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Report: Apple to remove the entire case and screen from 2022 iPhones

And people still wonder why many have moved to hackintosh (computer-wise...)
Phone-wise? I could essentially zero ****s... Apple's irrelevant in that arena AFAIC.

Even though many may disagree... The moral of the story for me is that Apple is in the midst of a huge mistake-making phase. Even more silly is that it seems pretty obvious that Apple's essentially oblivious to it, despite it being pretty substantial for a lot of people on this forum...
 
But then I can't sync my notes, calendar etc. etc. with my desktop iPad etc. That's the beauty of the Apple ecosystem, effortless exchange...
Google syncs across devices effortlessly...Problem solved... Granted Google's less ethical with your data; that said, give me some hard evidence of just how measurably more-ethical Apple is compared to Google... (Personally I'm skeptical Apple are the angels they position themselves to be...) That said Google aren't the only alternative... FF syncs across devices as well... Very much doubt the competition stops there... Devices tend to be pretty universally good about being cross compatible these days...

Apple have been brilliant about marketing themselves to Apple users about them being this concerned/compassionate/ethical overlord. In reality they don't really bring anything all that ground-breaking once you strip away the physical device...

Yes the hardware has tight security... But unless you live in a universe that resembles Mr Robot, where multinational hackers are fighting to get ahold of your measly, value-less data; once you leave the device and move to the web, security is a universal concern...
 
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Apple syncs with Apple really well I've heard but iPhones refuse to talk to anything else. Managing one with a PC sucks. Apple products in general refuse to talk to non apple stuff.
 
Apple syncs with Apple really well I've heard but iPhones refuse to talk to anything else. Managing one with a PC sucks. Apple products in general refuse to talk to non apple stuff.

I use my iPhone with non-Apple calendar, notes and reminder services and sync with a PC, all without issue.
 
If you don’t find the Apple ecosystem appealing then you don’t get it. That’s fine. Respect other people’s preference and move on. Or rehash the same old arguments over and over if that’s your thing..

Concrete evidence needed for this security debate? Look at Googles core business model and compare to Apple. Clear as day who your future is more secure with if you are a betting man. Not to get into technical implementations of software but the approach is quite different as well where one company monetizes you’re information and the other anonymizes where possible.
 
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Still on iPhone 6. I actually like the new ones less.

They keep fixing stuff that isn't broken.

I've just jumped to a PC laptop for the first time. Razor Blade 64gb 2TB - lots of ports and the keyboard isn't bollocks. The change wasn't as hard as I was worried it would be and it cost me less than 2k

(All my desktop stuff is still Apple though...)

I still yearn for OSX though.
 
I use my iPhone and iPad with an iMac. Sync is the worst. It often takes 20 minutes if I want to push a song to the iPhone or iPad because sync hangs on doing a backup first, even if I did a backup 5 minutes ago. Calendar and Notes sync though are still magically good at this point.
 
Loving my SE. It broke earlier this year, would have cost £260 to repair so I bought a new one. Nothing they currently have comes close - it's small, fast and has a headphone jack.

I had a vague idea that they were sort of learning with the new MacBook Pro where they effectively said "ok, we screwed up". It still didn't have any regular USB or SD ports though, so my 2015 one is superior. 2015/2016 was a golden era, its been downhill ever since.
 
It's a rumour, from a notoriously inconsistent 'analyst' whose job is to churn stocks. Will it happen eventually? Of course. All personal electro doo-dads will be completely wireless at some point. Apple likes to move to where the puck is going, not where it is. There will always be choices.
 
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