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    1 year ago

    Defending a product by trying to upsell with accessories has got to be the most Apple thing

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      1 year ago

      I’d think of defending its accessories as things like; lightning/USB-C to 3.5mm jacks… which android phones also have.

      At this point, airtags are all but a product unto themselves, except that you need an iphone to use them. But they are an incredibly cool product, which I can’t use because I am not in the apple ecosystem (and haven’t been since shortly after Steve Jobs kicked the can).

      I could also point out that including LIDAR in their phones is cool, and has opened up new features and functions within various apps. You could also say that Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via satellite are “Killer Features” too.

      But with all that said, attacking people over their opinions is very much a fanboy thing to do.

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        1 year ago

        Okay, in all honesty I’m not trying to be hostile, but I get why it seems like I am. You may want to rethink the “product unto themselves except that you need” sentence. That’s straight not how language works.

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          1 year ago

          You should rethink how the “hostile” thing works, because that’s not how interpersonal relations work.

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          I believe it was originally to do with focus, and applying “Shallow depth of field” effects, aka blurry backgrounds.

          But now you can get cool features like, being able to scan things with your phone (for say 3d printing), but it’s far more accurate than anything else on the market.