I think he's talking about the airpods which are not a product I'm a fan of. The iPhones I've had generally good experience with however I won't buy one with a notch in the screen. I really don't understand the obsession with an edge to edge screen at all costs.
Planned obsolescence - make things as fragile as possible, hard to replace wear parts (batteries, USB connectors, etc.), glass back as well as front just to ensure something breaks if dropped... and of course, goad the majority into feeling important by replacing their phones every couple of years at a "reassuringly expensive" price... The only place to be is a shareholder in that game!
Hardly. The batteries last an incredibly long amount of time, are replaceable. There are no USB connectors. Glass back you need for wireless charging and it’s not fragile. And if it is, meh AppleCare lol. I expect to get 18 months of life out of something like that. Well it turns out our oldest iPhone is 5 years old and still works .
People love to hate. Some of us love to just use the damn things and quit whining.
One thing that really gets me is a friend of mine who will never buy an iPhone because it’s too expensive but spends £700 a year on service for his Mercedes E class which is used to go to the supermarket and drop the kids off at school. Whiners. Whiners everywhere.
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You I wouldn’t but AirPods. Stupid idea. Disposable status symbols
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I think he's talking about the airpods which are not a product I'm a fan of. The iPhones I've had generally good experience with however I won't buy one with a notch in the screen. I really don't understand the obsession with an edge to edge screen at all costs.
Planned obsolescence - make things as fragile as possible, hard to replace wear parts (batteries, USB connectors, etc.), glass back as well as front just to ensure something breaks if dropped... and of course, goad the majority into feeling important by replacing their phones every couple of years at a "reassuringly expensive" price... The only place to be is a shareholder in that game!
Hardly. The batteries last an incredibly long amount of time, are replaceable. There are no USB connectors. Glass back you need for wireless charging and it’s not fragile. And if it is, meh AppleCare lol. I expect to get 18 months of life out of something like that. Well it turns out our oldest iPhone is 5 years old and still works .
People love to hate. Some of us love to just use the damn things and quit whining.
One thing that really gets me is a friend of mine who will never buy an iPhone because it’s too expensive but spends £700 a year on service for his Mercedes E class which is used to go to the supermarket and drop the kids off at school. Whiners. Whiners everywhere.
Can't they use a VPN?
Adobe is prevented by law from doing business with the government of Venezuela or certain persons on a list maintained by the Secretary of the Treasury. If those individuals or the government is suspected of using VPNs Adobe will blacklist all non-American VPN providers. (American ones will be subject to the same laws.) All non-American VPN providers will stop and think if the value of selling access to a bunch of criminals in Venezuela outweighs being blacklisted by just about every American business from Facebook and Google to Netflix is going to be worth it - because they will instantly lose 90% of their business if that happens. If they run any sort of serious business they'll drop Venezuela like a hot potato as well. Technically you can do business with individuals not on the sanctions list, but you know you're going to spend all your time shutting down shell fronts and there is a substantial risk that one day some media piece pops up pointing to you as facilitating crimes against humanity.
To be fair the disposable nature of electronics is simply due to lack of Environmental legislation. US and China are worst at that
[The Germans]got rid of all their nuclear power stations and are big adopters of solar energy. The EU might be a pain in the arse with RoHS and RED compliance, but in the end it does make environmental sense.
It is a real awakening to try out some old 90's and 00's applications on a modern computer - they work SOO fast. Sadly, all the hardware goodness that we have today has been totally taken over and mostly wasted by a lot of modern software.
The same effect is true with monitors... today's GUI designers are not able to get more information on a 4K, 48 inch monitor than what was common on a VGA monitor in the 80's (i.e. 25 lines of text. Try looking at an eBay search today, you get 3 or 4 search results per page... compared to the 25 you would have seen in the 80's (if eBay had existed!) ).
Agreed. And it's a complete illustration of Wirth's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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An interesting thing is that it actually lowers the users' expectations, while getting them used to buying new hardware on a regular basis. A marvel for marketers: lowered expectations, and lowered defense against frenetic consumption.
So I don't think this tendency will ever change, unless our whole economic model changes as well.
Well, at least we own our terminals, a nice shinny glass back smart phone... and, we no longer need an acoustic coupler to use the phone line for data.
So it’s the only way of creating a reliable income.
I don't see anything wrong with subscription business models inherently.
or because you think the price will jump significantly
The brain damage comes in when...
It is a real awakening to try out some old 90's and 00's applications on a modern computer - they work SOO fast. Sadly, all the hardware goodness that we have today has been totally taken over and mostly wasted by a lot of modern software.
The same effect is true with monitors... today's GUI designers are not able to get more information on a 4K, 48 inch monitor than what was common on a VGA monitor in the 80's (i.e. 25 lines of text. Try looking at an eBay search today, you get 3 or 4 search results per page... compared to the 25 you would have seen in the 80's (if eBay had existed!) ).
[...] It's no wonder they had to try to make Office subscription, there is less reason to upgrade software than ever, especially basic productivity tools.