• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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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
    • Perhyte@lemmy.world
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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.

      • lemme_at_it@lemmy.world
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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.

      • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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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.