My coworker is massive Apple fanboy who gets the newest phone every year.
He goes through this exact process after a few days:
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Talks about how much faster the newest phone is
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Shows comparisons of photos or screen resolution
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Says it's expensive but the trade-in means he saves $x so really he only paid like 75% market price
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Talks about all the gadgets it connects to.
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Complains about how his prior phone did one thing he liked
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Complains about if it's worth the price
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Stops talking about it after multiple people point out feature x, y, z exists on other devices
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Gets excited about Apple World or whatever that conference is and prepares himself to buy the newest phone
Introducing the SlightlyBetter™ phone. Every year it gets slightly better!!
This year's features include:
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Slightly improved camera
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Slightly larger battery
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Slightly faster processor
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Slightly brighter screen
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Slightly louder audio
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Slightly quicker charging
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Slightly no headphone jack
It's the same phone as last year, but now SlightlyBetter™
Yeah, because they always just compare the new one with the old iPhone, not with competitors. "The best <insert random feature> in an iPhone ever!" Well, no shit, the new one isn't worse than the old one, gz!
And don't forget to invent crazy marketing names to hide tech specs ("Retina display" which wasn't even 1080p etc).
Slightly no headphone jack
Don’t let them fool you. It’s there, just covered by plastic for the extra Fuck You.
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he only paid like 75% market price
Which is still twice the price of a normal phone lol.
Nice to know your coworker "loves" the planet.
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It took about 10 seconds to realize I needed to filter out Vision Pro posts.
Especially all the shitty viral marketing going on. Mostly on Reddit of course. Like /r/Damnthatsinteresting having two posts about someone walking around with one in public. It's so damn obvious.
Did we say you could visit The Cursed Place?
Have you seen much marketing for it? I've had to seek it out. Vision pro is pretty neat to me, especially with how sharp it is and the ability to use with my macbook seamlessly, but sure as shit ain't worth 3,500. I think there are really well-executed ideas in there. That is what Apple does, not necessarily invent from scratch, but refine a concept and work it into their pretty walled garden.
It doesn't seem like Apple is aiming to make massive profit off this, seems very very gen 1 early adopter limited run. Seems odd to me there would be a full on marketing blitz other than fanboy and tech enthusiast reviews and hype.
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I need the most expensive and largest iPhone model for clout, I won't utilize the extra functionality, I just need people to know I got money!
I miss the days when people paid a drink for everyone in the bar so they know they were loaded, at least that day.
So... an extra mortgage it is then?
Just carry some money around then...
Me on my five year old iPhone XS Max and 2011 MacBook Pro: not for some of us I guess
Four year old 11 Pro going strong!
Lemmy hates Apple but I used my iPhone 5 for 4.5 years. I don’t NEED to upgrade my XS but I doooo like the idea of 120hz and USB-C.
Germans in ww1 getting promoted to officer
But this time around it has "titanium". Which is really nothing but a skin and nothing more.
Nah but see the new one has an apple logo on it. That's why it's worth $3600
All tech really. Innovation is dead.
I'm still using the same pc I built over 10 years ago. I can't keep up with triple A max graphics titles but my computer still serves me well with very little in terms of upgrades.
I haven't had a desire or need to upgrade my phone in like 3 years now. Only reason I upgraded that one was because it wasn't 5G and I live an area where 5G actually works and is fast.
Even stuff like that is intentionally held back these days. They'll release like 1 "new" feature per year, which is already a couple of years old at the time of release, so that you need to upgrade again in six months if you want features that have been around for several years already.
