I’m sure they’ll maintain this service for each product for many, many years and totally won’t stop supporting thus ending the usability of the product you should probably own because you probably paid money for it.

I’m baffled, there’s people in the comments defending getting even less than usual from apple while very likely with the same price tag as the last model, or higher.

I never had a problem with you enjoying the machine you do, or any one else. Use what you want that’ll make you the most productive.

Of course every company has defective devices though. But this is the difference, with PC you can choose between a variety of OSes, brands of pre-builds or-you can skip all the brands like many do and just build one out of the components you want to and service/upgrade as you choose to do.

From what I’ve seen from Louis Rossman’s vids on youtube, they CAN be repaired by someone like him. Apple apparently charges a lot as you said.

Great start to a discussion- You don’t know me, or my background, or even what device I use.

Try an apple product before I buy it?
Been doing that since High School my dude. iPods failing within 2 weeks of owning them, trying to give me a refurb after waiting an hour. Years of working with them in college, my colleagues units, clients, friends/family.
I’ve been building computers since the Pentium 3 days, for…

I’ve been working on computers for years and have several friends come to me with failing devices.

You misunderstand when I say defects. I mean the entire LINE, of their product has been defective. Those defective keyboards? They just don’t work, period. They were such a poor design they failed in short spans, tried to brush it off till legal action was taken against them.

It’s too expensive and their track record with laptops over the past several years hasn’t been great.

Raytracing is too demanding to have in a console, when it takes a $400GPU to do it reasonably well, they’re not putting that kinda tech in $500 hardware. They might brute force it, but they’re not going to use it in much at all.

I’m not sure what you’re on about?

As I understand it, they haven’t been selling consoles at a loss since the PS3 days.

I’m aware of the constant lies pre launch.

They also dropped the second ethernet jack, think they were going to do a some kinda media center & router combo? Media center sure happened, that 2nd port sure didn’t.

You kiddin’? You should see the early PS3 material. Think it had 2HDMI ports and 2 ethernet jacks and promised 1080p, 120hz gaming at one point. Boy did they scale that back, then s’more when the console was too costly to make and they had no games to back it up for ...2 years? Thankfully that all recovered & they got…

Sony and MS are being real cute, they’re not making a $500 device that runs 60fps with raytracing and at 4k. The video cards that help make that possible are more money than a PS4 or XB1X. Then I was reading they’re going to also be doing 120+ fps? In what reality? I’d prefer them focus on high framerates vs 4k and…

I’m not knocking Stop Skeletons for Fighting for their great coverage of the tech that I’ve frankly never heard of. Their videos have been super interesting and I hope to see more on weird stuff like this.

I imagine they didn’t let you use a mouse because it, again keeps the control on the controller.

There’s quite a few games that supported mouse and keyboard, but I’m sure that took away from accessory sales so they made it harder to do so. Red Faction 2 on PS2 could use a mouse and keyboard, few dreamcast games could. I believe some other shooters let you do so as well.