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Out of curiosity, how many Apple products have you owned?
1 x Powerbook
2 x iPod Classic (5.5 and 6th Gen) (both died miserable deaths)
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Apple controls their process to ensure that they are able to predict every variable that may surface. How many people are having issues with SD card incompatibility, exploding after-market batteries, etc?.
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Aftermarket batteries are a non-issue, since Apple won't warranty their hardware if used with 3rd-party components. I'm not referring to substandard 3rd-party items. My issue with Apple is that they squeeze battery life to a rediculous extent, just to make their devices skinny - in other words, they are sacrificing important factors such as battery duration, at the altar of 'bling'. ...and almost every other manufacturer, big or small, seems to feel compelled to follow Apple's approach, like lemmings.
Take a look at the Powerbook line. They used to have swappable batteries, for people on longhaul flights, or who needed to do an entire days work away from a power socket. Then they decided to do away with swappable batteries altogether. They claimed this was so they could squeeze more lithium polymer real estate into a cramped area, and I do concede that there is a degree of legitimacy to this, particularly with Intel now offering CPUs with improved efficiency. But it was also about differentiating their product from competitors, by having a visibly-seamless unibody design. Personally, I'd much rather have a swappable battery that lasts 70% as long, but which I can easily swap and be back up and running within a minute. These days, it's not about serving the customer's needs as much as it is about looking flash, earning more sales from gullible followers of fashion, and maximizing likelihood of (perceived or actual) obsolescence.
As for SD card compatibility, the percentage of SD cards which present problems is absolutely miniscule, considering how many hundreds of millions of SD cards are sold and used each year. Just look at the pricing structure of the capacity tiers of Apple products, and you'll soon see they are ripping-off their customers for tiny capacity increases. Apple aren't afraid of people using SD cards, from a technical standpoint, they just want to ensure customers will keep upgrading and filling their corporate coffers.
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I've had an iphone 4 for 3 years. I don't feel screwed, but according to you I should.
You should have a chat with my mate, Jonathan. He's had
several iPhones (3s and 4s), which he uses for work and personal calls, and he's had misery with each and every one of them for their appalling battery life and impossiblity of quick-swapping the battery. I'm not making that up, either, I assure you. People keep saying to him that he should keep a charger handy,
which he does, and he's still scuppered, because the non-swappable battery loses capacity the more charge-discharge cycles it has been through.
This is the single biggest reason why whenever I buy a new handset, I always go for Samsung. The HTC One is arguably better than an S4, but because it lacks MicroSD card expansion, and swappable battery, I refuse to buy one.
At least iBasso have finally had the sense to stop this nonsense and start offering battery swappability in their DX50... They may have problems, but they'll also please many people for offering this option.
