[benoau]

Downplaying how much Apple fought to prevent R2R around the world.

Meanwhile Steam chose to make the Steam Deck as reparable as possible then revised it to be even easier.

Both of these options exist, but Apple is one of the greediest companies in the world.

[maeil]

~80% of publicly listed multinationals are roughly as greedy as each other, and Apple belongs to that 80%. Then there's 10% in each opposite direction. Pretty standard 80/10/10.

Apple could easily be even greedier if they'd wish, and get away with it. Even accounting for their intentional obstruction to repairs, I bet the active lifespan of the average iPhone and M-series Macbook are longer than the average Samsung flagship, and certainly comparable laptops.

I have no particular attachment to Apple, I currently use only one of their products. But they're just one among the grey cloud of awfulness, nothing special about them when it comes to greed.

[nindalf]

Apple historically haven't been great, but they're getting better now. I know people don't want to give credit for that because it didn't happen of their own volition, only when they were incentivised.

Me personally, I've never gotten to the 3 year mark on a smartphone and remained happy with it before my current iPhone 12. They would break, or stop receiving updates or have abysmal battery life or become too slow - literally none of these are issues I'm facing. I'll probably keep this for another year before replacing it with the iPhone 17.

[bryanlarsen]

My Android from 2020 still mostly feels like a new phone too.

[kaba0]

Steam is not publicly traded, though. Apple can’t really say no to “more profit”, otherwise they will be immediately made to resign.

[benoau]

They give money away, and they actually reduced their fees for the apps with almost no transactions, so obviously they have a fair bit of wiggle-room on what is an acceptable quantity of profit.

[chongli]

That was in response to court cases and regulatory threats. It wasn’t some choice they made out of the blue.