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sloth77 said:

"It's a phone with a price tag above a thousand dollars and yet it gets marred by just debris in your pocket."

I think you know the answer to this problem: don't keep other crap in your pocket along with the phone.  I have an iPhone 13 Pro that is approaching two years old and has a flawless front screen, even when turned off.  But it has a dedicated pocket that I never keep other stuff in.  I also don't leave it lying around - if its not in my pocket, its on the charger.

Otherwise, nice article :-)

I'm still using an iPhone Xs, now going on past 5 years and the phone still looks almost like new.  There are a couple really small, light scratches on the screen if you look closely at the right angle with the display off.   It does have a case on it and it has been dropped a few times over the years.

I do think it will be time to upgrade this year. However, I have said that for the last 2 years.  

Apple doing anything is CA, which at least doubles the price if not more.  Even then, cut the price in half and it's still more expensive than just buying the displays from a 3rd party out of the country. So I get it Apple!!!  It's not like Apple makes their own chips.  They design their own chips and then have a 3rd party make them.  I never thought Apple would ever make their own screens.  I never thought Apple would ever make an Apple Car either.

Like any company, they do R&D in many different areas and a few of those things at some point become products and everything else is further developed or just tossed for whatever reason.  My feeling on the Apple Car was way too large of a product and not enough of a profit margin that enough people would buy it.  It made no sense to me.  Apple making their own screens?  That was never going to happen.

I'm not really one to waste a lot of time trying to customize my phone.  I have better things to do.  I just want it to work.  Will any of the new features I use?  Who knows.  I guess Apple has to keep on doing changes for better or worse.

As the EU gets more and more insane with all these policies.  It makes it more and more harder for anyone NEW to get into the market.  It's just to costly.  Basically, locking these companies in place.  What happens if Google and Apple pull out of the EU?  Could that happen?  Google is not even in China.  With the trade ban with China continuing to grow, who knows how much longer for Apple?   The EU is a huge market.   At some point, these companies need to put their foot down as the EU is getting too controlling for their own good.

If you don't like how Apple or Google does things with THEIR phones, how about an EU company makes their own OS and sell their own phones!!!  Oh wait, regulations is so insane, it's almost impossible for startups in the EU.  Where are they?  It's pretty rare.  Everything they keep doing is just locking in place these U.S. companies because no one in the EU can afford to do anything.  It takes a lot of money and TIME.   Better for the EU to just steal it from American companies.

hexclock said:

get serious said:

It costs about an iPhone every 10 days to keep a person in prison.

The cost of letting them roam free is much greater. 

Ya, they keep on stealing.  Suffer no real consequences for their actions and others see it and bam, you create more and more criminals to the point businesses left and right are closing.  People lose their jobs, creating more criminals.