wildkitten :
Actually I am not bashing any corporation. I think neither Apple or Samsung or any other company is in any way wrong for trying to make a better product. Sometimes making a product better means accessories for a different product may not work.
And let's be honest, very rarely do we buy accessories for one thing and expect them to work for something else. The fact that you point to this as greed is ignorance run amuck. The fact is Apple can't win with the mindless bashers. Some bash them for making the screens too small, but they make a bigger screen and get bashed because it's not backward compatible with previous accessories. It's a no win situation.
And when did this mindset come in that somehow someone's older iPhone won't work? I have an older phone that while I no longer use as a phone, it still makes a great music player, GPS, etc and all the accessories I bought for it amazingly still work with it. Never once have I bought product Y and expected accessories I bought for product X to work with it.
And you're flaming corporations as a whole for this type of thing is also quite ignorant. No one can advance anything while making everything backward compatible. If companies tried not to appear greedy to you, cell phones would still have to be carried around in bags, or worse, installed in cars, so all the accessories would still be compatible.
The fact is, when you buy a new product, a reasonable person expects to buy some sort of accessory for it. Should all laptops be the same size, have all the ports in the same places just so you don't have to go out and buy a new laptop cooler and a new case or new accessories?
The fact is, no one is forced to buy the iPhone or any other phone. And those that do do so knowing full well what they have to expect. If someone doesn't want to buy a new case for $10 they certainly aren't going to buy the phone in the first place. And you have no right to tell people how to spend their money.
Are you struggling to find ways to insult my intellect over corporate greed? Sure seems like you are
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Lets face it, when you buy a graphics card for your desktop you don't expect to have to buy a whole new motherboard just to be able to use the graphics card due to differentiations in slots unless there has been a major overhaul of the design of the graphics cards. The only problem you would encounter is lack of power from psu or lack of space from case but with the way things are going right now I am able to fit more cards in smaller spaces for less power. Obviously they know what they are doing and implemented it properly.
If desktops have it so easy when it comes to universal fittings, why is it so hard to do that with a phone? Why should I not be allowed to tell the world how it is when corporations try to milk every last cent they can from you before inevitably going bankrupt.
Why should Home Audio all use the same receiver outputs and inputs when everyone can be unique and fun and make you spend more than you really need or make things incompatible just for the sake of making money.
Phones are a prime example of greed in corporations and if you don't think so that is your error of thinking, not mine.
So before you go around flaming people for being "unintelligent" or "ignorant" perhaps you should remove the veil from your own eyes.
Why have desktop computers been able to do so right for so long what cellphone makes haven't been able to do ever besides micro hdmi ports and mic jacks.
Here goes a little information for you since you don't know,
A prime way to keep the consumer base feeding you money is to force them to have to buy new "accessories" every time they buy a new phone.
The majority of uneducated cellphone buyers will not care because there isn't anything they can do about it besides care or not care because it is not our decision but their choice.
Computer component manufacturers came to the realization that they didn't need to reinvent the wheel to be able to sell products and that it was in their best intrest to keep the wheel the same to make sure everyone is able to easily improve/change components without a sweat or tear.
Then you look at Apple.
Time and time again have they shown their true colors to the consumers and time and time again the consumers either forget or just stop caring. Which is why apple's closed source based systems have been alive for as long as they have.
Steve Jobs admitted himself that he didn't need to invent a wheel to be able to claim it as his own which is what he did with xerox.
So you have a product born from a company known for stealing tech and ideas claiming them as their own subjectifing their consumer base to these arbitrary views of designing products and working together with others to play nice for the consumers.
Yes you have to buy a new phone case to fit your phone because phones are not a universal shape.
Yes you can replace your SD card if the phone has an expansion bay.
Yes you can replace the power cable if the phone is made by a half decent manufacturer. E.G. 3 of my friends and my brother have phones of all shapes n sizes and they all still use the same power cable.
Obviously things can stay the same while others change but all I have to say is form after function.
If your phone that you produced cannot function in the same means as your phone from the previous model that says one of two things, either 1. You are required to update the external components due to the new and improved power delivery system or 2. They just want to make you buy new things to go with your new phone.
Regardless.
There are phones that match chargers. EG Motorola and HTC.
They have been doing it for years and continue to do it.
So why does the apple charger have to be unqiue to the apple phone? Because they always find a way to milk the consumers from all walks of life of their cash, if its not in service overcharges for false data reports or convincing them that the new phone is better than the last so they should upgrade or forcing them to buy new accessories to fit their phone.
If companys have been doing it for years without a hitch, why cant apple join the party? Closed source.
You can call me ignorant all you want and you can flame my intelligence however you like, that won't ever make you right.
Don't even get me started on the MBP and its super glued SSD and soldered ram.
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