I’m trying to imagine having any part of my identity tied to an object.
I’ve had people tell me they won’t text me because of the green chat bubbles.
Idk. Consumers will consume.
I wonder what it’s like to still feel like this is relevant
Dude’s got jokes from before the twin towers fell
You may not realize it, but unless we’re talking processors Apple almost always puts old tech in their devices.
Their laptops still sell with 8gb of slow RAM, and tiny hard drives. This is an upsell tactic so you pay them extortionate amounts for cheap upgrades. Then their computers… Oh man, just don’t. They sell
that’s $1,000, do we even need to go into the rest?
Even their phones STILL lack the latest features of their competitors. Though most competitors have vastly given up dramatic innovations. Check out the cameras, the screen refresh rates, the RAM, the screen brightness, and side-by-side user comparison testing of their poorly performing GPU’s.
I’m not a Mac stan by any measure. It just feels like a tired bit. How are people still laughing about this?
I’m not laughing… I find the whole thing kind of depressing. Real talk, though… I’m just as pissed off at Google and many other huge companies.
I’m tired of huge companies exploiting the ignorance of average folks and damaging the progression of consumer technology. We deserve better than this.
If Apple sold their products for a pittence, I’d be their absolute biggest fan. They not only push aggressively overpriced tech, but they convince impressionable people to buy into their “ecosystem”.
What the heck is that, even? What is their “ecosystem”? Macs, iPads and iphones all work with windows and Linux. Heck, Mac IS Linux at a core level. I’ll tell you what it is… George Carlin give me strength, because “it’s all bullshit, and it’s BAD for you.”
Mac is not Linux. They’re similar, but not the same
I never claimed Linux and Mac were exactly the same. They are both kernals of UNIX. Though they differ, they use the same “core”.
I get my MacBooks from employers. That’s it.
They’re way better than the shitbox windows machines most companies hand out.
Never buy Mac shit yourself
Same. I’d never buy one, but man are they nicer than anything else I’ve had.
What is this the 2010’s again? Why are so many people shitting on people’s choices? If you like something then do it. End of story. If someone gives you shit for that they are the asshole
Y’all need to get over yourselves
I’m sorry, but no. Apple is more than a “choice” - they have been damaging the progress of consumer technology for over a decade now. Their success in selling overpriced, dated, and uninnovative technology has driven all their competition to avoid “risky” innovation, and to mimic low-cost, consumer-hostile practices.
It’s okay to shit on a company. What you’re doing is defending a focused attack on a brand. Get over yourself. Apple doesn’t need your help, they are the wealthiest company in the entire world right now.
The title says apple users but sure take the least graceful interpretation of things since this is Lemmy
Who made you butthurt OP?
Did you pull this out of 2011? Even as a lifelong Android user with no plans of switching, I realize that there are certain features of the Apple ecosystem that blow Android out of the water. Even the top-line Samsung S23U photo processing looks like a shitty DSLR compared to whatever iPhone is out now.
Shitty DSLR?
Not sure why they used this term. A DSLR is a camera most often used by professionals in the industry.
Digital single lense reflex cameras, such as the Canon 5d Mk IV, are still excellent cameras that outperform their smaller sensored counterparts in phones.
This said, many like myself have moved on to mirrorless in recent years. I’m not sure I miss anything other than the satisfying “click” from my DSLR’s.
Idk in the comparison between Pixel 8 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro i actually much prefer the Pixel, but maybe that’s just my taste.
ehh cameras are basically on-par now
the processors on the other hand…no competition by FAR both on phones and laptops. sadly there’s too many downsides for me to consider getting them
So, as a professional, working photographer I can tell you this comment makes no sense to me.
I’ve only bought two Samsung phones over the last ten years, but they have never failed to make the best mobile phone camera since I started keeping track in 2013.
It seems like you’re talking specifically about processing, so perhaps that’s the hangup here… I focus on RAW, and use other specialty services to process. You can never go wrong with Samsung (so far) if you want to best potential RAW image.
Even a shitty (okay, maybe most like my D5300) DSLR beats any phone with proper lenses any day.
ecosystem used as tech word
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Much better to use a phone running an os built by an advertising company who decided that “don’t be evil” just isn’t them anymore.
A product isn’t just what parts go inside.
“Hey man, this bad thing that X group does isn’t actually bad because their main competition, Y group, does something different that is also bad.”
