SnowdenHeroOfOurTime @ SnowdenHeroOfOurTime @unilem.org

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Except you can buy a pixel A series which will work just as well as the most expensive iPhone just slightly slower. I'm at about 3.5 years on a $350 pixel and still it's the best phone I've owned. Yes I know you can buy cheaper iPhones too but aren't they phasing that out? Like you now normally would have to buy a 1-2 year old model to get a price similar to that. My pixel was brand new and 4-5 months past release I think

By sane standards, yes. By apple standards nope totally normal. I'd love to know how many billions they've made on cables and dongles which were only necessary because of intentional decisions they made. I probably would vomit though.

Also would be curious, how many people suffered or died due to not being able to charge their phone where a standard charger was available or vice versa for Android users?

I've been scoffed at for this idea before, but interoperability is extremely important, especially when you are talking about a major piece of society's infrastructure. And phones ARE that. It's hard to know the downstream effects of shit like this. All we know is that at best, millions of times people have had this conversation, needlessly as fuck:

"hey do you have a phone charger? I need a lightning cable." "No I only have usb-c" (or vice versa)

The best outcome you can hope for is having to think about this and be annoyed several times in your life. For years I refused to buy lightning cables but due to several factors I have ended up needing to buy like 7 lightning cables despite never buying a single apple product that requires one.

And no, apple simps, I give not one shred of a fuck about your apple apologias, fuck off with them. Micro USB was better in the same way a qwerty keyboard is better. technically it's inferior, but that doesn't matter AT ALL, because 1) it's a standard, and 2) it works.

Your username is terrifying

Yeah and they don't ask, it's opt in.

I stopped reading this novel when you claimed you've had hundreds of rides but 3 women drivers. That's not very believable. I'd say 20-30% of my drivers have been female, out of dozens of rides.

.... what exactly is your point here?

48" is still small by many people's standards. My TV isn't particularly large and I think it's a 52"

Actually I think a lot of people do upgrade their TVs somewhat often, as stupid as that is. I will be clinging to my dumb TV for dear life as long as possible, but I feel like people are very consumerist these days. TVs have gotten cheap enough that they feel able to.

It goes without saying that no one should have to buy a new TV because there is a bunch of trashy software on it, but I'm sure it's already happened enough to incentivise these assholes' bad behavior

It has the advantage of making them millions on cables and licenses. Stop pretending that USB wasn't designed to be an all purpose bus with additionally this exact use case in mind. Which apple helped develop.

Simp harder

Lol yeah that's how it works

Right the person looking to advance society with standards can't think critically but the person who sucks off apple against logic is a brain master.

Yeah, it's amazing what people will stand up for. It's quite odd.

Yikes

I hate many things about apple but Jesus MS UIs are trashy af

I'm not going to argue why standards are good, that's self evident. Sorry you're blind to this.

How's this for nuance? Apple made billions of dollars by just choosing to be dicks. That's the honest truth here. Simp all you want.

Dafuq, also yes you are

Wow, hadn't heard about that but it makes sense. Yeah this thread is way weird. So many people simping for a cable.

Read: they wanted to make money by being a huge pain in the dick

If sucking ass is a marker of excellence, sure.

And? You're actually just accidentally pointing out how fucked up it is that they chose not to implement it on phones.

Downvoted because standards are more important than slight technical advantage locked away from other companies' usage.

Also you're not being "mindlessly" downvoted. There are good reasons to be annoyed by this same shit argument we've heard for..a decade?