A lot of companies are afraid of taking TOO big of a contract from Apple.
Apple has a habit of deciding to change and/or cancel contracts suddenly (and I'm sure they have an awesome team of lawyers to make it stick) after a manufacturer has dedicated an entire manufacturing line to making the (very specific) part for Apple.
I worked for a company that made parts for Apple about 5 years ago. Apple kept telling us to knock down the price or they'd cancel the contract. Eventually we were selling to them at a loss. For some reason our spineless management kept kowtowing to Apple and we went bankrupt. First thing the new management did after bankruptcy was to tell Apple we would never manufacture for them again.
Unfortunately we got sold to another company...who just signed a contract with Apple. But the parts we are making are not Apple exclusive, so we got that going for us, which is nice.
You are either young, stupid or a troll. Possibly all three.
I lived before the EPA and the clean air and water acts. I lived near many refineries and factories back in the 60's and 70's. The toxic crap that poured from the smokestacks and drain pipes of these places was horrible. Have you ever seen bright yellow toxic sludge draining directly into a bay? It is not pretty, especially with all the dead sea life floating in it. Cancer rates were astounding, respiratory illnesses were through the roof back in those days.
So you want to kill the EPA. Go ahead. I no longer live near those places, but you should move there and enjoy what you want. Raise your kids there! It's what your heroes want.
This happened in my company once. People kept replying to all, it was a clusterfuck and our company IT (in India, of course) couldn't figure out how to stop it.
So I set up an auto-reply mechanism that looked like it came from IT, it told anyone who replied "ALL" that they were now removed from all company mailing lists. Of course everyone freaked out and emailed IT when they would get my notice. IT was pissed at me, but I stopped people from replying to ALL any more.
So if I ever DON'T want to be tracked, I just leave the phone at home and commit my crimes. Law enforcement is so lazy they won't even think about actual detective work any more, they just find out who's phone was in the area.
Planned obsolescence is good for business if done right. It's like the recall formula from Fight Club.
If X phones need replacing before Y years have passed, and most users can be easily convinced to buy a new phone after Y years (Y is probably about 2), and the cost of replacing X phones is less than waiting Z years for people to buy a new phone, (Z = number of years it take people to replace a phone that has no real issues, so Z probably close to 4 or 5), then the "broken" phones are profitable to the company.
I didn't say it was good for consumers, but it can be good for business.
I still have to support NT4, XP, VxWorks, Win98 and even some networked DOS machines in our factory.
You don't go changing the OS on a piece of equipment that costs over a million bucks to replace and all the software for the equipment is written for that OS. You just keep supporting it. And when you have hundreds of machines that cost a shit-ton of money to replace but work fine with the old OS, you keep supporting it.
And you call the new employees a buncha goddamn whiners because they don't want to learn "old stuff."
Now if you citizens would only let us put microphones on you to record everything you say, and a body cam to record everything you do, and make all the data available to police, we'd all be safer!
Why do you hate safety? What are you doing behind closed doors? If you aren't guilty, you have nothing to worry about!
Say... your teen daughter might be a terrorist. We need to review her shower footage again.
If you have a phone cops cannot unlock, a reasonable jurist can assume that no one could have put any incriminating evidence on it to frame you, even if they could have.
If you have a phone anyone can use (no password) and you are separated from it at any time, you can bring up a very good reasonable doubt in court.
So just hang on to your phone and have no password. Don't put it on the table at restaurants, don't let it leave your person except at home, then you don't need a password. If it gets confiscated by cops, you have a very big out.
I loved the fact that there were x-ray machines and people with scanner wands at all major train and subway stations (and airports, of course). I soon realized that usually none of this equipment was even powered up, but they still ran the wand over you and your bags through the scanners anyway. I would purposely leave metal things in my pockets and the scanners never went off.
Autopilots CAN land, take off and deal with adverse weather...up to a point. But yeah, anyone idiotic enough to think that something called "autopilot" will deal with every situation is pretty stupid. Though we are talking about humans here, and overall they do tend to be kind of stupid.
Plus there are MANY of us who live in a non-served area. I can only get cell service at my house (where I have a cell booster) but the rest of my property has no service.
So if I want to listen to music while working on the ranch, I have to have it stored ON my phone, not in the damn cloud.
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Yeah, drugs need to be legal before I can be down with that...
A lot of companies are afraid of taking TOO big of a contract from Apple.
Apple has a habit of deciding to change and/or cancel contracts suddenly (and I'm sure they have an awesome team of lawyers to make it stick) after a manufacturer has dedicated an entire manufacturing line to making the (very specific) part for Apple.
I worked for a company that made parts for Apple about 5 years ago. Apple kept telling us to knock down the price or they'd cancel the contract. Eventually we were selling to them at a loss. For some reason our spineless management kept kowtowing to Apple and we went bankrupt. First thing the new management did after bankruptcy was to tell Apple we would never manufacture for them again.
Unfortunately we got sold to another company...who just signed a contract with Apple. But the parts we are making are not Apple exclusive, so we got that going for us, which is nice.
