• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    it never ceases to amaze me the amount of time, energy and money apple spends engineering things to be worse for customers.

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      2 months ago

      It’s more cost effective to integrate the controller.

      Being worse for customers is just a happy accident.

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        2 months ago

        You and I both know that Apple doesnt do this shit for cost efficiency.

        They do it to make make shit worse for consumers and “unauthorized” repair services.

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          2 months ago

          They’re a business. Reducing their costs (while charging you a premium) is absolutely what they do.

          Apple’s whole deal for decades now has been building a vertical supply chain. Using their own SSD controller is one less component they have to pay others for.

          They just don’t give a shit about downsides: aftermarket repairers or user upgradeability.

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      2 months ago

      Why? Anti-features aren’t just Apple. All big tech do it to users.

      Edit: And automotive, white goods companies, etc, etc

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        2 months ago

        other companies arent engineering serial numbers and other identity information into every component, even shit as small as halleffect sensors, so it cant be taken from a damaged device to repair a differnt device of the same make and model.

        To act like what apple does is an industry standard is nothing but blatant apple fanboy propaganda.