I mean what the fuck?!?! Not only that but you have to use a fucking dongle to connect one (and AFTERMARKET if you want 60hz!). How the fuck is a computer company in 2018 failing to sell whole computers?????? These clowns sell two different desktop PCs and literally nothing to connect them to. Not only that, but based on my recent experience where I had to return a 4k monitor, they don't even connect well to third-party displays! What in the fuck is going on over at Apple right now? I mean this is sheer fantastical incompetence on a level I've never seen before.
What pisses me off is that I'm being forced into upgrading too, and I don't even have an iphone. I've got an early smartphone with a removable battery. I planed on using it until it died, potentially another 10 years, but now the fully charged battery doesn't even survive though the night to play my morning alarm. Apparently no one even makes a battery that fits it.
I'm actually tempted to 3D print an extended back plate and just solder some other battery in there to extend its life...
What pisses me off is that I'm being forced into upgrading too, and I don't even have an iphone. I've got an early smartphone with a removable battery. I planed on using it until it died, potentially another 10 years, but now the fully charged battery doesn't even survive though the night to play my morning alarm. Apparently no one even makes a battery that fits it.
I'm actually tempted to 3D print an extended back plate and just solder some other battery in there to extend its life...
I feel you. Planned obsolesence and disposable consumer culture really bothers me. I love to fix things and keep them working as long as possible and feel really bad when there is something really small wrong with it that can't be replaced easily because nobody makes it.
It kind of seems like other phone manufactuers have taken a lesson from Apple and love to build designs too that can't be upgraded/replaced easily.
I feel you. Planned obsolesence and disposable consumer culture really bothers me. I love to fix things and keep them working as long as possible and feel really bad when there is something really small wrong with it that can't be replaced easily because nobody makes it.
It kind of seems like other phone manufactuers have taken a lesson from Apple and love to build designs too that can't be upgraded/replaced easily.
The eWaste bothers me about them too. Their users are incredibly smug but have no second thoughts about the ecological disaster they are causing by upgrading to the newest iShit every new generation.