Of course, they’ve not been successful from nothing. Their stores are designed to give you the maximum face-to-face contact with employees as possible. Human contact is as important to them as their products being the most aesthetically simple and pleasing. If everything they did was evil quote unquote then they’d be nowhere.
But I think anyone who’s ever had an ipod, iphone, ipad, etc, can agree that planned obsolescence is built into these things with gusto. My family’s given the apple company a fair amount of cash over the years for their products and they’re the kind of people that like to get their money’s worth from electrical goods: my mother still has a huge 20-year old grey-plastic TV set because it refuses to die on her, or drop even a single pixel of the screen, and my dad refuses to replace his disgusting-looking workhorse ThinkPad because it only takes minimal upkeep and it just keeps barreling on. God only knows how old it is. I think it’s older than time itself.
Both of them have iPads, a gen 1 and gen 2. They were bought pretty much as they came out, so that’s 2010 and 2011.
Yeah, sounds insane to keep an Apple product that long, right? That’s part of the problem.
And let me tell you: they really don’t want to live that long.
The gen 1 crashes at everything, has long since been left behind by software upgrades of any kind (pretty much since gen 2 came out), and despite being fully charged at all times often decides that it wants to randomly and without provocation switch off entirely and not turn back on for several hours. The gen 2 crashes, moves the screen by itself, turns off, turns on, opens apps and closes them, everything except what you imput on screen.
As for me, I’ve had two ipod touches. One lasted me from 2009 (release of 3rd gen) to 2012 (release of 5th gen). I bought the 5th gen pretty much on release because it was dead, my poor little ipod. Despite never having been in more adverse conditions than a pocket, it was buggered: the left half of the screen didn’t work, then it did, then it didn’t, and had a knack of knowing when I was turning on the keyboard before buggering it up. My fifth gen still works perfectly despite having had it for 5 years in the exact same conditions as the 3rd gen.
Call me cynical, but I think it’s because I’m only one model behind on the line.
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