Hang on, renaming my homepod to “Vintage Jukebox”

Allegedly.

There’s a few YouTube channels (I don’t have them on hand) where the creators make videos of them using old style tools and methods to move massive materials just by exploiting leverage. It might be of interest to you if you Google it.

Who’s gonna stop them? The anti corruption police? Sounds like another person that just needs bought off, and when you’re exploiting so many that isn’t a hard ask…

Idk, generally when a company tries a subscription server /this/ cheeky, they at least provide quality maintenance since margins are so batshit insane anyway. Then again enshitification has been basically coined in the last year or so… Maybe I’m just too optimistic

It rolls downhill from here unfortunately. :(

I don’t think Apple cares about the rest of the market tbh. The walled garden they’ve created has allowed them to sort of go 🤷‍♂️. I imagine it’s more just a cost savings measure allowing them to sell more of the backstocked m1s/etc and save money on re-engineering/tooling. Not a whole lot of people buying the mini who are unhappy with its performance.

🤔 what kind of messed up take… Dude it’s just a textile material. Tim isn’t out here hand researching and selecting materials for everything. He’s making business decisions and trusting his team to handle their decisions and doing so has placed Apple in a very dominant position in the market with a extremely tightly integrated verticle production and software stack. Market share across the board is up and so is user satisfaction. I’ll take him over a “creative” that wants to “innovate” my experience which would most certainly cause massive shifts in technological infrastructure I rely on.

Capitalism working as intended. He just said the quiet part out loud.