You know , the Macalope hates to complain …
Okay , okay , settle down , settle down .
That was a phony spitting - take , by the means . Not believing that for a second .
Anyway , Apple hitting a $ 3 trillion valuation again has gotten the Macalope thinking . For the most worthful troupe in the history of poppycock in general , does it ever hit you that it ’s sometimes a bit … stingy ?
Of course , you do n’t get to be the richest and most valuable party evah by spend wildly . God know the Macalope ’s tried . But once youarethe richest and most valuable , does it not seem like maybe you could get to the purse strings a fiddling in sealed billet ?
In the last few year , Apple ’s trouble with its retail labor force-out have been in the news and Apple has gone togreat lengthsto permit its doer get it on it would choose they not unionise .
Just short of actual kidnapping and interpretation .
As far as we know .
likewise , the company seems loath to give up much on the App Store front . While it has improved thing slightly since its debut 15 years ago – most notablyreducing the cut for many developer from 30 percent to 15starting back in 2021 – it still arrive at a pretty sweet margin for allowing developers ’ apps to come along on the stock , often under ads for other developers apps . Ads that those developers paid Apple for .
“ Give us 15 percentage of the baseball swing and , oh , we ’re plump to let your competitors pay us to look above you , unless … you’dlike to pay off us to appear above your own app ? Could do . Just sayin ’ . ”
It ’s a real get ‘ em coming and run kind of setup .
Those are interrogative sentence of Apple ’s operations , though . The average substance abuser does n’t care how much Apple retail employees make or what cut App Store developers set out . They should , but they do n’t .
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The companionship famously does not skimp on build its products . It mostly passes that cost on to the user , but it strives for a premium user experience . Which is great ! Who does n’t screw a premium user experience ?
People still on Twitter ? Okay , fair . The Macalope does n’t get that , either .
What is peculiarly dumbfound is when Apple ’s stinginess affects the exploiter experience .
The Macalope ran into a weird queerness last descent when he traded in his iPhone 12 mini for an iPhone 13 mini . Apple Care still covered the twist he was trade in , but as he was switch it in to Apple , he did n’t think about it . later on he did and , sure enough , Apple had commit him for several months of Apple Care on a headphone he no longer had . Apple had it . When he asked for a repayment for the months when he no longer had the earpiece , he was given the polite client - forward version of a lumbering suspiration and secernate that was not standard operate procedure but , if he require , he could speak to a specialist who would endeavor to make him sense bad for requesting the repayment before grudgingly yield it after sound like he had to zigzag several ill - oiled wheels and intonate an conjuration to the Old Ones in a proscribed tongue to get it to go through .
Yes , please , I would , thank you very much .
The geared wheel crank , the intonation done , a puff of smoke went up and the repayment was given . As was an admonition – and this is not a trick – that this was a one - prison term affordance and it should not be expected again in the future .
Sure , perhaps the Macalope should have think back that the equipment was still covered earlier buthe was trading it in to Apple . The serial number was on the trade wind - in accord . They had the actual equipment . If he had been sell it to a third company , of class that would have been the Macalope ’s fault . But it seems like a premium substance abuser experience would have handled that low bit instead of think the Macalope would just desire to donate money to a $ 3 trillion business organisation .
Another example is iCloud storage . iCloud comes with a whopping 5 GB of depot for free . Wheeee . For comparison , Google gives you three times that much reposition for free . Amazon start off with the same amount as Apple for free but consecrate you more storage per clam than Apple on pay up tiers .
Simply compare to the competition is n’t the level , though . The Macalope is not suggesting Apple give away gobs of blank for no reason . I mean , he ’d take it . But he ’s not suggesting that . Abundant online storage is a premium feature film and should command a requisite price .
What should not be a premium feature isbacking up your iPhone .
take the air into an Apple Store with a dead iPhone and the first thing the employee ( refreshed from their interrogation sitting about any unionizing proclivity ) will ask if you have a backup . Unless you ’re backing up an original 4 GB iPhone 1 , then you in all likelihood do n’t if you on the devoid iCloud level .
Yes , you’re able to back up to a Mac . Like an animal . That also presume you have enough storage on your Mac , which Apple is not exactly giving away either .
count , it ’s 2023 . If you buy an iPhone , backing it up should be included . That ’s all . But it ’s not too much to ask from a company that ’s doing jolly okay , give thanks you very much .
No one expects Apple to give away the $ 3 trillion farm . But Microsoft has a better position toward unions , Apple providesa deal of lip serviceto how the App Store is where “ a trust position where developers and users could come together in a two - sided transaction ” while slipping its paw into both pockets , and its user experience could be even estimable … all if it just did n’t make quite as much .
It ’s in all likelihood not going to happen , but a mythical creature can dream .
