• Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    Money is fake and all but they will develop new ARM based computers that by all we know are going to be exceptional and might even be economically sensible.

    Their chips for phones (also ARM based) are best in class so I wouldnt bet against it.

    Then there is the argument that Apple products, while extremely over priced, tend to las significatly longer, making the investment more sensible and helping out the environment a little bit, I am still daily driving my late 2011 Macbook Pro that I got second hand with a broken disk drive for basically nothing. 6 years of use and sttill trucking.

    Then again, they are an incredibly unethical company in most metrics, no such a think as ethical consumption under capitalism after all.

      • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        4 years ago

        I repair my own MacBook just fine, not sure what you are talking about. I know they put restrictions on private reapir shops to get parts and training but apparently they have lift that policy recently.

        They admitted to slowing down phones that have low battery health, sure It might be all about slowing your phone to get you to buy a new one but If they wanted to do that (they most likely do anyway) there is a million better ways to do it than throttling the CPU, that is incredibly obvious.

        As for Qualcomm having better chips, sure, right now the best processor is the one in the ROG 3, but that phone has just been released, the last Iphone was released almost a year ago.

          • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
            ·
            edit-2
            4 years ago

            There are engineering reasons for every single one of your grievances, Im sure you can find them if you ook for a bit since you seem versed on hardware, then again, It is also acceptable to think that they do it to hurt the repairability of their products to milk more money from insurance and official repair shops.

            The problem is that often all other companies come to the same engineering solutions that seem at first "anticonsumer" but when Its not apple doing it people seem to be more understanding, perhaps because Apple products are overpriced or maybe because they often do it first or a combination of both.

            I do not support Apple as a company in any way, I just think they do some cool products and Im excited about their upcoming technology, they spent a lot of RND money on it through this last few years of stagnation.

              • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
                ·
                4 years ago

                Yeah, I agree. But making products with a strong design motive is perfectly valid, they should give people more options to get a MacOs machine for power users or more value centric consumers but they wont, they are ruthless in that regard. The last Iphone SE though seems to be a step in the right direction.

                I didn't know about the propietary Ram, the screws honestly I do not care that much about, you can get a screwdriver por pennies on ebay, no idea what they do it for though.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
      ·
      edit-2
      4 years ago

      I've been trying to move my consumption away from supporting capitalism, just for my own personal sanity. Unfortunately when it comes to phones it seems there's no way to avoid Apple or Google, and both are awful.

        • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
          ·
          4 years ago

          100%

          I still use a Galaxy Tab 2 with a SlimRom 7, overclocked and kept light it works great for youtube and movies.

          Lineage OS is also another great option.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            Unlocked phones are the way to go, there are more and more arm based distros coming out. Soon I think we'll have a Linux like os for phones. Unlocked ones at least.

            • Rojo27 [he/him]
              ·
              4 years ago

              There the PinePhone which has a few different distros available for it. Not that I'd really recommend it for a daily driver since its more of a development device more than anything else. But I trust that the community will be able to get things working even if it takes a while.

                  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
                    ·
                    4 years ago

                    I was debating between fairphone and the newest Zenphone (because it only has one camera that swivels). Ended up going with the Zenphine for the storage (have 500gigs on my phone lol) and extra power.

                    Still probably should have gone with the faiephoen just for the OS options and replaceable parts though.

              • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
                ·
                edit-2
                4 years ago

                You can get an overclockable kernel, a newer version of Android with further apdates, more optimization, get rid of GAAPS (Google Play Services and the Store) if you dont need it, FDroid and Aurora Store are more than enough for most people and do not hog your resources.

                Also security updates.

    • HKBFG [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      and this makes them worth three times as much as the entire conventional energy sector?

      • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Lol no.

        They might be more profitable than the entire energy sector though.

        But value and profit often go in different directions.