You are either young, stupid or a troll. Possibly all three.
I lived before the EPA and the clean air and water acts. I lived near many refineries and factories back in the 60's and 70's. The toxic crap that poured from the smokestacks and drain pipes of these places was horrible. Have you ever seen bright yellow toxic sludge draining directly into a bay? It is not pretty, especially with all the dead sea life floating in it. Cancer rates were astounding, respiratory illnesses were through the roof back in those days.
So you want to kill the EPA. Go ahead. I no longer live near those places, but you should move there and enjoy what you want. Raise your kids there! It's what your heroes want.
Idiot.
You know how I know you have never worked at a public school?
This happened in my company once. People kept replying to all, it was a clusterfuck and our company IT (in India, of course) couldn't figure out how to stop it.
So I set up an auto-reply mechanism that looked like it came from IT, it told anyone who replied "ALL" that they were now removed from all company mailing lists.
Of course everyone freaked out and emailed IT when they would get my notice. IT was pissed at me, but I stopped people from replying to ALL any more.
Ever been to Japan?
Most places, especially restaurants, don't take credit cards.
But many of the vending machines do take credit cards. It's a weird place.
I prefer to be tracked.
So if I ever DON'T want to be tracked, I just leave the phone at home and commit my crimes. Law enforcement is so lazy they won't even think about actual detective work any more, they just find out who's phone was in the area.
C-level motto: "Always have a patsy on hand."
I have had management try to make me into a patsy before. Always save your emails. Don't do anything unless you have it in writing.
"It took us a LOT of courage to remove the inferior 'Bluetooth' technology from the iPhone 9, but we did it, because we have courage.
Now you can connect with AppleTooth© technology! which is 15% faster than the original Bluetooth spec"
"AppleTooth headsets start at $379 for the base model."
I take it you have never worked with HCL.
We finally got rid of them at my company after the contract expired. Holy hell our IT went into the toilet when they were here.
To quote Bullwinkle J. Moose: "When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest!"
Yeah...who is Jones REALLY working for?
Wake up! Jones IS the false flag!
Planned obsolescence is good for business if done right. It's like the recall formula from Fight Club.
If X phones need replacing before Y years have passed, and most users can be easily convinced to buy a new phone after Y years (Y is probably about 2), and the cost of replacing X phones is less than waiting Z years for people to buy a new phone, (Z = number of years it take people to replace a phone that has no real issues, so Z probably close to 4 or 5), then the "broken" phones are profitable to the company.
I didn't say it was good for consumers, but it can be good for business.
You saw how well that worked out for the Luddites.
When I worked for the federal government in the 80's, I had to break federal laws every day just to get my job done.
It is not an efficient system.
Do those figures include fuel load? 80 litres of gasoline only weighs about 56Kg, but it is not light.
Yeah, I can still open my 2010 truck with a coat hanger, so I ain't to worried.
I still have to support NT4, XP, VxWorks, Win98 and even some networked DOS machines in our factory.
You don't go changing the OS on a piece of equipment that costs over a million bucks to replace and all the software for the equipment is written for that OS. You just keep supporting it. And when you have hundreds of machines that cost a shit-ton of money to replace but work fine with the old OS, you keep supporting it.
And you call the new employees a buncha goddamn whiners because they don't want to learn "old stuff."
Knowing old stuff makes you valuable.
Too late! I just threw all my books into the incinerator.
Wait, do people still have incinerators?
Now if you citizens would only let us put microphones on you to record everything you say, and a body cam to record everything you do, and make all the data available to police, we'd all be safer!
Why do you hate safety? What are you doing behind closed doors? If you aren't guilty, you have nothing to worry about!
Say... your teen daughter might be a terrorist. We need to review her shower footage again.
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Moral of the story is not to have a password.
If you have a phone cops cannot unlock, a reasonable jurist can assume that no one could have put any incriminating evidence on it to frame you, even if they could have.
If you have a phone anyone can use (no password) and you are separated from it at any time, you can bring up a very good reasonable doubt in court.
So just hang on to your phone and have no password. Don't put it on the table at restaurants, don't let it leave your person except at home, then you don't need a password. If it gets confiscated by cops, you have a very big out.
Ah, so you've been to China.
I loved the fact that there were x-ray machines and people with scanner wands at all major train and subway stations (and airports, of course). I soon realized that usually none of this equipment was even powered up, but they still ran the wand over you and your bags through the scanners anyway. I would purposely leave metal things in my pockets and the scanners never went off.
Autopilots CAN land, take off and deal with adverse weather...up to a point.
But yeah, anyone idiotic enough to think that something called "autopilot" will deal with every situation is pretty stupid. Though we are talking about humans here, and overall they do tend to be kind of stupid.
Plus there are MANY of us who live in a non-served area. I can only get cell service at my house (where I have a cell booster) but the rest of my property has no service.
So if I want to listen to music while working on the ranch, I have to have it stored ON my phone, not in the damn cloud.