• Misconduct@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Other than their asinine charging cable/accessory situations I consistently find myself agreeing with Apple pretty much any time any government body or group is mad they won’t do something.

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      1 year ago

      They’re generally on the wrong side of the battle for right to repair and removable batteries too.

      But yeah, privacy they almost always have the right of it.

    • TwanHE@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Requiring usb c was something I agreed with. But indeed many times apple has rightly fought for their userbase.

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      1 year ago

      how do you reckon?

      only time they have been on the consumer’s side was with regards to privacy, refusing to comply with the FBI and now this.

      everything else they are pretty anti-consumer, off the top of my head

      • first to remove jack 3.5 (even though I don’t really care about this, others do.)
      • sticking to shitty lightning cable so they can sell overpriced cables
      • the charger thing with the EU
      • worst of all entirely against right to repair
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        1 year ago

        To be fair, those first three points fall squarely under that “charging cable/accessory situations” exception. With Apple, it turns out that’s a pretty broad exception.

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          1 year ago

          Bluetooth provides another vector of attack for the convenience. There is already quite a list of known vulnerabilities. Yes, many of these get patched but as the open standard evolves, so do the hackers. You could turn it off entirely, plug in a cable & forget all that if all you wanted to do was use audio/video.

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          1 year ago

          like I said, I personally don’t care, but it’s a nice port, pretty ubiquitous and it’s nice to have choice for customers.