Apple’s Tim Cook to unveil reasons why your current iPhone is already a piece of shit
Apple’s Tim Cook to unveil reasons why your current iPhone is already a piece of shit
Given most of the “upgrades” are AI bullshit I’ll gladly keep my POS phone, thanks
Last year's 'upgrade' was a strip of titanium around the case. They seem to be running out of ideas. Definitely not worth the insane price tag.
How else are you suppose to identify the poors?
Lol. Still trucking along on my iPhone X.
Same actually, and a refurb m1. That’s not to say apple doesn’t use predatory tactics, and hard agree with complaining about laptops sold with 8gb of ram. I use windows, Mac, and Linux daily, and for my devices I want to last and not worry about, I go apple.
While OSX is very memory efficient, it’s insane that my 2011 MacBook Pro has 16GB of RAM and you can buy a laptop with half of that 13 years later.
+1 for the M1, went for a refurb on a whim and it was the first time in a while I genuinely felt like I was living in the future. That thing can run Stray at more than competent frame rates and still be dead silent and lukewarm to the touch. It's like a big Steam Deck
They made a Twitter version iPhone?!
XR for me.
Honestly the biggest issue that was pushing me to update was that my podcatcher had been getting laggier and slower to respond to remote commands when minimized. I thought it was a ram constraint, but the developer refactored the 10 year old code base last month and now it’s zippy as heck.
Now, my only issues are ones expected of any phone of its age: battery wear (repairable), RAM limiting minimized persistence of modern apps (no compelling leap until maybe this year) and storage space (manageable). I am looking forward to MagSafe, USB-C, Oled and left behind support for AirPods whenever I eventually do upgrade.
I had a XR until 18 months ago, and honestly, it was still a solid device. But part of the good thing about using an iPhone is how well they hold their value, so I made the choice to sell it while it was still worth £150. Put that towards a 13 mini which will serve me nicely for a couple more years yet.
I was planning on upgrading my iPhone 12 but I think I’ll wait another year.
As an Android user, I completely agree with this statement but probably for different reasons.
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Agreed! Might be better phrased as,
"We've made so many advancements that 2023 Tim Cook would look at 2024 Tim Cook utterly horrified at his own ineptitude, and look at a mirror while holding up a big L on his forehead before giving himself an atomic wedgie.
I'm not a fan of the whole "atomic wedgie" bit either, feels dated
Eh, the headline is the only good part of this satire article...I much prefer The Onion as their satire articles are way better!
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Crapple heads will buy anything their programmers tell them to.
See you say this, but anyone who bought a cheapo Galaxy S20 in 2020, stopped receiving major Android version updates in 2022 whereas anyone who bought an iPhone XS or XR in 2018, will still get a major iOS version update in 2024...
Oh wait, what's this, the S20 was a flagship device, comparable or more expensive than the iPhone 12 at the time? Well that's a bit embarrassing...
"but ive gotta keep buying their products because I'm already in the ecosystem...so it's just easier at this point" -The common cope
"I'll downvote people who point out my behavior"\ The common cope
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"I don't like things that are different"
It should be criminal that so many laptops they sold the past few years have 8gb of ram.
All of those people will be looking to upgrade within a year, which is the plan...
Apple just can't resist making ridiculous margins from their customers, even when their devices do allow for upgrades to the default configuration.
For instance, with a Mac Pro, you have to pay an extra $800 to go from 64gb to 128gb of memory. For $800, you could get about 384gb of ram in 64gb sticks from a different vendor.
Dude, “640k is enough for anyone.”
I know it’s an unpopular opinion in these parts, but honestly, 8gb is often fine for the people who are buying entry level machines.
I use a 2014 Mac mini for work, which has 8gb of soldered RAM. For sure I’d increase it to 16gb if I could, but I honestly can’t say I have any issues with it. It’s running Sonoma via OCLP like a champ.
But yeah, what Apple charge for RAM is downright criminal.
What’s the different between you shilling ram today and them shilling upgrades tomorrow ?
Does someone tie your shoes for you or are they Velcro?
The software of today is more demanding than the hardware. You have to increase the hardware to have a good user experience.
The upgrades that they are shilling are neither hardware nor software upgrades. They are just an addition of Learning Language Models (LLMs) that only give information based on statistical data and sentence structures. This is why many of the AI chat bots out there are extremely unreliable.
The integration of Ai into user devices is, simply, a waste of user storage, hardware, processing power, and bogs down a system that is already running at capacity due to the hardware limitations (not increasing the standard RAM amount).