Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoI think you missing the point if the neo. Prices are going up everywhere, but Apple has a lock in on the parts used to make that neo from older contracts.
So while everyone is selling shit based on the current landscape, Apple can take an older cell phone chip and ram and make an entire laptop out of it. The pricing pressures are different and they will sell like crazy because the consumer market just wasn’t important anymore…until Apple wanted it.
Love or hate Apple, this is a very good thing for the consumer.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
The point the blog author was making: “I’m bothered, as I have been since the original iPad introduction 16 years ago, by the unnecessary restrictions placed by corporate powers to run third-party software and operating systems on devices we own.” Open source operating systems do not restrict the freedom of the user.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
That’s fair but the pressures are different for Apple than they are for you. Apple limits control of the device making it easier to plan for and control issues. Let the user do anything they want and some of them will do stupid shit and blame you for it.
It’s a boutique brand and image matters so they need to keep the karens at bay.
What will be interesting is seeing is asahi Linux comes to the neo. Apple hasn’t tried to limit Linux on the Mac, they just haven’t gone out of their way to support it either. So long as that chain of trust from boot to UI isn’t broke they seem perfectly happy with letting things work in their environment as the they planned, and outside of their environment any way you want.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I have no beef with Apple but with its users, who want from Apple something which it is not selling.