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As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance::Apple, which is set to release a new iPhone on Tuesday, has increased its share of smartphone sales by converting Android customers and adding teenagers.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I'm just opposed to their brand ethos. They always complicate things in the name of simplicity.

apple mice have 1 button to click, and that this decision was made (in the 80s) because they thought 2 button mice would confuse the average user.

... and now apple users command + click all the time, like that isn't more complicated.

That's not why I hate apple, but it is why I hate apple. They perpetually put the cart before the horse.

"We stopped including a charger in the box to help the environment"

Actually this means more boxes are being created in total and this is worse for the environment. 🤦‍♂️

Edit: God you apple stans are annoying af. I guess y'all are just an extension of their obnoxious ethos lol.

[–] LifeInOregon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple Mice have had right click for 14 years, and their trackpads have used two finger click in its place far longer than that. And before that, any two button mouse worked just fine in OS X from 2001 on (earlier if you ran the beta of OS X). So your information is anywhere from two decades to one and a half decades out of date. Well done.

[–] EddieTee77@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

I agree with you and the OP of this thread. I don't want to support a company with a walled garden approach and they over complicate things to be unique

[–] akafester@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"We stopped including a charger in the box to help the environment"

Actually this means more boxes are being created in total and this is worse for the environment.

How so? That thought only works if you think they still manufacture the same amount of chargers and package them. Which would be pretty dumb given that they aren’t guaranteed a sell. Also, who doesn’t have a bunch of different chargers already?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] akafester@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots of ‘mights’ and ‘ifs’. No concrete evidence. Also they write that it might spread out across lots of manufacturers. And not only that, this is an article from when the iPhone 12 got released, which was the first to include a USB-C to lightning adding to the worry.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Again, you're free to use Google and continue your research yourself. There are lots of them. I took the top result, I didn't vet it because the mountain of evidence is overwhelming.

Cheers.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao, are you forgetting they also changed the cable from standard usb to lightning to USB c to lightning after they stopped including the brick?

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, because everything is transitioning to USB-C and that’s a good thing. They made that switch when they removed USB A ports from their Macs.

[–] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They only made the jump to USB-C because they were forced to. They would have loved to stay on their proprietary hardware for as long as possible.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Rumor is they wanted to wait to go portless. In current state Qi chargers work on iPhones but they don’t charge as quickly as their proprietary MagSafe connector which I find ridiculous so I’m glad they had to add a standard port

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That doesn't invalidate my point at all.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Apple stans gonna stan.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It does create less waste. If someone buys an iPad, Apple Watch, and iPhone they can charge them all off one usbc brick. Doesn’t need to be Apple brand. I use an Anker one myself. Same thing with their cheap headphones that used to come with the phone. I had accumulated a bunch of crappy headphones I never used over the course of a decade.

[–] thattysonguy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Speaking of annoying af. Look at you, you're the same. You're not anti-apple, you're just pro-anti.