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> Apple tells its customers what's hot and then shoves it down their throats

I don't really understand this. Is it shoving when something is actually popular? The iPod was legitimately extremely popular. Did Apple decide it was hot and then somehow force people to buy 450 million of them?

I mean I'm just curious what products you're thinking of when you say "shoves it down their throats"

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Is the iPod your only example? That was a quarter century ago.

What's hot about less ports, no headphone jack, no SD card, a tax when buying apps for your phone, planned obsolescence, antagonistic behavior towards app and software developers, an unchanged aluminum rectangle, thinner devices that look cool at the cost of performance and efficiency, heaviest laptops and phones on the market, phones made out of glass front and back, the touchbar, the notch, etc.?

Just don't buy what you don't like. There's no throat shoving going on.

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