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Now, tell me again why the major businesses trying to get politicians to "break the AppStore monopoly" is working in the best interest of the user?

I'm sorry, but… the average user will always end up doing the most "stupid" things ever when horny/greedy/lazy/told to; and then they'll run to media crying about how it's the manufactures fault that they repeatedly shot themselves in the foot by intentionally throwing out the real manual, and instead using an "alternative truth" provided by some anonymous internet troll called HurtingPeopleForTheLolzSince1993.

Oh? Me bitter and hating people? Naaaaaaaw.

sellerington said:

I have been waiting patiently for Apple to release a new TV. I am hoping I don’t have to wait too much longer and that Apple have something good to release early in 2021. Seeing competitors like the Chromecast get the Apple TV app is somewhat confusing and also frustrating. I may end up having to get a Chromecast as I don’t wish to pay full price for an TV to see a new updated model come out soon afterwards.

Personally, as a happy user of Chromecast (primarily with Plex), the Chromecast was always what I wanted the Apple TV to be.

I simply don't need an Apple TV that is yet another fully functioning independent computer (albeit limited to certain uses); I just want what's more or less wireless HDMI (but with a bit of modern spice).

A tiny device that I can plug into any tv/display, and use with a combined interface that across all Apple platforms handles all displays (physically connected, AirPlay, Sidecar…).

Slap a bit of spacial audio on top of that and I'd be happy.

junor said:

I run a small online business and 90% of my customers come from running fb ads and the rest are people who were referred by my customers that came from fb ads.  BIg companies like Apple and Microsoft don't need targeted advertising... They're already giants in their industries.  Small businesses like mine depend on these targeted advertising because that's literally the only way we can market ourselves.  We don't have a storefront so we don't have the benefit of people just happneing upon our store.  We don't have the budget to run a large scale marketing campaign.  Targeted advertising is cheap, because it only targets our ads to the relevant people, as well as effective.  Facebook is right — this will be devastating for me and all of the small business owners throughout the world.  

Well, first of all, you are paying more for targeted ads; so the price per view will most likely drop, and you will still be able to target people based on a lot of other factors.

Secondly, maybe it just isn't worth it that every person in the whole damn world is forced to having all their data tracked, shared, and sold, just to keep your cost per click slightly lower?

I’ll just assume that the two people so very upset about my longer post went to a capitalistic school system, and couldn’t afford to pay extra for the reading comprehension class. 

canukstorm said:

jaswanthtutorials said:

Apple AirPods Max is Expensive. Its costs around 60k in India 

I've never seen so much controversy around the price of an Apple product since the $349 HomePod.  Many other brands have been making $500+ headphones for a lot longer than Apple and I don't recall anyone taking issue with that.  And some of those models from competing brands are less feature-rich than the APM.  But for some reason all hell breaks loose when Apple makes a $549 pair of headphones.

The criticism is valid, but not in the form that it took…

Apple has taken/created a very weird "niche" market with their products; the products are both luxuriously priced, and mainstream targeting average people. It's pretty much a market that shouldn't be able to exist; and without context makes as much sense as doing a startup selling luxury jewellery specifically to people that can't afford food.

Apple should have been outcompeted ages ago.

The outcry about OE headphones priced like these is simply because the target market would have to be absolutely crazy to waste this much money on headphones; it's a price range that they've never ever have even considered before. It makes as much sense as going straight from a cheap rust bucket to a Ferrari for grocery shopping and getting your kids to school.

People should have just seen these headphones, shaken their heads and muttered a few things about "rich people"; and then have moved on with their lives.

But… it's Apple.

It's Apple, and it's a product priced at a range that's been normalised by iPhones; and it's a product that comparatively speaking shows a great deal of status at a fairly low cost, while providing a continuing (new) functionality.

People should have been outraged at Apple for being disrespectful to their target market by creating products that are clearly priced so that the target market actually can't afford them.

Yet, because it's Apple the criticism has taken this weird form of people fundamentally accepting the situation; and are simply upset with the novelty of headphones existing in this price range.

And… since it's Apple… give it a couple of months for the mainstream to have tried these, and Apple have somehow just f*cking managed to normalise that everyone should spend up to a months rent on a pair of OE headphones.

(I can't decide if I should be impressed, or head out into the streets protesting the destructive evils of capitalism.)