Apple... The Master of Overpriced Products

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Persian Vol

Persian Vol

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Have you guys seen the prices for the new MacBook Pros? They are disgustingly overpriced. Not to mention the specs are pretty average for the price and they are practically forcing you to buy dongles to hook anything up to the computer. You actually need to buy a separate 50 dollar adapter just to connect your iPhone to the new MacBook. What a load of garbage. Apple is seriously shooting themselves in the foot with these outrageous prices and ridiculous decisions to take away nessesary components in their technology.
 
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Persian Vol said:
Have you guys seen the prices for the new MacBook Pros? They are disgustingly overpriced. Not to mention the specs are pretty average for the price and they are practically forcing you to buy dongles to hook anything up to the computer. You actually need to buy a separate 50 dollar adapter just to connect your iPhone to the new MacBook. What a load of garbage. Apple is seriously shooting themselves in the foot with these outrageous prices and ridiculous decisions to take away nessesary components in their technology.
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People will pay for it and I hate those people
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
You all seem surprised by this. It is nothing new.
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They have always been overpriced, but this past year has been an abomination for Apple. Their decisions to take away features, drastically increase prices (for no legitimate reason), and their habit of forcing you into spending unnessary money on dongles is simply an insult to the consumers.

But what troubles me is the numerous people out there who are technologically illiterate, and still think buying into Apple products is actually a worthwhile investment.
 
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Guilty. I'm an Apple fan boy and am buying the pro soon
 
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Only company that's worse than Apple is Beats.

Monster Cable is pretty bad.
 
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Apple has a great business model. Come out with a new $1,000 phone once a year. Stop supporting products when they are about 4 years old. No iOS updates. No minor service like battery swaps. Yet the sheep line up every time a new product is released.
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
You all seem surprised by this. It is nothing new.
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This is very true! Apple has always been overpriced equipment. It was the same 15 years ago.

crusse10 said:
isn't Beats owned by Apple?
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Beats was it's own company up until last year I believe when Apple purchased them. HP used to install Beats in their laptops but they can't anymore and have switched to Bang and Olufsen.
 
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I'm an Apple guy and I'm not impressed with the new Pro.

I understand the push toward USB-C but to totally eliminate all the other ports is annoying. Not even an SD slot? Professional photographers are going to love that. This isnt new though, Apple was one of the first to drop the disc drive and for the most part I haven't missed it.

The new touch bar looked cool but ultimately seems like a gimmick. Jury is out on that one.

Having said that, I still prefer Mac OS to Windows all day long. And the seamless integration between products is still second to none.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Apple has a great business model. Come out with a new $1,000 phone once a year. Stop supporting products when they are about 4 years old. No iOS updates. No minor service like battery swaps. Yet the sheep line up every time a new product is released.
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Currently IOS updates go back 5 years to the iPhone 5, further than 99% of Android updates. Most people update their device in a 2-3 year cycle anyway. There are brand new Android devices that aren't even supported by the latest OS. Not sure what your point is there.

As for the coputers, Ive got a nearly 6 year old iMac that still gets Mac OS updates and I know they go back further than than.
 
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Beats is terrible as someone said. Probably a $20 product.

Bose is in the same category as Beats and Apple.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I'm an Apple guy and I'm not impressed with the new Pro.

I understand the push toward USB-C but to totally eliminate all the other ports is annoying. Not even an SD slot? Professional photographers are going to love that. This isnt new though, Apple was one of the first to drop the disc drive and for the most part I haven't missed it.

The new touch bar looked cool but ultimately seems like a gimmick. Jury is out on that one.

Having said that, I still prefer Mac OS to Windows all day long. And the seamless integration between products is still second to none.
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A lot of people are saying the new pro labtops are not even considered professional labtops for the most part.

1) They don't offer a 32 GB option, which is a deal breaker for some professionals.

2) Their entry level Pro labtops such as the 1500 dollar and 1800 dollar ones only come with 256 GB of storage, which is pitiful for a professional labtop. This isn't a college labtop (MacBook Air), this is for professionals. They even have a 2300 dollar option that only comes with 256 GB of storage. Lol are they for real?

3) Assuming you use your labtop for cpu intensive purposes, then you would ideally want at least 16 GB of ram, an I7, and at least 500 GB, of storage, preferably 1 TB. And the only option for that is the 2800 dollar 15 inch MacBook Pro. That is insanity. I have a desktop with a new I7, 16 GB of ram, 1 TB SSD, and a GTX 970, and that was about 700-800 dollars cheaper than that MacBook. Why would anyone spend 700-800 extra dollars on a worse computer? Surely OS X isn't worth that much money in its own right.

4) They talk about integration with other Apple products, yet you need to buy 50 dollar adapters just to hook up your new iPhone 7 and MacBook Pro together. Ridiculous.

5) I think people are too attached with OS X and their apple products. Apple obviously sees this and is essentially testing how much Apple users are willing to pay to not have to switch to PC. No real innovation, no real improvement in the quality of their products, but they are raising prices because they know their customers are too heavily invested in their platform.

This is why it is bad to be a fanboy people, you end up getting screwed.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Currently IOS updates go back 5 years to the iPhone 5, further than 99% of Android updates. Most people update their device in a 2-3 year cycle anyway. There are brand new Android devices that aren't even supported by the latest OS. Not sure what your point is there.

As for the coputers, Ive got a nearly 6 year old iMac that still gets Mac OS updates and I know they go back further than than.
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iPhone 4 was still being manufactured in 2013. The iOS updates were discontinued a year or more ago. You should be able to get what the point is there.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
iPhone 4 was still being manufactured in 2013. The iOS updates were discontinued a year or more ago. You should be able to get what the point is there.
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C'mon man, if you got an 8GB iPhone 4 in 2013 then you most likely got it for FREE and should have known it was near the end of its life cycle.

Again... brand new Andrpid devices dont even support the latest OS with no guarantee of ever getting it in some cases.
 
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