Powerless?

You don't buy a product, it disappears. Happens all the time.

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Narrow? Well that is all there with consumerism and the all mighty dollar.

Yes. Apple does what everyone else does. They lie and collect money.

Though with Apple, their lies are very lucrative.

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Sure. Changing a connector had nothing to do with sales.

They did it to cut costs and to reap the rewards of re-selling you everything, especially with all those licensing fees.

Apple does nothing unless it increases the bottom line.

AirPods are disposable, which is sad. The obsolesces part is the hard to replace battery. 1 to maybe 2 years is all you get with AirPods. So i guess you will buy new ones, at whatever price Apple sets.

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They are building anticipation. The 'press' about a missing feature is just to alert more apple users there is a feature they 'need'. Then next phone includes that feature, with the built in advertising of the 'wanted' feature missing from the last iphone.

It's pretty genius and manipulative, but that is what good PR looks like I guess.

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But it does support the Pencil.

Why would you need an iPad Pro fro 3x the money?

Is it storage? Coz we all know you would keep your PRO media on a networked drive, because that data would overwhelm the tablet. Is it the processor? Coz really there isn't that much difference.

They are downplaying the similarities between the $385 iPad and the $1000 iPad Pro.

Poor mans iPad pro.

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Microsoft is arguably a first party developer for the Windows platform. Of course, they are now forbidden to promote their first party software over any other software.

iOS is an operating system, that many in the apple community argue is a good enough desktop replacement, and that there is no need for Windows and MacOS. Therefore it will be the same as Windows an MacOS.

It is inevitable that the laws will go against Apple at some point. If they appear to 'stack the deck' in their favor, they will eventually be punished for poor business practices.

The closed nature of the App Store will most likely not survive, as there is no real reason for it to be closed other then to monopolies the 'market'. Most governments frown on monopolies, and as far as App Stores go, iOS devices are not allowed more then 1.

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It's a credit card. It stops working you get a new one.

No one cares that a credit card looks like shit. No one.

The Apple kool-aid is strong with this one and maybe the 'stupid customer' is the reasons for the stupid instructions.

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Aren't these the same instructions for iPhones too?

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The IBM PC wasn't very good for what? It was an office machine, and for that it was VERY good.

If you wanted graphics and games, you went with Commodore and Atari. If you wanted education you went with Apple. Most people i knew couldn't afford Apple's so they had Commodore's and Atari's.

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I had more trouble with El Capitan then I've had with 3 different installs of Windows 10 and that was for only doing Music and Video playback. MacOS doesn't play nice with external hardware.

That being said, anyone who says you don't need to know Unix/Linux/Command Prompt to deal with MacOS issues is either a shill or has blinders on.

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Apple may collect 95% of all mobile profits. This is exactly about a big and successfully company.

User app lock-in did not work for Microsoft Windows and it will eventually not work for Apple.

Apple wants iOS to be THE operating system for everything. Why would it not be just like Windows or MacOS.

Why are 'mobile' OS's defined as something other then just-another-OS.

Microsoft cannot use you market position to force people to run MS apps as default, and Apple will also not be allowed to use it's market position to lock-in and lock-out whoever it pleases.

Either you support that Apple is a Big and Successful company that collects huge amounts of money from the mobile marketplace or you just ignore the facts.

Mobile is a Market Place and as such no one will allow a monopoly. It's just time before Apple is forced to separate iOS from the apps. In the end iOS is an operating system that can run Applications, so why the lock-in?

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That all changed when you company is somewhat a monopoly.

If Apple is making 95% of all mobile profits, as I have seen that number thrown around, I can see the case for monopolistic misuse of their market position.

These lawsuits will not get smaller, and will eventually force Apple to open up their OS and Marketplace. They can't say there are alternatives for their built in apps, then make it impossible to use the alternatives as default. That anti-trust argument has already been LOST by Microsoft, and will eventually be lost by Apple.

If Apple is arguably calling iOS the operating system of the future, it is NO different then Windows. Windows still owns the PC market, and one could say that iOS owns the mobile market, specifically because of user and developer (hardware/software) buy in. Apple may faze out/merge MacOS, in favour of iOS, as most average people can do most everything on iOS, so why bother competing in the downward spiral that is the PC market.

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There is nothing Unique about MacOS, and saying unique just makes one believe you are unreasonably Apply biased.

So, what is the argument? Is it that MacOS and Apple hardware are unique? Really though, Apple laptops ARE generic, built with generic parts and pieces. Now that most other manufacturers are building aluminum cases, one can argue that the even the design is generic, and in some instances, quite stale.

MacOS is no more unique then MS Windows. If you argue that MacOS is the alternative to Windows, there is no uniqueness, just another standard OS. Perhaps there are unique and innovative Linux Distributions, with new ways to interact, but MacOS is far from unique.

Sure,if you are arguing that Apple products are for the 'educated and demanding' one better hopes that those educated and demanding people will continue to support ever more expensive products in a shrinking market. Apple may indeed go High-End only, if it can make an income from services, but it still needs some hardware users to make the services income work.

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One can argue that Apple uses and abuses confirmation bias and group think.

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But this is the point. iOS is an operating system. The APPS are the separate programs that run in iOS.

The iOS/APP monopolistic setup is impossible on MacOS and Windows, as we already know from 30+ years of software development.

Android and iOS are just operating systems, just like MacOS, Windows, and Linux. Seems a little strange to treat iOS as something special and separate from any other OS in the market place. The argument that iOS only runs on Apple hardware means nothing, as it means nothing in MacOS.

Time is Apple's only enemy, and it will be soon time to separate iOS from the Apps that it runs.

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