My coworker is massive Apple fanboy who gets the newest phone every year.
He goes through this exact process after a few days:
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Talks about how much faster the newest phone is
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Shows comparisons of photos or screen resolution
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Says it’s expensive but the trade-in means he saves $x so really he only paid like 75% market price
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Talks about all the gadgets it connects to.
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Complains about how his prior phone did one thing he liked
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Complains about if it’s worth the price
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Stops talking about it after multiple people point out feature x, y, z exists on other devices
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Gets excited about Apple World or whatever that conference is and prepares himself to buy the newest phone
Introducing the SlightlyBetter™ phone. Every year it gets slightly better!!
This year’s features include:
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Slightly improved camera
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Slightly larger battery
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Slightly faster processor
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Slightly brighter screen
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Slightly louder audio
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Slightly quicker charging
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Slightly no headphone jack
It’s the same phone as last year, but now SlightlyBetter™
Yeah, because they always just compare the new one with the old iPhone, not with competitors. “The best <insert random feature> in an iPhone ever!” Well, no shit, the new one isn’t worse than the old one, gz!
And don’t forget to invent crazy marketing names to hide tech specs (“Retina display” which wasn’t even 1080p etc).
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Slightly no headphone jack
Don’t let them fool you. It’s there, just covered by plastic for the extra Fuck You.
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he only paid like 75% market price
Which is still twice the price of a normal phone lol.
what is a “normal phone” to you, apple has over 50% marketshare in both the US and UK. iphones are, by definition, “normal phones”.
the days of iphones being the expensive/overpriced option are over, with 1200+ android flagships being common
Pixel 7a:
- best camera on the market;
- flagship chip;
- 5 years of monthly software update;
- reasonable storage (128g);
- supported by almost all custom roms: lineage, divest, graphene, calyx, iode, /e/, etc.;
- OEM authentic parts and repair guide distributed by a well-respected company: ifixit;
- less than $375
iPhone 15 pro 128g sales for $1000, at 75%, is exactly twice the price of Pixel 7a 128g.
Comparing a companies budget phone to another companies newer halo phone is just an unreasonable comparision. The iPhone 15 pro also has many features that the pixel doesn’t.
For 429 dollars you could get an Apple refurbished iphone 12 mini (so same warranties and stuff as a new phone), which has a more powerful cpu, higher storage options if wanted, a brighter display, face id, etc. Obviously, you also lose features. But the reality is, its not some simple one side is good value and the other is overpriced garbage.
oem authorized repair also applies to apple, and with almost all the same caveats
It isn’t if the halo phone sucks. Like, if the Pixel 7A - Google’s budget phone, crushes the latest iPhone, imagine what the flagship Google Pixel 8 Pro does to it…
But it doesn’t…
Neither phones “crush” the iPhone 15 pro.
Nice to know your coworker “loves” the planet.
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It took about 10 seconds to realize I needed to filter out Vision Pro posts.
Especially all the shitty viral marketing going on. Mostly on Reddit of course. Like /r/Damnthatsinteresting having two posts about someone walking around with one in public. It’s so damn obvious.
Did we say you could visit The Cursed Place?
I just saw that same story twice on Lemmy this morning.
There like one fan boi spamming posts. Same with musk. I just block user
Have you seen much marketing for it? I’ve had to seek it out. Vision pro is pretty neat to me, especially with how sharp it is and the ability to use with my macbook seamlessly, but sure as shit ain’t worth 3,500. I think there are really well-executed ideas in there. That is what Apple does, not necessarily invent from scratch, but refine a concept and work it into their pretty walled garden.
It doesn’t seem like Apple is aiming to make massive profit off this, seems very very gen 1 early adopter limited run. Seems odd to me there would be a full on marketing blitz other than fanboy and tech enthusiast reviews and hype.
e: i accidentally a word
I mean 3-4 different videos on the same day of people wearing them in public. Probably paid off influencers. Just a way to bring the product out there (It’s the first time I actually saw it, I don’t care about Apple products) and to normalize seeing them around. As if a normal guy would use a crosswalk, standing in the middle of the road while interacting with his Apple Vision, lol.
Probably paid off influencers.
Without having seen the videos, my thin-slice reaction is influencers using Apple as a kind of keyword stuff.
Super-exclusive product at extremely high price point with enough interest to get searches/upvotes/likes. Ripe for influencers to get views for themselves, the publicity for Apple being a happy secondary effect.
Wow yeah that is ridiculous lol. I have only seen MKBHD and Norm from Tested talk about it, and I sought those out. Marketing aside I think once they refine the product and price point it could be pretty compelling! I hope nobody is crossing streets with it in the meantime…
They don’t need to market. All those that bought it were probably invited to “buy” it. As in it will be a tax write off. Will be lots of companies buying it for employees to play with.
It’s not for plebs.
You aren’t a pleb of you can fork over $3500 for a new unstable product with no apps.
I need the most expensive and largest iPhone model for clout, I won’t utilize the extra functionality, I just need people to know I got money!
