Correct, this won’t be. Even 10 years ago when I was on Reddit, people tended to side with Android and androids in 2016 actually did kinda suck. 85-92% of all Lemmy users are that, guys like me who used Reddit when it was good and left when they asked for a selfie to “confirm my age” on my 15 year old Reddit account.
These days, now on the fediverse? Even Apple users hate Apple, Android fans are packing their bags and moving onto either GrapheneOS or SailfishOS, and no one is really a ‘fanboy’ of anything anymore. We hate even the shit we like.
Except me. I’m still a fan of eating ass.
You sir are my hero , someone had to say it
Except me. I’m still a fan of eating ass.
Is this how you let us know you still daily drive a Windows Phone?
I’m no spring chicken anymore and I don’t remember Apple ever costing less.
And their software has always been anti-intuitive.
The last Apple I purchased was the Apple IIc. Has much changed since then? Do we still need to flip the floppy disk or can they do that with a robot now?
It never costed less
it actually did in the early days, when the options were buying a mainframe or buying an Apple PC
When did Apple generally cost less?
It’s only been sporadically that Apple released really good cheap hardware. The second or third geberation MacBook Air for example was a powerhouse for casual office work. Early M series as well had some good price points. But overall they’ve always charged a lot of RAM and peripherals.
iPhone was always above market, ipad is premium priced (but feels like the only major tablet that gained traction).
The Apple II line, the Macintosh line, and the Macintosh II line generally cost less than an equivalent PC (specifically an IBM PC 5150, XT, or AT), and most PC clones.
Apple generally cost less from 1977 to 1993.
The first generation of Arm Mac’s were pretty cost effective.
Yeah, it’s not a hard rule, it’s just not consistent and depends on your upgrades.
If you bought the mid-late 2010s models for example you basically needed ram upgrades, which cost an arm and a leg. Early M1 the swap was fast so RAM was acceptable at defaults, but also if you bought an M1 or M2 Max you really lucked out with LLMs and prices overall. M3 mini at 64gb I think was unbeatable value.
Current gen everything is fucked, but they’re pushing Mac Studio for LLM clusters and so no, they’re not cheaper anymore. They’re cheaper than a $100K GPU.
It never really cost less, but it was there slogan in the 90s.
“Cost less, do more. It’s that simple”.
Makes sense. I bought my first Mac in the mid 2000s (the early Intel models), and back then they were more expensive and did less.
I installed VMware Fusion and Boot Camp and then it did just as much or more than PCs. But the big thing was the total amortized cost was good and printer drivers weren’t pure evil.
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Files are obviously a nefarious invention by those evil Linux communists!
Big Linux forcing everyone into their ecosystem by being functional.
When did Apple ever cost less (than anything)? 2nd part is spot on.
That particular ad copy was used for the roll out of the Macintosh which debuted in 1993
Apple stuff stopped costing less around 1996.
Nice meme from 2007
They looked for an older one but couldn’t one
Doing my part: downvoted, for being irrelevant for 20-30 years. Apple hasn’t done much of anything to keep prices down for decades with some minor exceptions that pale in comparison to shit like a $1000-2000 phone.
And them being shitty about hiding the filesystem on iOS is practically 20 years old now too.
costs less
In the entire history of Apple has this ever been true?
Even when they fired Jobs and tried to compete in capability, all of their stuff was more expensive than the competition.
and thats why i like microsoft
I disagree. Currently apple does way more technological advancements than we ever had. Imagine an rtx5090 performance in a small factor of a 300w box. But it is also 96gb of ram on top and it also have the fastest CPU on earth (blender benchmark). The entire Mac mini M6 costs like a single 5090.
And considering how android moves backwards, enshittifies, removing features and adding fuckton of tracking, while apple is moving towards preserving privacy and anti-ai.
Don’t get me wrong, apple is still a walled garden, but they don’t even block you from installing Linux on their apple silicon macbooks.
And considering how android moves backwards, enshittifies,
Android is becoming a closed ecosystem like apple was from the start
EnShItIfIcAtIoN
