That is their business model, no? The convenience and integration of their products is what makes Apple unique. Seems weird hold it against them.
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morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months agobut you still lock yourself in their offer space when you also bought devices that kind of depend on those services: music streaming for the homepod, fitness+ for watch, cloud storage for iphone photos…
every time you switch from apple to a third party, it’s ever so slightly less convenient, and they probably conceive their products around that notion.
Syntha@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
TheSaus@lemmy.fmhy.net 8 months ago
Yea i buy apple because it just kinda works and it’s what i’ve used since my first mobile device, being an ipod 5. The switch to android just isn’t worth losing all my paid apps and whatever else
SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 8 months ago
None of the products that had the price increased are locked in. Apple TV plus doesn’t even need an Apple device and has many competitors, Apple News has plenty of competitors, there are games you can buy without Apple Arcade though most do stupid in app purchases.
offbyone@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yes you have to decide if the cost of the convenience is worth the lock in and price of Apple products. At the end of the day you still have a choice.