| You can easily see a totally different perspective on all of these if you try a little. > You can't repair your device. Everything is increasingly integrated for dust/water proofing, components are integrated to reduce the power envelope and push performance. Repairability is the tradeoff. > They're intently focused on locking you in as much as possible All of their products and services are tightly integrated and have privileged access to hardware that would be insecure to open to 3rd parties. > They try their best to force app developers to pay them their 30% tax, even when the devs brought the customers in from elsewhere. If you want to list on their marketplace it's not unreasonable to expect to pay for access. We can haggle on the fairness of 30% > They, for so long, refused to support RCS and downgraded the messaging experience with android. As a consumer I just can't possibly be made to care about this. > They were trying to intentionally downgrade SPAs so people again need to go through their app store. SPAs perform poorly and eat battery life and have super heterogeneous user experiences, I don't want them on my phone. As a consumer I like that they don't open the gates on the phone ecosystem to all of the absolute slop we see on android. |
> Everything is increasingly integrated for dust/water proofing, components are integrated to reduce the power envelope and push performance. Repairability is the tradeoff.
This is a fair point. But when I hear "you can't repair your device" I also think "you can't take it to someone of your choice to repair", which is often true, too, even though that limitation is artificial - witness the Rossmans and others of the world who can absolutely repair these devices. There's a whole YouTube channel of a guy who makes ASMR videos of him doing things like removing iPhone/iPad/MBP storage and replacing it with large capacity chips.