I miss the days when people paid a drink for everyone in the bar so they know they were loaded, at least that day.
So… an extra mortgage it is then?
Just carry some money around then…
Me on my five year old iPhone XS Max and 2011 MacBook Pro: not for some of us I guess
Four year old 11 Pro going strong!
Lemmy hates Apple but I used my iPhone 5 for 4.5 years. I don’t NEED to upgrade my XS but I doooo like the idea of 120hz and USB-C.
Germans in ww1 getting promoted to officer
But this time around it has “titanium”. Which is really nothing but a skin and nothing more.
Nah but see the new one has an apple logo on it. That’s why it’s worth $3600
All tech really. Innovation is dead.
We have tech conventions like CES which prove you extremely wrong but alright.
Adding ChatGPT to an ebike or adding “AI” to a pet door is basically what’s going on in the Patrick meme.
If your toaster doesn’t even have a companion app, is it all really worth it?
Yes! I pay extra for products these days if they don’t require
spyingapps.
I thought we were talking about how Iphones are nearly identical with a new price tag. Technology as a whole is progressing wonderfully, just not Apple.
anyone shitting on apple’s innovation clearly has not used m1/2 etc. I’m not a fanboy but m1 is an absolute gamechanger for me as a dev. It is night and day. Truly mindblowing levels of performance compared to top spec intels from a few years ago
The $999 monitor stand sold seperately and the wireless mouse you have to flip upside down to charge have been my champions of their incompetency. I’m sure they’ve done good elsewhere but start to finish I think they’re a company that preys on people’s stupidity.
I find Iphones pretty stupid. Thought you were joking with the mouse. Knowing their userbase, it was probably a success anyway.
good point. there are plenty of duds to be fair, but vision pro seems like it could be the start of something really cool for VR
Microsoft already built, launched, and abandoned that tech in the Hololens before Apple even released their first announcement. That’s not innovation, that’s copying.
I’m still using the same pc I built over 10 years ago. I can’t keep up with triple A max graphics titles but my computer still serves me well with very little in terms of upgrades.
You should look into NVMe HDD. They’re huge upgrades for older computers. You won’t get full speeds, but with a PCIe adaptor, you can get half speeds, which will be a 350% improvement to your SATA hard drives.
Thanks for the tip. My orginal motherboard quit a few years back and my options were limited by my cpu socket. My biggest issue right now is memory capacity. I’m capped at 16 gb ddr3 right now, my old board went to 32 but its BIOS corrupted then also corrupted the BIOS backup or something.
I just upgraded last year for the first time in about 7 years, and I was honestly blown away by some of the advancements they’ve made in computer hardware. On a fresh install of Windows everything opened instantly, and post to boot times were like 10 seconds flat. But over a couple of months Windows gobbled up more and more resources. I switched to Pop!_OS full time and my machine is lightning fast. It’s by far the most powerful computer I’ve ever used. If you were to buy top of the line stuff from last year, it would be cheap to build a new computer, and you’ll definitely notice an improvement in performance. Granted, you said you’re happy with what you have now, so no pressure. I’m just sharing my excitement with you as a fellow old-tech holdout.
I honestly found windows 7 to run faster than 10 on my current set up. Im still on a 120gb ssd for my OS that cost like $200 when purchased so my boot times are fast enough. Im trying to unplug more and socialize/be more active so putting off the upgrade helps me with that in some ways. Glad you’re happy with your upgrade results.
Im trying to unplug more and socialize/be more
Nice! Same here with the unplugging. It helps that I work on a computer all day. The last thing I want to do when I get off work is to get back on a computer. It’s kinda sad, because they used to be one of my favorite hobbies, but whatever. I wouldn’t voluntarily trade my career for more enjoyment on my personal computer.
I just moved to a smaller community and I’m hoping that’ll present more opportunities for socializing, since I’ll see the same people more than once. In the big city you’ll never see the same people anywhere. In small communities you run into the same people all the time, and that can eventually turn into friendship.
I have an oposite situation where my work has me working actively and I meet new customers everyday so I’m usually burnt by getting home.
Smaller communities are really good for meeting more people. Good luck on finding more friendships. I find it hard to meet people in real life during this digital age. I wish it were as easy and common have friendly conversations with a stranger as it is online here.
I haven’t had a desire or need to upgrade my phone in like 3 years now. Only reason I upgraded that one was because it wasn’t 5G and I live an area where 5G actually works and is fast.
Even stuff like that is intentionally held back these days. They’ll release like 1 “new” feature per year, which is already a couple of years old at the time of release, so that you need to upgrade again in six months if you want features that have been around for several years already.
I just get a new phone when I can so I stay on top of trade value and I’m in the ecosystem. That and my kid is young so I like to keep the camera decent. I have adhd so I don’t trust myself to back up my photos and not forget about them before a drive fails. I understand this isn’t about me but this is the internet so here I am blabbing.
Is your name “big old mustard” or “bi gold mustard”
Big old mustard. What does it mean? I’m not sure.
When your username checks out, it’s probably going to be pretty funny.
