There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

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    1 year ago

    long past their capability to actually run the updated software

    Well, Apple intentionally slowed those devices down to make the users update, instead of using an insecure device, that would’ve provided a good experience otherwise.

    And these days Apple is retiring devices arbitrarily for profits too. For example this year they are retiring the Iphone 8, which has better hardware, than the ipad 2018 that is still being supported…

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      1 year ago

      That slowness was, at least officially, for the battery health. Do you have the support to prove otherwise?

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        1 year ago

        These conversations bring the weirdest people out of the woodwork. I remember talking with a guy who explained to me how crap Apple laptops were because you (according to him) can’t customise them. Turns out he’d never owned or even used an Apple laptop. I was like, why do you care?! Especially about something you have no experience with!