This is mostly true, but they've also made it worse. Additionally, every time you think they can't possibly make it worse they find a way.

Apps suck. Computers can do a great deal more, and can actually be under your control too.

Neither of them understand what they've given up (probably even a little bit) for the captive portals they've inured themselves to.

Flood the market and no one makes shit. I'm not a programmer, but this was transparently the goal right from the start.

hear you over all that bribe money (lobbyists).

specifically for this reason. You also have Google directly targeting them.

Yes and the right wing trumptard apologists defending this dumb shit and absolutely flooding the comments makes me wish /. were half as good as it was 25 years ago.

iPhones in to bypass tariffs. If you did that shit you'd be in jail.

All of their "privacy" and what not is centered around you trusting them first. The rest of them don't even pretend.

A Roku 2 XS. It was clear then the direction they were going in. I dropped them at that time and they've popped up periodically in the news since like this doing something progressively anti-consumer and vile.

Shit bag grifters want to privatize everything. Profit margins are boundless. Funding has not even kept up with inflation. Right wing magtards are largely uneducated - again, not a coincidence.

Deteriorated by design via lack of funding among other things. Look who is in the White House. This is not a coincidence.

Investors don't hamstring the CEO, the Board does, as they did with Gelsinger.

Macrumor's article is calling this a distraction. I think it's an enormous misstep and I've already contacted our local Apple engineer to tell them so.

There is local legislation for Small Nuclear Reactors here now, where they want us to pay for them so they can build data centers here.

I saw an article about this earlier this morning, which also said that the only functional ones in the world are in China and Russia. So they want us to be guinea pigs too.

I do but we don't print that much, even being several years old it's still on its original toner cartridge - so no third party shit.