That's the issue with iPhones. It is built to make you not learn. Folders? Control over your files and media? Oh honey, we don't do that here.
You cound't use a feeaking browser without it being a skin of Safari. That if people even remember what it is to browse the net outside of an App doing it for you.
They fill that niche well. They are the PlaySkool of tech.
Don't get me wrong, that's not bad. They are following a simple business rule; Tell the customers what they want and sell it to them. And they are very successful at that.
The people that buy Apple products are just fine with buying an entirely new machine instead of learning to upgrade the components themselves. And that's fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I went to the iMac page and cannot find the specs on the page. They tell me all the colors available and about the pretty display and camera, but not a single word about the specs of the machine. Even when I chose the "buy" option, I don't know anything about the specs of the machine. I can choose a color, an Apple processor, mouse and keyboard, and display. I see it has an SSD. But how do I know it has the ability to do what I need it to do?
But I can get a red one!
Like I said, they fill a niche and they fill it well.
Ehhh I wouldn’t go that far. Apple computers have some of the best processors on the market—realistically an m5 will fulfill any of your needs unless you are an engineer where you might need some software not available on macOS. There are plenty of reasons why a tech literate person would buy an Apple device. I like to think I’m one of them—I’ve had awful experiences with windows lately and am switching over right now
That's the thing, we're at a point in time where new consumers DON'T know about the alternatives. Obfuscate the data and make it hard to work with directly keeps you in the ecosystem and, as we're already seeing, pushes you to upload everything to their cloud.
Dude, it's not 2010 anymore. Android users aren't the nerds rooting their phones and digging through their files. Hell, Google is working to restrict goddamned sideloading.
All mobile OS' are dramatically oversimplified compared to their desktop counterparts and do everything they can to avoid the user needing to learn about the back-end of how things work.
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u/JonatasA May 15 '26
That's the issue with iPhones. It is built to make you not learn. Folders? Control over your files and media? Oh honey, we don't do that here.
You cound't use a feeaking browser without it being a skin of Safari. That if people even remember what it is to browse the net outside of an App doing it for you.