• blunderworld@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes, Apple. A company that is famously concerned about the longevity and durability of their products.

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, their software/security support is longer than any others that I’m aware of. They beat out even Samsung in that regard.
      Only one that’s close/better is Fairphone and they still have a looong way to go before they can compete in terms of quality and audience.

      But I agree that their physical durability and repairability could seriously improve.

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        Well, supporting also means, not making older phones slower with new updates on purpose.

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        1 year ago

        Do lightning cables still break if you look at them funny? I remember all the “hack” videos that involved taping a spring to the end of them…

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          Wasn’t Apple accused of intentionally slowing down older phones as a tactic to get consumers to upgrade? IIRC they paid a huge settlement in court over it. Which I guess isn’t necessarily an admission of guilt, but it doesnt look very good.

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            The issue really is less “evil” than that. They keep adding features running in the background which add to the load on a CPU. Combine that with some of those new features running better with newer versions of microcode and it quickly makes it appear as though they are intentionally slowing it down, while in reality they are just adding more shit to the system to run on top of your day to day workload.

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        Never really had an issue with iPhone outside of the glass screen, but more recent Gorilla Glass offerings have mostly fixed that issue for me. I do love what Fairphone is doing.

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        Which company the one know to have a lot of problems with amd dedicated gpu or the company know to kernel panic the entire phone os only because the iphone 11 mobo can’t detect a microphone or the one know selling computer for more than 900€ with soldered flash memories that give a use limit to the hardware making it almost a paperweight and to resolve this issues you need to desolder the old chips and solder new one?

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            You can’t say durable and apple in the same phrase, literally most of the repairs done on arm macbooks are done to resolve the flash memory from shorting to ground, and that make the entire pc not turn on.

            • also have hardware and software issues

            At least on other devices that are not iphone you can install another software

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    Is that an observation or a threat?

    iPhones aren’t exactly known for durability…

    Most Motorola and Samsung batteries are completely removable but there’s something in the way to prevent it - glue, a sticker, a couple of screws. I doubt removing those measures will reduce the durability of the phones.

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      1 year ago

      Apple: makes back of phone glass for aesthetics and premium feel
      Consumer: puts $5 plastic case on phone to protect expensive glass

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    1 year ago

    I guess saying that your product will be shittier is normal these days.

    Maybe if iPhones “decrease” in durability, maybe fewer people will purchase them?

    Oh no, think about the yacht money!