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Comment Repairability? (Score 1) 68

I sure hope repairability and being able to upgrade your devices by yourself will make a return. Throw in extending the "planned obsolescence" by a few years and I'm back in.

But I doubt it will happen.

(Left Apple about five years ago when they decided to drop support for my still well-spec'd MBP.)

Comment Blame game. (Score 3, Insightful) 83

It's easier to find a scapegoat (the senior engineer to sign off) than to question the "productivity gains" that brought us these outages in the first place. But where will they find people willing to risk their career in the future?

I'm not overly confident that AI will be ready for unsupervised production use in the forseeable future.

Comment Innovative Cloud(TM) product fatigue in the making (Score 1) 90

I guess the customers will only learn _not_ to buy the latest, shiniest and most expensive devices from premium brands if they're arbitrarily killed off a while later.

Why not simply settle for noname Ali*xpress stuff instead? Same functionality, same lifespan, less emotional attachment.

Comment The iPhone 16e isn't small!!1 (Score 1) 18

"...the more affordable iPhone 16e proving especially popular among consumers who favor smaller devices."

Yeah, I've recently bought a refurbed iPhone SE 3 after holding out for two years for a 1:1 replacement. That's a lost sale for Apple.

I'm still not interested in huge, tablet-sized smartphones, but it seems the market has spoken.

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