They included new technology every year but didn't take way something to make up for it. Not only that, but seems like existing devices that have already been out with existing technology are still being sold for the same price as before but now with less in terms of what the consumers get.
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Regulatory Filing Confirms Samsung Will Copy Apple and Ditch Power Adapters
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Well, in a similar manner a glass that is half full can only be seen as half empty.
But is it relevant to rumours about Apple or does it fuel ad impressions half full or not?
That would similarly be an assumption as well. On the other hand, taking the SE as an example, the cost stayed the same while you now get less with the purchase.
Certainly what pretty much direct completion does or doesn't do is relevant. And just like any article or discussion it can also generate revenue, given that without that sort of revenue it would be rather hard to offer what a site like this one does.
They don't care how you see the glass, as long as you are talking about the glass on their website.
And of course the more us vs them debate, the better for the clicks and ad revenue. Too cynical?
I would agree with you, except for Apple hasn’t changed anything. Apple has added options, but that’s it.
If you bought an iPhone 5 back in 2012, the first iPhone with a lightning cable, it came with a 5 W brick.
You can still use that original lightning cable and that original 5 W brick with your iPhone 12. It still works, just as effectively as it did in 2012.
Apple has just added options, and there always was options. Even with the old 30 pin connector, the iPhones came with a 5 W brick. They also offered a 10 W brick for iPads, but if it was used with an iPhone it would actually charge faster.
So Apple has not changed anything, they have just added options. Now, you could use the 5 W with lightning cable that they shipped from 2012 to 2019, you could use the 10 W brick they used to ship with iPads, you could use a lightning to USB-A or USB-C cable, you can use any brick you want, you can use a third party brick, Lightning cable, or QI wireless charging pad. And, in 2020, apple introduced magsafe, just a new option in a market full of options to charge your phone. It’s not a requirement, it’s just a new option.
Everybody here assuming Samsung is copying Apple. Wrong. This has been on the drawing board for a while now.
Samsung executive meeting:
”ok, now hear me out fellas. If we don’t let the user charge it, it can’t explode in their hands”.
...
”Genius! Put it on the product roadmap.”
Samsung executive meeting:
”ok, now hear me out fellas. If we don’t let the user charge it, it can’t explode in their hands”.
...
”Genius! Put it on the product roadmap.”
What happens when a company go down the path of something that's just dumb, others realise that they got away with it and jump on the thing that they can do it too. But it's the customer that looses out and no one from a company side give a stuff.
An environmental protection doesn't work when you just pass the buck down to the consumer, it's just about making a company look good.
Of course they did! Samsung has very little in the way of independent thought when it comes to mobile devices.
Nah my solar powered torch is crap...Apple should come up with solar powered phones and be done with it.
Weren’t Samsung poking fun at Apple with an ad that they still included a charger? Shocking....🙄
When Apple removed the headphone jack not only did they include headphones that would work with the lightning port but they also included an adapter in addition to it all. Now when Apple changes the cable that's included they completely remove a power adapter from being part of the purchase.
You’re seriously trying to convince us that you don’t have access to even ONE usb port?