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Is there a help line I can ring to prevent me from buying Apple products?

maflynn said:
Go for it, you know you really want too :D

I will say that I really love my iMac, its the best Mac to date. I've long said my 2012 rMBP was/is the best laptop I bought, but the beset overall mac is now the 5k iMac
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Stop. :(

I'm leaning toward the smaller 4K one though.
 
Plutonius said:
Look at the bright side. The Apple products have a high resell value so you will not lose too much money :).
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They once had a high resale value.

But times have changed and Apple products resale is no longer what it once was.

Oh sure I expect a hater will be a long with a story which claims nothings changed. But fact is nothing last forever. A market flooded with iPhones and other items is no longer willing to pay premiums.
 
I don't think there is a help line but you can help it by being offline more. Alot of Apple products are online-related. Change your lifestyle, stop posting on social media, and buy one of these...

It isn't a hoverboard but it is the next best thing...

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Move around more and enjoy life outside instead of staying stagnant looking at small screens for info. If smartphones and social networking is the most advanced technology I will ever see in my life, God help us all. I want to see teleportation stuff and robots. Not staring at smartphones, tablets, laptops, and watches all day to post selfies and likes. Real advancement in other technologies instead of mobile technology that made current society immobile.
 
I'll make it easy for you...buy the items you want and give them to me. I'll contact you regularly and tell you how much they sucked and over priced the items are. Hopefully, that will get you started on a path to prudent expenditures (grin).
 
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Savor said:
I don't think there is a help line but you can help it by being offline more. Alot of Apple products are online-related. Change your lifestyle, stop posting on social media, and buy one of these...

It isn't a hoverboard but it is the next best thing...

MTM1MTQzMzkxMTYyOTc2MjY2.jpg


Move around more and enjoy life outside instead of staying stagnant looking at small screens for info. If smartphones and social networking is the most advanced technology I will ever see in my life, God help us all. I want to see teleportation stuff and robots. Not staring at smartphones, tablets, laptops, and watches all day to post selfies and likes. Real advancement in other technologies instead of mobile technology that made current society immobile.
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Got to be careful with those these days: http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/16/amazon-dispose-unsafe-hoverboards/
 
If you can afford it, it isn't a bad addiction to have honestly, I would rather see this than drugs or an alcohol addiction, or hell even smoking.
 
dontwalkhand said:
If you can afford it, it isn't a bad addiction to have honestly, I would rather see this than drugs or an alcohol addiction, or hell even smoking.
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Other hobbies are just as bad. Photographers have lens lust and can spend a fortune on various lenses where they may barely get used.

I do think if you vet out your use cases, Apple products can fit nicely into your purchase decisions :D
 
MadDane said:
Are you planning on getting the iPad Pro or do you just like looking at the Pencil? :D
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LOLOL. Yeah, I walked into that, well played.

Well, I returned the Pencil yesterday :rolleyes:. However, I will replace the Pencil and get an iPad Pro now that I realized the laptops are just not for me. No matter how hard I try, I am not a trackpad person.

I will need to have Apple folks coach me on using the iPad Pro though - I haven't had much luck getting the knack of the Pencil yet. I am not an artist and my attempts at using the Pencil have been pretty laughable.

To be 100% fair, the 14th Street Apple store in NYC did not recharge the keyboard or the pencils they had on display. And it took me about a minute to realize the pencil was not charged...but no input devices were charged at that store (the Magic trackpads and keyboards were also dead. WAY TO GO 14th Street Apple peeps - this is now tied with 74th Street as my least favorite Apple store in Manhattan.)

Ahem... :confused::rolleyes::confused:

So yes, upwards and onwards with shiny new :apple:
 
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Look how dated all the hardware in my signature is. Believe it or not, they still meet my needs completely. None of these products are painful to use or slow in what I need them to do. As soon as something doesn't work as an efficient tool it will be updated. I may make an exception for the MacBook though, because I'm convinced it isn't going to die at this point. It's not that I don't have money to update yearly, it's that I see them as tools, a means to an end, which is already met by them. The reason I buy Apple is for the longevity and quality that allows this.

Think of other tools in your life, if they performed their purpose would you replace them anyways at additional cost? Would that be a reasonable way to spend your finite time (hours worked)?
 
SandboxGeneral said:
That shouldn't be an issue. Mac's tend to last quite a long time. Heck, I used a 2006 MBP for 6 years before giving to some friends who used it for about 3 more years until they bought an iMac of their own.

I'm still using my 2012 cMBP right now, and recently gave my 2010 iMac to my parents which still works great.

I think your new iMac is quite future-proof.
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I just gave my friend an 8yo iMac that is still going strong, running the latest version of the OS. Before that, I gave my niece an 8yo MacBool Pro that was also running the latest version of the OS. My husband once gave away an 11yo iMac that, although was not able to run the latest version of the OS, was still surfing the web, handling email, word processing and stuff like that of every day life.

Macs have an amazing life span.
 
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Macmamamac said:
I need help, i am on the verge of wasting lots of money on products i don't need.

I seriously want to buy a maxed out iPad Pro with pencil and smart keyboard and Apple Watches for me and the family.

The Apple Watch impulse is what has got me worried. I have never even considered buying this thing but now i have an uncontrollable urge to order several.

Help me.....
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maxsix said:
They once had a high resale value.

But times have changed and Apple products resale is no longer what it once was.

Oh sure I expect a hater will be a long with a story which claims nothings changed. But fact is nothing last forever. A market flooded with iPhones and other items is no longer willing to pay premiums.
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True, and other manufacturers/competitors products have tanked even faster. But Apple products still have a very good resale.
 
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I used to always want to buy Apple products, but I focused on being happy with what I have, and i've found the longer you hold on to Apple products, the longer you're content and happy with them. With my iPad 2, there was a time that I really wanted a new iPad, but I decided that I was happy with my 2.

As stupid as it sounds, sometimes i rearrange my apps, set a new background and get a new phone case and it feels like a new iPhone :p

So anyway, that went around in circles, but I feel the best way to resist the urge is to just be happy with what you've got :)
 
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