| > It is true that they could easily create devices to match the requirements of randoms on Hacker News, but that isn't going to lead to Apple - the once in a decade consumer products behemoth. It leads to the Openmoko. Turns out nearly nobody wants that. This fallacy seems to be common in discussions of Apple. Apple is very profitable, therefore everything they do is infallible and impossible to improve. Look at a picture of an Openmoko device. Just look at it. Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko Compare this to various modern phones with a replaceable battery: https://www.androidauthority.com/best-android-phones-removab... There are obvious reasons to expect the former to fail in the market but not the latter, even though they all have a replaceable battery. Meanwhile the Apple devices further run iOS and are compatible with iMessage and the complete set of third party iOS apps, which are a large component of their success, but none of which would be any less true if they had a replaceable battery. Doing a lot of things right can't prove that they're not doing a specific thing wrong. |
Rather, they are iterating upon the same few products with a zillion engineers in eensy weensy form factors where space is at a premium, so they probably think about why they do things a certain way.