It’s time for Apple to spin AppleTV production arm off into its own company. Between this, the John Stewart thing, and ruining the AppleTV UI so it can cram more ads for their programming onto the screen — it’s a black eye on Apple’s rep.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2023
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They don’t care what you think but if you get in their way you will know about it
Wouldn't be the first time.
- refusing usb-c for so long in order to push proprietary dongles until EU forced them
- Killing headphone jack to push Bluetooth add-ons and other dongles.
- Preventing people from taking pictures if their icloud is full even though their device isn't to try to push upgrades to icloud storage.
EDIT: To clarify, when I said preventing, I meant more of a temporary prevention. The issue is that if you open your camera app and your icloud storage is full, an iPhone will display an alert message stating icloud is full and present you with a button to add more storage, non-technical users would see this and hit this button taking them to the icloud upgrade page in settings. Now, if I'm taking a picture, it's often a "now moment" kind of thing, and even getting a popup would be sufficient to lose that moment.
And those still calling BS after my edit, I've personally seen this popup multiple times when I had my free 5gb plan on my iPhone 12, which was one of the reasons I switched to Android.
"Preventing people from taking pictures if their icloud is full even though their device isn't to try to push upgrades to icloud storage."
Wait, really?! You can even take a picture and store it locally on the phone?
Considering not everyone has iCloud and iPod touches with cameras exist, I’m calling BS on this one. I’ve never seen or heard of this.
Also that USB-C thing. I’ve heard so many people claim that Apple wanted to somehow “fix” their implementation of USB-C to require Apple-licensed cables (or that they did), but have never seen any proof of this actually being real.
My USB-C equipped iPhone works with every cable I’ve ever tried it with, Apple or otherwise.
Apple is a shitty corporation, but they have enough to be upset at them about without people making shit up or perpetuating falsehoods without fact-checking them first.
I've added an edit to my post. Hopefully, that clarifies the icloud thing. To the usb-c, I like the fact they FINALLY added usb-c to the iPhone, but unless you have an iPhone Pro, it's limited to usb 2.0 speeds for some dumb reason.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apples-iphone-15-usb-c-port-has-me-stoked-but-there-are-downsides/
That’s because the 15’s are basically reshelled 14 pros, which had USB2 controllers. Apple just updated the connector.
That’s normal in the industry, not just Apple. It keeps costs down and allows them to wind down the manufacture of older components and ramp up on newer ones.
I expect next year’s base model to get USB3 speeds.
USB3 speeds don’t matter much anyway to most consumers, because most do not sync large files exclusively by cable anymore.
Right, most just pay for more icloud storage. Or is there another way to sync files on an iPhone?
Ignoring the fact that most cloud storage providers have a free tier or include it with other services most users already have, there’s always airdrop or connecting to a network share which iOS can do now.
What files are you constantly syncing that require faster than USB 2.0 speeds in 2023? If it’s large HD photo or video files then you fall into the “Prosumer” category and have a valid use case for a Pro iPhone, both for the camera AND USB 3 gains…
…..or just wait a year or so for the base model to get USB 3, when the components are cheap and available enough to Apple to do.
Once again this is not specific to Apple. In 2022 there were about 10 Android phones that also released with USB2 speeds. Why is Apple suddenly in the wrong for doing the same thing?
Hmmm... Still think it sucks and should not have to be the case, but I concede and agree with you.
I mean I agree with you on that, it’s 2023 and USB 3 should be more ubiquitous than it is. It’s just not an Apple-specific thing is all.
I’m more upset that they would censor an actor’s speech over political concerns or potentially lie about the carbon impact of their product lines.
Oh absolutely. This is just like what Netflix did
Yep. It’s BS.
Pretty badass move.
He’s always been badass, iirc.
Just don't use apple products or TV it's not that hard. iPhones aren't that good and neither is macOS or any of their hardware. Proprietary bullshit.
They've been shit since before Power Macs, IMHO.