"“Buyers are smart, and if they start figuring out that one of the costs of buying Apple’s products is that they’re constantly nickel-and-diming you, they’ll switch,”
but earlier:
"So I could pay Apple $79 to replace the battery, or perhaps spend 20 bucks more for an iPhone 5C."
If they can't even figure out that an iPhone 5C costs more than $99 dollars, then the chances of them figuring out anything else seem slim.
Um........ Yeah. iPhone 4, an 3+ years old phone, which usage pattern are beyond what normal ( or called dumbphone) and therefore you charge it a lot more........
And you expect the battery to not died after 3 years of using it? Come on!
> And you expect the battery to not died after 3 years of using it? Come on!
On the other hand, if battery degradation after the warranty period is so predictable, then they could have built the phone to take swappable batteries. Otherwise their pretty much guilty as charged of planned obsolescence.
no evidence offered, no benchmarks, no citations, nothing. not even a personal anecdote(maybe "i used to be able to use the phone all day on 1 charge, but now it barely lasts past lunch.."?). no discussion of how product life cycles work. no discussion of how r&d is planned. i don't even like apple, but this is a bit much..
You see, it is fine people dont like Apple. I mean no one is forcing everyone to like them. I suppose people have different value and we have to learn to agree to disagree.
But the world has turned to attack Apple for the sake of Attacking Apple. To gain headlines or pageviews. And most of these attack are utter nonsense with zero facts and all imagination of thoughts.
"“Buyers are smart, and if they start figuring out that one of the costs of buying Apple’s products is that they’re constantly nickel-and-diming you, they’ll switch,”
but earlier:
"So I could pay Apple $79 to replace the battery, or perhaps spend 20 bucks more for an iPhone 5C."
If they can't even figure out that an iPhone 5C costs more than $99 dollars, then the chances of them figuring out anything else seem slim.