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    -91 year ago

    Apple is obviously the worst offender, but it’s just horrible when you have really great hardware that’s 100% worthless just because the software is unsupported and proprietary.

    How so? Because they produce hardware that one would actually like to use after firmware updates cease? They provide updates the longest and are evidently not worthless, as they have higher resale values than Android devices the same age.

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      131 year ago

      None of that matters. Open hardware from 2003 still works because of course it still works. Apple is artificially bricking hardware for profit.

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        -41 year ago

        What is Apple bricking and in which way is it worse than any other android OEM that provides updates for shorter?

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          1 year ago

          Apple stops updating devices and their phones are locked down and their macs are only really supported by proprietary software eventually losing functionality artificially.

          Yes other companies are immoral and anti consumer. At least some Android devices let you install custom software making them easily outlive locked down ones.

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            -21 year ago

            Every intel Mac lets you install Linux too. M1 is well on its way.

            As for phones: Apple provides updates longer than any android manufacturer. In android phones you too have non unlocked bootloaders as well as proprietary firmware blobs without which operating the phone is near impossible.

            So I see no Dimension in which Apple is the worst.

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              31 year ago

              You keep playing this comparison game…

              The iPhone is full of anti consumer patterns, it simply is, and no external factors excuse this.

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                01 year ago

                Of course I am comparing. Op stated Apple is the worst offender which only has meaning in comparison.

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              21 year ago

              not necessarily manufacturers but the open source community can support 10 year old phones with new security updates like the LG G2 and Samsung Galaxy Note 3 LTE. https://doc.e.foundation/devices

              On IPhones there is not really such a community because apple aggressively screws people for profit and will stay to do so in the future because that works.
              Other companies copied Apples design choices like unmovable batteries because that works. And some fans argue “but not replace batteries are more water proof” and such but the phones only got more fragile.

              And its not like they are the best in customer service, i mean they only offered repairs for design flaws when a lot of people sued them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8&t=801s&pp=ygUUbG91aXMgcm9zc21hbm4gYXBwbGU%3D (25 minute video by Louis Rossmann about apples repeated design failures)

              And for the M1, i looked into it, nice that they don’t lock the boot-loader without jailbreak. But they don’t help with the OS, that again is the open source community.

              And you are right: Apple is not the worst, Nestlé is the worst but a completely different topic.

              I know that the products of apple are very user friendly and everything can like work together. The software is brilliantly comfortable so that a users don’t want to use everything else, because how comfortable it is. For me it is a trap by a greedy mega cooperation.