I guess you didn't purchase the iPhone 6, or perhaps you had very large pockets. A phone that bends semi-/permanently when placed in pockets was a ridiculous oversight.
I agree about Jony, the iPhone 5 was peak Apple design, and it comes back with no headphone jack in the 12.
Somewhere along the line, Apple forgot that its retail stores and support were products in and of themselves.
Incredible service at that time, something that Samsung and others didn’t have. Now I get some asshole that says it’s not an issue or it’ll take 2hr to fix the screen, then they break it anyway and give me another phone that isn’t unlocked and I have to go again or call the carrier because Apple fucked up.
First time on a very brand new MacBook Pro (1 day old). The laptop screen was glitching for no reason. The service center took it for repair, and when they gave it back, they visibly damaged the computer in the process (with a screwdriver they damaged part of the case), and then denied causing the damages.
At the end, they didn't even fix the issue (they changed motherboard, when it was obviously a screen or screen cable issue, not a motherboard one because the issue didn't appear on screenshots nor on external monitors).
I had to take the losses, I hate this company so much for this, by principle.
Second time, the MagSafe-style charger of my other MacBook computer took fire, Apple never acknowledged the issue, and neither offered replacement and pointed only to legal and stopped responding.
This company really has shitty processes handling defects in their own products.
I keep buying because the alternatives are very weak in comparison and outdated, but really, if you get a bad product from Apple you are fucked.
>I keep buying because the alternatives are very weak in comparison and outdated, but really, if you get a bad product from Apple you are fucked.
I think the M1 is great but I wouldn't use a normal x86 from them.
I didn’t try/need convince them to continue buying Apple, I wouldn’t buy an x86 from them.
The user group that was technical was a relatively late demographic. But Macs were always (well, since my memories in 90's) targeted towards this odd trifecta of the media production crowd (high-dollar professionals and aspiring high-dollar creators), academics, and grandparents (people with money who just wanted things to 'work'). Still seems that way to me, I guess. The closed nature of the hardware and the traditional lack of servicing to people who wanted to "break" things even on the software front was always a bit off-putting to technophiles until relatively recently (2013-2020ish?), but I might say there was a bit of a blind eye towards the faults in light of the awesome advantages. The fading appeal is likely just a more honest assessment of the platform/ecosystem in light of improving options (linux from the factory with working drivers, WSL). I mean, thank God for Apple driving quality in hardware and software. Maybe that's what you meant by technophiles - those with a love of what technology can be in its most refined and integrated sense, rather than the nerds who love to tear shit apart and improve it.
Phones, on the other hand, are an everybody thing, but that broad appeal goes back even to the first iPhone at the turn of the century to my memory. Ever since Apple has had stores, I think the phone/ipad/accessory/gadget crowd has been an ever-present customer.
Just my opinions, worth what you paid for 'em.
The early adopters of smartphones were people excited by what it could offer, I remember being distinctly dissapointed at what seemed like a closing ecosystem, opaque hardware and an end of an era in general computing. Things have progressed since then and so has my outlook mind you.
Even as a software developer I would not consider myself a technophile and certainly not an early adopter. More a begrudingly up to date luddite.
> Just my opinions, worth what you paid for 'em.
Considering the cost of my internet in Australia that may actually be non-zero! But they were worthwile opinions, so I'll accept that cost.
Douglas Adams was a fan as well [1]. He wrote sometimes in a Mac magazine whose name escapes me at the moment. He was an über-technophile.
https://lowendmac.com/2016/douglas-adams-author-and-mac-user...
The iPod didn’t have expandable storage, but nobody did and AA or AAA batteries sucked. The iPhone didn’t have battery or storage upgrades but it was a full Unix computer in your pocket.
Just a shout out to the Frontier Labs NexIIe. Awesome little MP3 player that took compact flash storage and ran on a AA batteries back in the day.
It was like 2001 or something. I had iPods as well, but loved that NexIIe.
- used the same media I had in some of my earliest digital cameras.
- could double as an external hard drive.
- ran on batteries you could buy anywhere, including lithiums.
- had an equalizer.
- displayed ID3 tags.
- had a blue on black backlit character LCD that wouldn't kill your night vision.
- Smaller form factor than the ipod and lighter (it was mostly air and cheap plastics).
It stood up to cold temps and wipeouts when out snowboarding. No special connectors - 3.5mm audio jack and usb.
Here's a period review. The fact that it's described as being smaller than a "pack of smokes" really dates it I guess. <:D https://bjorn3d.com/2002/10/frontier-labs-nex-iie-mp3-player...
You could get 2GB flash on the iPod nano. I wouldn’t have liked the nex one, the battery life was probably worst, the iPods had good monochrome at the beginning, and the good ones they were fighting were the rio karma which also used HDD, battery, and the Archos were good too, and no different aside from the iPod needing iTunes.
In 2013 the same Apple store replaced a 3rd party stick of RAM in my iMac for an Apple one for free when I sent it to fix the bad hinge on that year's model.
I had an iphone 6, never had a problem with it, but, I never seated with it with my back pockets, as this would be exceedingly uncomfortable for me; also never knew anyone with a bend iphone 6 too, but I understand that this was not the experience for a lot of people.
But as I told, I am talking about my experience with apple products. Maybe I am lucky with apple stuff.