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• 5y

Marketing Apple is the proof that something inherently inferior can still sell well, as long as it is marketed well.

Apple users try hard to rationalize their decision of spending their next grand on something they would not have given the slightest damn about, hadn't it been marketed as godlike and promoted by Instagram/Snapchat influences as a status symbol.

Apple users try hard to rationalize their decision of spending their next grand on something they would not have given the slightest damn about, hadn't it been marketed as godlike and promoted by Instagram/Snapchat influences as a status symbol.

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/s/crApple

created 5y ago

About this sub

Post failures of Apple here!

This includes:

Current failures
Priroritizing slim design over functionality and robustness.
Logic fails
Gate-fails (e.g. Bendgate).
Apple-roasting commercials.
Historical disadvantages
Crappy experiences
Naïvity and double-standards of Apple's iSheep users
Exposing low price-performance.
Popularizing non-user-replaceable batteries.
etc…

This subverse is the equivalent to Reddit's /r/AppleSucks, but without ravenous censorship by their moderator Ani625..

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Resources:

Historical: List of 100 things Android phones can that the iPhone 5s still can not. (archive.today)

Wiki articles

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Criticism of Apple (en.everybodywiki.com)
Benefits of user-replaceable batteries (en.everybodywiki.com)
List of features iPhones got late (en.everybodywiki.com)
List of features iPhones lack (en.everybodywiki.com)
Apple cult (en.everybodywiki.com)
The phonelitical spectrum (en.everybodywiki.com).

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Louis Rossman, Meta, Feedback, Battery, Camera, User interface, Design trend, Crappy design, Functionality, Marketing, Humor, Sheeple, News, Epic Fail, Historical, Question, Did you know, Hypocrisy, Toxic mininalism, Meme, Planned obsolescence, User revolts, Crappy support, Genius bar, Escape, Security breach, Proprietary system, Repairability, Design over functionality, Corruption, Ignorance, Logic fail, iSheep be like, Cognitive dissonance, Brainwash, Removed features, Funny names, Hypothetical scenario, Colour, Humour, iPhilosophy, Ecosystem trap, Pun, Thoughts, Apple-mocking commercials, Poor data portability, Absurd pricing, Scandals, Corporate greed, Shilling, Parody, Satire.

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