I see what they’re trying to do. Evidently the profit-margin for all the crap Apple now sells that not only is NOT a real computer, but which doesn’t need one is higher than the one for their computers.
If you’re Apple, and you can sell someone a $2000 high-end Mac, and from the proceeds of that sale must pay for all the work that supports it, updating all the bits and pieces of MacOS-X, etcetera etcetera etcetera, OR, you can sell someone a $400 Apple iWatch, a $400 Apple iHomePadPod or whatever, a $750 iPad with a $100 leather (sort of) case, and another $100 spent buying an iPencil, a $200 pair of headphones, a, and then be the only one who can sell music to use with/on most of those devices... oh, and I almost forgot a defective-by-design iPhone missing a headphone jack... (you know, so you can’t use your wired headphones you already have, already paid for, and that work just fine thankyouverymuch?) plus, (almost forgot,) an iApple iTV and Apple iRemote iControl, (and get a cut of every TV show and movie you watch, plus be able to know more about you to help target ads at you further increasing revenue,) and end up moving almost a thousand dollars more merchandise, each modular component of which, when it inevitabally fails shortly after the warranty expires, you will feel less reluctant to replace with another defective-by-design, designed-to-fail, already-obsolete-before-it-went-on-sale, overpriced POS, where each piece has a higher profit margin and lower costs to you to maintain, the choice is obvious.
Similarly, the choice for me is obvious, and that choice is not to give Apple another penny of my money.
I came to AppleWerld because of the Mac, because what I needed was a computer and what I WANTED was one that worked with the iPhone, because I was tired of watching my Android (Pain in the Ass POS) phone try and fail over and over again, at critical moments when I needed it to be able to be a phone, to BE a PHONE, (and no, I did NOT root it, and it wasn’t cheap either) which is a requirement I have for anything that is supposed to be a phone. I know, I’m weird that way.
But I will not be lured or tricked down the Apple rabbit-hole of squandering even more money so Apple can buy more land in one of the most expensive places on Earth, and put fancy stupid buildings on it that they don’t need, paying them, REWARDING THEM for slowly abandoning the Mac, (since it’s more expensive and users expect it to last more than 2 years, and won’t pay, throwing good money after bad, to replace them when they inevitably fail over and over again, unlike how they do for their iPhones and iPads and iTVs and their iRemotes and and iHeadphones or iBuds or AirPods or I AirPorts or iWatches and iPods (oh, did we forget them? Apple seems to have,) which in a sense stop working when Apple decides they will, which should be illegal, through the mechanism of Apple deciding they’re “vintage” and refusing to supply software updates for them anymore,) which is what they’re obviously doing.
