I HATE APPLE

or take it to a FixIt booth in the local shopping centre and pay them £15 to clean it out with a 'special cleaning tool' (which is probably a cocktail stick)

(it worked, phone went from being unchargeable and is like new again. there was no visible gunge in the socket so i was sceptical but...)

Koogs otm

Sometimes the charging cable can be the problem too what with corrosion.

I have several charging cables… one definitely had gone bad. I think I will try the stick method! Thanks ilx

be persistent with the stick method if it's not working. many a time charging hasn't worked and i've thought "there can't be any lint in there, i've scraped and scraped" but i just needed to scrape more.

Yeah the lint gets a tenacious grip in there, like some kind of sf alien that needs to be tricked out of its hideyhole.

The phone is at least 5 years old…

Point of pride

I had a powerbook that was good for 10 years

That’s the spirit

My 22yo daughter defiantly uses a 2013 MacBook Pro 13 for her work, not interested in switching it up

I'm in support of this. My 2011 macbook pro just kicked the bucket after very long service. I upgraded to a 2012 mbp for £90. I want to be able to watch my old DVDs and burn CDs.
Apple annoy me when they unilaterally decide that you, the user, are done with certain formats or ways of doing things.
I fell out with them when they closed Final Cut Pro and the associated apps and changed it to final cut X. I'd never trust them again and never bought an iPhone as a consequence.

you could get a new superdrive for $80

That's a good thought. I've still got a very weighty 2007 iBook that I use for occasional DVD use.

I'd never trust them again and never bought an iPhone as a consequence.

On the positive side, Apple provides support and updates for their iPhones for a longer period than most of their competitors.

Yeah, I'd already replaced the superdrive once, the hd twice, the cooling fan once and the battery three times. I can do it all over again so long as I can find the spares.

Apple provides support and updates for their iPhones for a longer period than most of their competitors

Fair point. My dad gave me his old iPhone 10 but it's still in a box. I'm typing on a Galaxy A6 that I paid off on contract years ago. I like the mini-jack and the sdcard slot; it's a glorified iPod. I didnt make it past 4th gen iPod. I started using my phone for music then.

I don't hate Apple but I loved them at a point in time and then they left me to go and do bigger things 😭

I remember when the super drive came out, it was like “this can do everything I need, I’ll never need anything else” lol

I still have and use my iPod for music. Its battery is fine

They sound better than the phones imho

Almost bought one of those transparent mod refurb ones

absolute psycho shit

Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create. pic.twitter.com/6PeGXNoKgG

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) May 7, 2024

whole lot of people angry about that commercial online due to the implication it's advocating throwing away traditional means of cultural production and cultural artifacts

honestly I think the ad agency people watched a bunch of those crush videos that get a lot of engagement on instagram/tiktok/etc
and were thinking "we're compressing this all into the iPad"

(I think it's not a good ad)

wow terrible ad

At least it's inspired by hydraulic press crushing videos instead of sexy feet crushing videos.

really upsetting ad

hahaha wow wtf were they thinking

honestly made me hate apple in a visceral way that not even years of dumb icloud bugs could manage

even the stablecoin techno optimist blue checks replying to that think it's bad

otm

The very existence of this ad⁠—all the hoops it had to go through in its creation before getting to the point where it was personally promoted by this CEO, all the people who thought 'yes, this is good'—says more than thousands of words could about how tech sees the world. https://t.co/tMrfrzsJ0n

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 8, 2024

there's even a little animated character that looks up in horror and then is presumably crushed??

Hasn't Apple's attitude toward creative people been "We will crush you and you will thank us" for like two decades at this point? It certainly feels that way, and it's not like I'm gonna stop using their products.

i always thought i'd find it impossibble to pivot away from using their products but my wife has successfully managed to do it relatively painlessly and i think i will try to follow her lead. awful, awful company.

no it's been "here's to the dreamers" and everybody's cool and boppin around and expressing their own unique bohemian identities via apple products. apple famously said their mission isn't to make great computers it's to change the world. i mean whatever their mission is obviously to make a shitload of money but this ad is just a leeeetle bit inconsistent

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really wonder if apple will turn into a kodak in our lifetime

they'll reach the 90s lows again until someone unveils the Futurama-style cryogenically preserved and reanimated Steve Jobs floating head

I could give up my iPhone for one of the clean Android phones but that's really just trading uncontrollable diarrhea for uncontrollable vomiting. Windows is a vast and baffling world, whenever I set a new one up for something I have to disable even more (Microsoft, not even third party) bloatware and garbage than with new Macs.

Maybe Linux nerds have been on to something this whole time.

feel like they could have done a better version of the crush ad by just crushing some apple desktops or macbooks. maybe crush tim cook too. but that'd be bad for the other apple products!

crush u2

(The band)

Ha, I love it. But I'll watch hydraulic crush videos for hours already.

they're very popular!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPh64MGfcBM

I saw someone point out they could make this a good advert by playing it in reverse.

Finally a replacement for "Lemmings" as the worst Apple ad ever.

Marques Brownlee reviews the new iPad, says...it's an iPad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0MGehwWvE

Read max had a good piece on that guy as the last tech blogger this week.

I’m old and only recently noticed him but it’s nice to see someone who’s on the reviews beat who isn’t epic bacon or a weirdo devotee. Just letting me know if things work and are worth my time