Gotta love that, the devices users pay the largest markup for and apple choose cost saving measures over functionality. I guess as long as the user base continues to accept mistreatment that is exactly what they will get.
Yeah, a "cost-saving" measure on a device selling for upwards of $1000 and with a huge profit margin. Sold by one of the richest corporations in the world.
"Profit-saving" measure is the proper word here.
As you said however, gullible Apple fans deserve it. "There's a sucker born every minute" - and at least every 5 minutes it's an Apple fanboy.
As an Apple user I have to agree that there are not many compelling reasons left to upgrade. With many of the older models, Apple brought something exciting that was worth having: good performance upgrades, a convenient and secure (compared to the competition) fingerprint scanner, nice designs, better cameras... not necessarily being ahead of Android competitors, but still good reasons to get a new phone if you prefer iOS like I do. But the last few years have brought very little that I want. The phones
Yeah I've got a 5S which usually works fine, but is occasionally slow enough at something that I consider replacing it, but if I'm going to lose my headphone jack I want at least a USB-C so I have something standard on it. Do any of the android phones continue to get patches and support as long as Apple yet?
Go with a pixel, it's got stock android, with no extra bloat ware, and gets the updates first, and the over the longest time period since they are googles own phones. You don't have a headphone jack, but you do have usb-c and with the pixel 3 you get wireless charging again, they dropped that for a few years.
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Yeah, a "cost-saving" measure on a device selling for upwards of $1000 and with a huge profit margin. Sold by one of the richest corporations in the world.
"Profit-saving" measure is the proper word here.
As you said however, gullible Apple fans deserve it. "There's a sucker born every minute" - and at least every 5 minutes it's an Apple fanboy.
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