Apple is a premium luxury brand, like Bentley or Coach or Rolex. If you buy Apple stuff, you should be happy to buy different chargers and cables for the different Apple devices.
Rolex sells watches that are incredible pieces of engineering but functionally can be found in a watch that is 10000x cheaper.
There is no laptop that I can buy today that is equivalent to an M2 MacBook Pro at any price point let alone significantly cheaper.
Nobody buys the new iPhone because the SOC uses 20mAh less and is 13% faster and 300% faster in some irrelevant benchmark.
Camera quality, and bad battery life from old phone seem to be why normal people upgrade, brand and design occasionally too.
Nobody bullies someone into getting an iPhone lol because nobody calls or texts anymore they all use FB IG or snap so those group chat memes you heard of have not been a thing for over 5 years.
Huh? I'm talking about people switching to iPhone from Android (or staying with iPhone through an upgrade). The iPhone camera is nothing really special, and never has been: Android phones have always had the cutting-edge camera tech.
>Nobody bullies someone into getting an iPhone lol because nobody calls or texts anymore they all use FB IG or snap so those group chat memes you heard of have not been a thing for over 5 years.
That's not what I see when I see American users talk about using SMS messages and iMessage. SMS seems to still be very popular there, for some strange reason. Plus, it's not just the iMessage thing; it's people in real life seeing their friend with a non-iPhone and asking them "why don't you have an iPhone like everyone else?"
Always a good approach to have in life. Thinking everyone is dumb except for you.
But the Processor is SO far ahead of the competition its crazy. FaceID is still superior to the competition.
Then when I saw side-by-side comparisons of Pixel 7 Pro and 14 Pro Max, half the time I pick the 7 and the other half the 14.
What's interesting to me tho is how low the Huawei phone is compared to the Pixel, because when every there's arguments on Facebook about iPhone or something, there's countless comments about the Huawei being the best camera hands down, no competition. But it looks like it doesn't come close to top 3 in any category?
Ultimately the best camera is the one you have with you.
What's really weird are iPhone owners that begin conversations with "of course iPhone is objectively better", which I have met on HN a few times. They seem to live in a different reality, where it's justified to spit out couple hundred of dollars to not think for a five minutes.
Side A: Apple makes ludicrously expensive ultra-luxe products that only the conspicuously rich buy, like Rolex or Bentley.
Side B: Apple is definitely on the premium end of the market, but generally justify their presence there due to elements of product quality, and their price positioning isn't anything like Rolex or Bentley.
I think pointing out individual instances where products exist that beat Apple products in some respect and are cheaper doesn't really weigh in on the debate. In broad terms, Apple's high end phones are at or near price comparability with other high end phones, and at or near performance/specs/value with other high end phones. Maybe a smidge above or below in some respects at different times, but basically that's where they are.
To me, Apple is closer to Volvo, or maybe in a pinch BMW, in terms of their market positioning than it is to Bentley. That's not to say you can't prefer a Kia (better value / cheaper price) or a Genesis (premium brand spun off from a traditionally cheaper competitor) or a Lexus or an Audi (in the same price tier), but more or less it makes very little sense to pretend BMW and Bentley are the same thing.
Why are you comparing with an imaginary equivalent? Different things matter to different people - dimensions, weight, battery life, raw power, extendability, screen. There are a bunch of options that beat M2 Macs on all those bar battery life - e.g. my personal Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is better for the things that matter to me than my work-issued M1 MBP and it's not even close - a screen that doesn't cause eyestrain within tens of minutes, choice in the OS, similar dimensions, much more raw power, extendability, repairability. The only thing in which it's worse is battery life. An LG Gram is lighter than an MBA/MBP, and goes to 17'' for the screen size.
Don't get me wrong, MBP hardware is pretty good. The problems are lack of choice (like screen type), highway robbery when buying extra RAM/storage, and a nearly total lack of repairability and fully total lack of extendability. Oh and a pretty subpar OS.
Why do people spread this false doctrine?
I mean "honour your father and mother" -what does the word honour mean?? bestow them with a title? give them a gold Oscar statue?
Also you said spread. I didn't see a jar of butter and a knife. what spread is this? You said doctrine. Can I see some statements from the episcopacy on this please...
"Don't buy user-hostile Apple equipment. Use Windows instead!"
What world are these people even from?