[Siddarth1977]

This is a weird take. I can certainly tell all sorts of differences between Apple and non-Apple products.

A short list of the major things that I think set Apple-quality apart: Zero effort towards backward-compatibility or longevity, just force users to buy new hardware constantly. Actively hostile towards hardware interoperability, just force users to buy adapters. Actively hostile towards independently developed software and interoperability, just steal ideas to incorporate into an apple-owned product or use marketing to convince your users they're superior for being locked into your platform. Don't bother to make software that works for diverse users, just use marketing to convince users that flexibility and functionality are inferior to whatever the Cupertino designers decree is the one right way to do things

Apple isn't a technology company, they're a fashion company. They can sell an iPhone for huge premiums for the same reason that Chanel can sell a purse for $10,000. It's not a product-quality question, it's a brand-quality question.

[mcphage]

> Zero effort towards backward-compatibility or longevity, just force users to buy new hardware constantly.

Is that why you can install iOS 16 (the most recent version) on an iPhone 8 from 2017?

[calciphus]

It's why you can't install the same app that worked on your iPhone 8 when you bought it, today. It's the reason you can't install one that worked two years ago unless the developer is constantly keeping up with Apple's mercurial and inscrutable os-level API changes. Apple breaks APIs regularly and you're left hoping a dev wants to do free work to keep it working for people who already bought it.

Edit: clarity

[such12]

> Zero effort towards backward-compatibility or longevity, just force users to buy new hardware constantly.

This can't be taken seriously as a comment given that iPhones are typically supported with software upgrades for twice as long as Android phones.