Re:Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career
by simonh on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:30AM
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How can you Square writing that statement with the fact that Samsung (as just the foremost Android vendor) sells more phones than Apple, provides software updates for them for a fraction as long, has significantly shorter average device working lifetimes and doesn't come close to Apple's record on recycling? Yet you're picking on Apple. Name one device vendor that is doing more to address these issues? How can you be interested in this issue and not be perfectly aware of all of this?
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Downvoted the truth. It's hip to hate on Apple. I thought folks here had a little more intelligence.
I don't think it's about intelligence. I really don't see how the poster can possibly not know all of this. So if that's true, why post a comment like that? I don't think it's anything to do with a lack of smarts, in fact quite the opposite. People who post stuff like that know very well what they are doing.
I didn't downvote him - as far as I know you can't downvote replies to your own comments.
P.S. The other smart phone manufacturers are just as guilty, but Apple makes the most profit from externalizing their costs. The other phone manufacturers basically lose money on the operation AFAIK.