The burger is nearly always great, but occasionally it tastes strange. You are not allowed to see the ingredients and the staff suggest you might be able to improve the situation by re-wrapping and re-unwrapping the burger. This does nothing. The senior staff suggest leaving the burger in the fridge overnight and trying again in the morning. This does nothing. None of the staff actually know how to make a burger, but they will swap your strange burger for a refurbished burger for only $18.

I think this thread has transitioned from interesting analogy to just describing Apple's business model with the word burger instead of phone

Now, imagine McDonald's selling phones...

Microsoft would license their burger recipe. All the licensees would sell unique, subpar versions. They'd also for some reason have a $10 billion contract to supply burgers to the military.

They would also stop providing plates with the meal. They would be available for an additional charge.

Well, McDonalds did that like ~70 years ago.

https://youtu.be/KultzqPJaJs?t=264

and drinks would come in cans that require a special adapter but the adapters are so expensive you need to carry one around with you so you can drink when you’re thirsty.

and more and more people would simply accept that great burgers cost $20 and come from Apple if you want a decent one. While there are some other burgers that sound great at a lower price point, they occasionally give you e-coli. Mediocre burgers at a low price are still widely available.

All mediocre burgers are also sponsored by local companies who pay to have their logo on the wraps and their commercials on the wall in the restaurant.

Some new people try to make fresh burgers and get funding, only to be bought up by Mediocre Ads Burger and killed a year later.

Unfortunately people found out that they payed $20 for the sense of a great burgers, but found out that they were mediocre at best which began a new trend of making your own burgers - either from ready made components from all kinds of price/quality or even make them more or less from scratch. Though, some people insisted on keep buying overpriced burgers as they believed the ads made in the format as objective benchmarks or reviews.

I would pay $20+ for a fantastic burger, especially if all other burgers made people sick.

I love reading those.

That being said, I can make a pretty damn good burger myself. Sadly, can't say the same about Google/Apple/Microsoft products.

Found the Linux burger.

The silver lining is if you pay for it it pretty much will always taste decent.

Unless you like your burgers with barbecue sauce. That use case is bravely unsupported.

You’re eating it wrong!

In'n'Out burger?

I think they're pretty reasonably priced burgers.

Oh sure, was instead referring to the lineup.