This has strong “let’s enshrine and cement rules that help only us while our fascist team has the lead” vibes.

I am never gonna not up-vote a pro Luigi and anti CEO millionaires post.

And once again a Lemmy comment comes to the conclusion that capitalism is the problem, lol.

Yeah, if only we could have a revolution and Marie Antoinette some of the slave owners.

Its brain dead easy and works. Every Idiot is capable of using apple and won’t have that much problems with it.

Thinking like that, I bought an ipad gaming controller for a friend’s child. Turns out NOTHING worked until you connected it via a well hidden USB cable to a Windows(!) computer, downloaded a firmware flasher and updated the firmware. So Even “it is easy and works” is a lie. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…

Nah - Macbooks were an alternative at work purely because they are less shit than Windows and corporate allowed them. I have since freed myself from corporate IT jackasses and use my self installed linux box for work. But beyond that, all of Apple is - as you say - absolutely overpriced dogshit.

degoogled free phones with e.g. LineageOS are better. But monopolists make it a nightmare to get one running. However, the issue I am taking with iphones is not the usefulness to the user, but the ridiculous price for a phone that is manufactured by basically slaves under nightmarish conditions (remember suicide nets @ Foxconn buildings?) with materials from conflict zones (read: mine workers have their families butchered with machetes if they try to unionize) - so on top of these crimes against humanity, that most of the others commit as well, apple is still charging a price that is purely through the roof because of demand from an artificial hype, and that would be easily enough to build the whole phone under fair trade / fair labor conditions.

You need to work on your reading comprehension, or your short-term-memory. Or both?

iphones have a place about as useful as diamonds - as a status symbol alone. They are used to create out-groups and discriminate against poor people.

The original iphone may have been useful - the update hype with ever more expensive BS is just milking stupid people for cash.

Honestly, people who still buy apple phones are dumb fucks. No way to say this nicely.

There’s a weird discrepancy where Mac Laptops are decent machines despite being on the expensive side, but iphones are just overpriced hot garbage locking you into an ecosystem.

Troll elsewhere, dipshit.

Fuck Microsoft. But first, Fuck Google, Fuck Amazon, Fuck Facebook. I am sure I could think of a few more that are worse than Microsoft, as bad as they are.

doing something against better judgement out of stubbornness harms no one but yourself. be my guest…