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PlainName:

--- Quote from: tooki ---That article is an opinion piece
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Which turns out to be good enough when you want to push your point but not for anything else.

On the other hand the author is "Lynn Stout, the distinguished professor of corporate and business law at Cornell Law School", and I reckon her opinion is rather more pertinent than your repetition of an Internet myth.

Marco:

--- Quote from: tooki on August 09, 2022, 11:39:28 am ---I’ve worked for Apple, and can say with confidence that they do have goals beyond just making money. (And in some areas, like supplier responsibility and environmental impact, Apple is far ahead of any competitor.)

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The Apple board condones people in the company to try to achieve goals which seemingly serve some greater good while costing the company money directly ... because it makes the company money indirectly. Apple is in a position to spend money to seem more charitable due to their margins and size. Adopting more ambitious green/humanitarian goals and semi-forcing that on their competitors, who don't have the scale or margins to achieve them as efficiently as Apple, can have a competitive advantage. A more positive brand also helps them to fight off regulators etc.

But they of course only condone it up to a point, which is to say until it starts costing the company money in the greater scheme of things. So when push comes to shove and appeasing a totalitarian regime improves the bottom line, they will come up with any convenient excuse at hand to do what everyone also does ... because principles are fine for show, but they aren't a charity. They act better sometimes because it is part of their business model, assigning morality to it is deeply naive.

gamalot:
It was started 10+ years ago but was not strictly enforced, and was used as a reaction to what happened recently.

Kasper:

--- Quote from: tooki on August 09, 2022, 04:48:34 pm ---

--- Quote from: Kasper on August 09, 2022, 02:25:34 pm ---They must be doing some amazing stuff then, to make up for the fact that they have more versions of charge cables than average [...]

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How is that any more complex than what other brands have, between micro USB, mini USB, USB-C, and various specialty plugs on the device end, and USB A, USB-C, or micro USB OTG on the charger end? It’s a comparable matrix of combinations, if not bigger.

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Take number of USB cable models and divide by number of companies that use them.  Then do the same with lightning cables.

Imagine if every company acted like apple and each one had their own cables.


--- Quote from: tooki on August 09, 2022, 04:48:34 pm ---

--- Quote from: Kasper on August 09, 2022, 02:25:34 pm ---they don't make it easy to replace batteries

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Nor do most competitors, and unlike the competitors, Apple has a large network of its own stores, resellers, and a mail-in program, all of which replace the battery quickly and at reasonable cost.

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I'm no phone connoisseur but I think easily replaceable batteries are less common than they used to be.  Perhaps apple set the trend and others followed.  If that is the case then apple deserves even more blame.



--- Quote from: tooki on August 09, 2022, 04:48:34 pm ---

--- Quote from: Kasper on August 09, 2022, 02:25:34 pm ---and they purposefully slow down older devices.

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This isn’t true, and it never was.

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Tell it to the judge.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay-113-million-to-settle-batterygate-case-over-iphone-slowdowns


--- Quote from: tooki on August 09, 2022, 04:48:34 pm --- Ever since then, every iOS update has maintained performance really well.

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Ever since they got caught.

magic:

--- Quote from: deadlylover on August 09, 2022, 05:05:45 pm ---Well at least we can all agree the best thing Apple makes is their stock, we probably all owe a decent chunk of our retirements to them.

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Unless China pulls the plug like Putin :P
You will retire with nothing and you will be happy :D

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