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SpamSandwich said:

thewhitefalcon said:

Yep, doing business in Sharia-compliant countries is definitely supporting them. /s

Social Justice Warriors are on the warpath here. Completely asinine. Watch yourself! /s

"The pride with which some wear their bigotry sadly overshadows others who are forced to cloak theirs in apologism."

SpamSandwich said:

stevenoz said:

I will not support an anti-LGBT business. And I don't care for their 'religious' aura either. The religious tend to be the antithesis of how I think people should behave.

Do they make a good tasting chicken sandwich? That's all one needs to know to decide whether or not they deserve a person's business.

I hold Apple stock and I strongly disagree with a number of decisions Apple has made in the past and presently. Do I like their products. Yes, I do. Am I thinking of selling all my stock? No.

If such a ludicrous assessment of every single business and every person were the norm, all commerce and all interactions in the world would grind to a halt.

Thank you, Captain Apologism.

Darth Sidux said:

Paralysis said:

At its heart, Apple makes money selling hardware. It is slowly adding services like Apple Music and such to add profits, but every decision it makes is to move more hardware. Having iMessage and Facetime just on Apple hardware is their way of selling the advantage of staying in the Apple Ecosystem. 

Looking at it another way, I can't talk to friends with FaceTime who don't have Apple devices, essentially meaning the product is less valuable to me. Looking at it in still another way, someone who has lots of friends not on Apple has no incentive to go to Apple if once doing so means they can't use the base functionality provided by Apple to communicate to their friends, which they do with their current equipment. This, "let's keep it in Apple's ecosystem" argument isn't very strong in my opinion and actually goes against the original intention of FaceTime, which was to be an open standard such that it could become the de facto video calling app people used, regardless of system. Patent conflicts I think killed that plan, but the vision was written at the time it was launched, there was never any intention of keeping it all Apple only.

macxpress said:

apple ][ said:

That would be an idiotic, colossal mistake, if that were true.

Many people love the mini size.

I know somebody who uses both an iPhone 6S+ and the iPad Mini 4, and they like both.

At the moment, I'm still using my iPad Air 2 9.7", but I am probably getting a 12.9" iPad Pro, when it comes out later this year.

So because you know one person that uses both this means the entire market is for this?

Or equally, because *you* don't personally like the mini (as SOG rails ad nauseum) it should be killed.

People really get all worked up about a product they don't like, as if they have a right to personal offence because a product exists when they think it shouldn't, and the people who buy it aren't entitled to enjoy it. Talk about entitlement.

nht said:

kiltedgreen said:

It's been said before I'm sure, but outside the specialist attendees of this site, the majority of people want a computer (not a radio, TV, microwave, coffee grinder, etc.) to enable them to organise their photos, email their friends, write letters, surf the web, browse and order from Amazon, eBay and the like and video chat to their friends or perhaps just Skype them.

Before the iPhone,  a "computer" was what you needed to do all of the above. Now though, you can do all of those things from a smartphone or tablet. 
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Perhaps, it just needs to handle email, photos and access the web ...

Except that it can't really handle organizing photos.  In 2015 we took 1 trillion photos worldwide.  Just dividing that out means around a thousand a year for the average smartphone owner.

I have thousands of digital photos, and no, they won't easily or cheaply fit on iCloud.  Not to mention I prefer having both online and local backups of those photos.

An iPhone is powerful enough to be a computer but it simply isn't a replacement for a laptop.  Neither is an iPad Pro simply because of the limitations that Apple sets in iOS.

For YOU. What bothers me with this is that everyone who plays this game always places themselves in the "I'm a real computer user" category and everyone else that has other uses is placed in the other category ("those that play at computers"), how fucking convenient that it's everyone else who just plays with iOS toys, silly kids them.