Apple's products are overpriced and underpowered, locked down devices sold as fashion statements or 'lifestyle' accessories that are more like toys for rich people than the miniature computers they're supposed to be.
There is nothing illegal about selling rich people toys or dumbing down a device to make it appeal to a certain type of customer.
I have never really cared for Apple products in general and also think they are over priced for what you get but for me that just means I don't buy them, I don't really begrudge them making money off a customer base I just don't fit into.
Where in the parent's quote that I was responding to was there anything about laws?
I was specifically responding to:
>Amusingly, there are two sets of people arguing about why Apple is bad,
I see nothing about legality. I see the word bad.
Are you positing that someone manufactures a better and faster SOC for mobile devices?
>Are you positing that someone manufactures a better and faster SOC for mobile devices?
Thanks for proving my point.
Apple has had the best real world performance on mobile for many years running. Their SOCs are years ahead of the competition. Bigger numbers on the spec sheet lack strong correlation to actual performance these days.
2. Apple is a monopoly/monopsony and should be forced to allow more user choice of apps, allow sideloading, lower their prices, lower their app store cut, &c.
What about 3?
Apple's products are overpriced and underpowered, locked down devices sold as fashion statements or 'lifestyle' accessories that are more like toys for rich people than the miniature computers they're supposed to be.
As for their computers, similar argument, overpriced, underpowered, locked down hardware.
And then there's the whole culture of snobbery surrounding Apple and their products that has existed since at least the mid-late 90's about how superior Apple products are to everything else always that's just kind of grated on me...well since then.