you are ultra lazy, you can just get a laptop, since those run all games pretty well - you just have to customize a tickle to get your external 40s running through it (what, $40 dock).

[Djriff]

i love flip phones. i despise smart phones. they are stupid looking and fragile. have no use for gaming on a phone.

I use it mainly as a time sink if I'm sitting around and waiting on something. It's good to read books on the go as well considering it fits in my pocket.

[Jotaux]

A PC, you really don't buy them anymore, you have them build (build yourself unless you are a puss puss).

I tried building a PC myself but couldn't get it to work when I did a test boot. It turned out the BIOS had to be updated to use the processor I purchased. I just had a computer store nearby build it for me for $50.

[Deleted]

apple are the worst company ever, the overcharge for there products which is nothing new, an iphone' s parts are not worth £700, with that £700 i could buy a pretty decent PC

[ItachiZaku]

I tried building a PC myself but couldn't get it to work when I did a test boot. It turned out the BIOS had to be updated to use the processor I purchased. I just had a computer store nearby build it for me for $50.

That's not bad deal there. That's the only issue I've seen, is when the bios needs a flash, the motherboards are so tidy compared to 20 years ago. Color coordinated and shit. Kids got it easy nowadays.

[Sorshen]

i love flip phones. i despise smart phones. they are stupid looking and fragile. have no use for gaming on a phone.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_w201...news-20094.php