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Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger

So funny seeing Apple fans eat up their PR. Ooh it was Apple’s plan all along? They did it because it’s more environmentally friendly? Yeah right and it only coincides the very same year EU is enforcing every manufacturer to go USB-C route. No one ever stopped to think if Apple is so environmentally friendly why were they fighting right to repair act.

And don’t give me that “iPad had USB-C” speech. If lightning port could handle higher currents, iPad would have gone that route as well. USB has been standard for many years now but they have pushed so many different ports instead of going USB route. They don’t care about anything else other than milking a bit more money from their users.

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TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In my opinion, Apple’s choice to reduce the number anf variety of ports on their devices in order to sell more dongles was where mobile device enshitification began in earnest. Now my phone just spys on me and vomits ads constantly and I can’t even plug in my fucking headphones.

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- asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They take ages to adopt great features that have existed on Android devices for years, and yet are THE leader of what corners to cut in the industry.
  
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  - RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    We like to call it innovation here, innovative ideas to fuck everyone and get a bit of bonus for the ceo
    
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Cheez@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

“iPad had USB-C”

Any argument they make for iPads having USB-C is moot because they are still selling Lightning iPads.

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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That too!
  
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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For me, nothing could ever possibly top Apple’s rejection of strain relievers on their cables. It’s absolutely the perfect blend of their overrated design sense with their unerring corporate instinct for planned obsolescence.

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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Also let us not forget Apple is the only laptop manufacturer whose laptops have failing SATA cables. I am yet to run into any laptop with drive cables failing.
  
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  - wavebeam@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sata cables? There aren’t sata cables in MacBooks and haven’t been for like a decade.
    
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    MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Indeed. And yet I have never mentioned anything about what age laptops I was talking about. Then again, Apple was also only manufacturer with unibody laptop whose two parts unglued when you used your laptop for anything more intensive because they designed air flow in such a way so that hot air blows on “unibody” glued part. It’s just comedy all around.
    
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vermyndax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Actually, Apple supports the right to repair law now: theverge.com/…/apple-california-right-to-repair-s…

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- sep@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They saw the the writing on the wall, and turned colours as soon as they saw they were fighiting a loosing battle.
  
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- 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Like any populist leader, they have just seen which way the crowd is moving, ran to the front and pretended that’s what they were going to do all along.
  
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- DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ye no, i will only say they support it the moment their devices isnt made to not be repaired and have dark patterns all over them
  
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- clayt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Only when they can find a way to make money from it.
  
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- Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No, they were forced to.
  
  If you actually look closer to their setup, it is extremely difficult and costs tons of money. Just to make their Genius bars seem reasonable.
  
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