On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 19:29:10 -0000 (UTC), Arlen G. Holder wrote:
> Does the best price:performance choice in any common consumer electronics
> device NOT get better, faster, and CHEAPER over time?
From MacWorld, for your Memorial Day weekend shelter-in-place humor...
This humorous poke at Apple's version of "economic theory" is apropos...
"From laptops that require multiple dongles to work properly
and hefty upgrade costs for memory or storage to the iPad keyboards
*with price tags that defy any known theory of economics*: the
constant drip feed of penny-pinching from the world's first
trillion-dollar company..."
The whole article is here, but the point is Appleconomics is where
MARKETING tells the consumer what they will "courageously" want! :)
o Different Think: Why Apple needs to stop being so cheap
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https://www.macworld.co.uk/opinion/apple/different-think-apple-cheap-3788153/>
Example, (verbatim)... (there's a _lot_ more in the article!)
*I didn't choose the dongle life*
Take, for example, the great headphone debacle that began with the
iPhone 7. Here came the funky new model that everyone wanted,
with Apple touting its decision to include no headphone jack
absolutely free of charge. That's right, customers were blessed
with a couple of millimetres of additional brushed aluminium
to cover up the ugly hole that existed on the previous models.
Courage.
Obviously, this caused a bit of a problem for those who wanted to
use their current, wired headphones, so Apple saw them off at the
pass with the inclusion of an adapter that connected them to the
Lightning port. It was ugly, but it worked... well, for a while
until the damn thing either got lost or broke. Dongle life had begun.
This was followed by the iPhone 8, which told a similar story until
it was updated a while later and the adapter was quietly dropped
from the box, replaced by a pair of Lightning EarPods instead.
Now, some will say this is a good thing, as you get working headphones
with your iPhone, but if you already had a pair you liked then to use
them meant a trip to the Apple Store to buy a dongle. This would be
followed up, shortly afterwards, with a second trip to replace the
first one that had disappeared somehow. Magical.
Why not simply put both in the box? iPhones are expensive,
dongles are not, so why withhold this thing that helps customers
and ensures that 'it just works'?
(If you think this is bad, word on the grapevine is that Apple is
considering not including any headphones at all with the iPhone 12."
There's a _lot_ more of this humor in the MacWorld article...
--
Given it's what I've been saying for decades, you have to allow me the
humor of reading, with great satisfaction, that _some_ people get details.
(not many, but some)