Comment on Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else

• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You think Samsung hardware compares with Apple hardware? O.o

  Don’t get me wrong, they don’t tend to put out shit. But they’ve also had a track record of issues like cracking screens and exploding batteries.

  Apple tends to only put out the most polished version of something possible, assuming it ever sees the light of day. Their entire reputation is built around that point. If they release a foldable, the hardware will likely be on point.

  That’s not to say it will be perfect, it’ll still be running their overly locked down walled garden POS software. But you’re telling me if Apple released a foldable that could have Android installed you wouldn’t be interested?

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  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You must be forgetting that apple already did a folding phone years ago. It was called the iphone 6. That was the highest quality phone ive ever seen them make…

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ha, yes true enough. They do fuck up, though I think we can agree “my chassis bent by a couple degrees” and “my phone blew up” are on different levels.

      Their worst fuck up imho was then throttling things when the battery was degraded without telling people. Literally just settled a class action on that too.

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      • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not the antenna that lost signal when you held the phone in your left hand on the iphone 4. That was a pretty bad one.

        But yeah, the throttling thing is terrible.

        As for the exploding phones, whilst its definitely worse, the phone was recalled and discontinued within a month of release and no phone has experienced that problem since.

        I find it interesting that people dont stop buying apple when they mess up with the single phone they release every cycle but samsung who develop multiple phones each cycle had one bad batch and thats all people remember.

        Obviously, explosions are bad. I get that. But it was dealt with and they havent messed up like that si ce. Apple have screwed up multiple times and have carried out actions that forced users to buy new phones because their old ones become unusable. Thats so anti consumer it hurts.

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  • 4z01235@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    iPhone 4 antenna “you’re holding it wrong”

    iPhone 6 folding

    Wireless mouse charge port on the bottom

    Apple pencil charging on the iPad

    iPads with display bright spots due to structural adhesives underneath letting go and cables pressing up

    MacBook butterfly switches

    Garbage cable quality all around

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ll find issues with literally every hardware company out there. I’m not claiming that Apple is perfect, nor that they don’t make mistakes. I’m claiming the thing they worry about most is their image, and if they don’t think their foldable will be solid they won’t even let it see the light of day.

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