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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • To be fair, with Apple it’s kind of both. Because they make a large chunk of their gazillions off hardware, they can make privacy part of their platform and mean it.

    Whereas with Google, trolling your private information to sell you more stuff is all they are, and everything else serves this.

    It may not be perfect, but in my opinion it’s ok to view the former as a better option than the latter. If convenience and integration are also important to you.














  • I don’t know about the OP, but our first computer was a TRS-80 clone with a tape drive, 16k ram, and stunning 64x16 B&W graphics. Every month dad would drive us to computer club, we’d copy as many games as we could (onto tape), then spend the rest of the month trying to get them to work. Rinse and repeat. It was awesome.

    Also typed in basic games from the computer mags which needed lots of debugging. How I learnt to program (before being taught Pascal in high school).




  • Did you have one of these phones? Because I did. I was one of those that experienced this controversy first-hand.

    Most people complaining I’m guessing have very little direct experience with Apple products. Although maybe you do and just have different expectations that 5 year old tech should work the same as a new phone. We still have an iPhone 6 and the original SE in the family. My high school kid uses a 2011 MacBook Air with no problems and I have a 2014 MacBook Pro as a backup laptop for work. These devices last a long time.

    Where they did fuck up is not explaining what they were doing, and the slowdowns were probably more impactful than they expected.


  • I know I’m going to get downvoted to oblivion here, and people love to hate on Apple. But this was in response to older phones with old batteries sometimes not being able to keep up with the demands of the latest iOS and features and unexpectedly shutting down. So they would “dampen” the demands to keep them running.

    We want to keep our old phones forever but we also want them to do the stuff that the latest phones can do. Something has to give.

    This is litigation culture run rampant.