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Yeah, it sucks. To be fair, I hated their keyboards before and after the butterfly keyboard nonsense, I much prefer the deeper keyboard travel of my Thinkpad.
Eh, I think that's overblown. I have a 2019 Intel Mac for work, and nobody in my office has had that problem, and we've all had our laptops for 3-4 years. Our company replacement cycle is 4 years, and it's looking like I'm not going to have that problem at all.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm just saying that I haven't experienced it in our work setting. I certainly wouldn't buy one for my personal computer because I expect more than 4 years of life from it (I'm typing this on my E495 from 5 years ago, and I plan to keep it for a couple more years).
What does that have to do with their laptops? Same with the iPad.
My coworkers have M-series laptops for work, and they're way nicer than my Intel mac in terms of performance (>4x faster running our test suite and building Docker containers), battery life, and other features (they have the magnetic power port again). I'd never buy one because it doesn't run Linux properly and I hate the Apple ecosystem, but the M-series chips are quite nice.
Absolutely agreed. I've seen plenty of videos by Louis Rossmann about it, so I absolutely know it's an issue. However, he made the claim that it still isn't fixed in later models, so I'm going on the assumption that mine is affected, I just haven't triggered it (probably because we don't open and close the laptop lid very often).
I thought the "ecosystem" was the software suite, not hardware. So things like iMessage and iCloud working seamlessly between devices.
Honestly, being a "fan" of any company is stupid. I can't really think of a single company that I'd protect bad decisions from, except maybe Valve because they have such a long track-record of not sucking, and they're pretty much the only company that directly makes my life better on my Linux systems.
My understanding is that they committed to 10 years of support for the lightning connector, which was released before USB-C became a thing. I can't find a source for that, but it lines up pretty well with the timing of things (introduced in 2012, replaced around 2023), and I wouldn't be surprised if they made a deal like that.
There's more to it than just the cables, there's all of the companies that integrate with their phones. There are a ton of accessories for iPhone, and they probably have contractual obligations to maintain compatibility for some amount of time.