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Are You fucking thick, or being paid by apple? They release the same phone every 2 years and force you to change by slowing down software. I've had a cheap Xiaomi phone for 5 now. Still works fine. My friend has a Samsung for 8 years. Either one of these cost less than a fifth of a price of an iPhone. Laptops? I've had an Acer for 7years. It cost less than a quarter of a price of an apple with lower specs. Now I'm using a Lenovo for 3 years, end when I needed more storage space, I dismounted the 1TB hard drive from my 7 year old laptop and installed it in my current pc. And the 7yo Acer? I gave it to my grandma, she still uses it, so it's being used for a decade now. Do any of this shit with an overpriced apple product, I dear You. Not to mention their stupid design. I was working once in an office where they used apple. Only time ever when my hands hurt from using a keyboard. And the moronic wireless mouse which looked the same front and back so people regularly held it backwards. And the charging port was on the bottom, so you couldn't use it while charging. Overpriced, overadvertised shit.
First off, they release the same phone every year thank you very much.
Second, just because you’re using those devices doesn’t mean they’re properly supported. Those phones haven’t received a single security update in years which means you’re vulnerable to various kinds of SMS attacks that have been patched on devices that have received security patches. That’s the other part of E-Waste. Devices getting actual software and security support. Just because you can upgrade the SSD in a laptop doesn’t make it less E-Waste. You have simply now added a new drive to the mound of trash if that drive failed. Back in 2014-16 HP laptops had these Intel SSDs in them. They failed like crazy. Usually about 10 per every 100 devices. We kept a supply of SSDs on hand for when those drives eventually shit themselves. Now, on a MacBook a failure rate of the SSDs/internal storage is incredibly low. I personally haven’t had a MacBook that’s had internal storage failure and I’ve managed probably close to 750 MacBooks. So of the probably 2000 hp laptops, with Intel drives that we swapped after 2 years because they were dying. We created a decent amount of e-waste. Just because we could repair the device easily doesn’t mean it isn’t still contributing.
We need higher quality materials used in fab with longevity, not just repairability. I can fix almost anything given enough time. I can’t fix thousands of broken things constantly assaulting me with work orders because of unreliable parts.
Maybe don’t write out messages when you’re hOrni.
The "h" is silent.