frankly the shiny thing desire of new iphones has worn off on most people in my impression. most people i know buying an iphone end up choosing a 14 or 15, and those who don’t are usually taking advantage of carrier offers. an iphone 12 is pretty much indistinguishable from a 15 for most people, and considering that 16 sales were lower than expected, it doesn’t look this those changes to the look are really driving sales either. the 400ish dollar difference between a 16 and an se is going to be a pretty hard sell for most,if the rumors of its specs are true. even considering the downgraded camera (this will probably be the only real reason people choose the higher end model)

Recent iphone models have “easily” removable back glass, and it’s actually the main entrypoint for replacing the battery, lowering costs due lower risk of a broken screen (see new google pixels with screens that almost always break on removal)

After this, apple also lowered the cost of most repairs, including on models that don’t get the new replaceable back. the non applecare cost for a battery replacement ranges from 80-100 dollars roughly. which is comparable to the cost of a replacement with even a generic battery from a 3rd party shop.

please don’t

obviously, because absolutely nobody buys the equivalent products already sold by google and amazon

it will probably run kaios, so yes

crazy take

You realize how massive of a marketing pull both of those are right, the 1000 dollar wheels were like 20% why people didn't forget the mac pro 2 days after it was announced.

dyson is in every sense the apple of vacuums lol

I think watching apple's promotional videos will explain a lot of your concerns better.

They've already promoted the idea of connecting a dualsense controller for playing games.

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I'm majorly blaming these people when Trump wins.

You did not address their main point, which is that there simply isn't a candidate that has a better, or even comparable, chance of winning.

Approval ratings are also notoriously inaccurate, especially for dems.

*ruin your year

There's a lot that I could say, but it simply boils down to them always favoring their corporate and ceo's interests over their charitable ones.

Their ceo (and branch ceo's) make obscene amounts of money.

Theres also that case and probably even more about an autistic woman being paid like less than 25c an hour.

Probably "evil" isn't the right word, but they absolutely do not have "good-will"

Thrift stores in America are usually corporate and not for charity. Or, they pretend to be charities (but aren't)

Goodwill is fucking evil.

Spotify literally changed the way people listen to music by being popular enough that the general way of listening changed from a purchase, listen forever model. To a listen to anything you want and never not have anything new, way of listening (but you don't own anything).

A song is no longer worth a purchase of a cd, or dollar at itunes. It's worth the 3 minutes of listening that it gives you when Spotify recommends it to you.

Obviously I'm biased. And also, yes, there were streaming services before Spotify, but nobody that mattered and with the influence of Spotify.

South Georgian here, we also call it this.

Pretty sure people have said this for like 10 years

This is exactly what the article said