> under UK consumer rights laws, faulty goods must be repaired or replaced up to 6 years after purchase
Dang that's awesome, I need to move to the UK! No guarantee like that in the US
Apple is really heading down the 90s Microsoft path. Increasingly buggy software, terrible design for their native apps, terrible design decisions for their hardware (keyboard, dongle proliferation), the iCloud mess. They had a good run.
We had a news cycle about Apple becoming a $1 trillion company less than a week ago.
Microsoft is still pretty big too. They are both entrenched, with momentum guaranteeing their size and growth in spite of increasingly crappy products.