If it’s a MacBook, you can just do it yourself. (Or if it wears out early due to a manufacturing defect, Apple will replace it for you for no cost in the first year of ownership, or the first three years if you bought AppleCare.)
If your iPad battery goes bad, they’ll send you an entirely new iPad if you’re under warranty. If you’re not, they’ll send you an entirely new iPad for $99. iPhones and iPods are similar except that I think they just replace the battery instead of the entire device if you send it in. There are also iFixit instructions out there for replacing your own iPhone/iPod battery which IMO don’t look too hard but probably aren’t for the casual user.
None of this was particularly difficult to Google, by the way, if you want to look it up for yourself. I’m posting from my phone and got tired of cutting and pasting links.
According to Apple, about 1000 charge/discharge cycles before you degrade to 80% of manufacturer’s specs. So about 3 years if you run down the battery every single day. Longer if you go longer between charges.
Well that’s not too bad. I can get about 3 years of service with heavy usage and instead of just replacing the battery, Apple will send me a brand new iPad. for $99. Sounds like a good deal
I chose “no, but I would consider it.” It’s pretty unlikely I’d buy one, though. (Technically, I used to use an Apple II when I was little, but that wasn’t specifically my computer.) I use an Android phone, and I don’t see what I could do on an iPad that I can’t do either on my computer or my phone. I have a Sansa brand iPod nano knockoff that was much cheaper than a real iPod, but Ke$ha’s songs are just as awesome on my cheap knockoff as they’d be on a real iPod.
I had a few ipods as gifts 8-10 years ago. One “classic” and a couple of “shuffles”.
Then in 2007 I switched to using Linux on my primary computer (and soon installed it on all my machines), so the ipod shuffles became bricks – following in the footsteps of the “batterygate” ipod generation 1 – due to the inability for them to act like the file storage devices they are.
Proprietary, platform-restricted software shouldn’t be required to manage files. Period. This was my first taste of the “you don’t really own what we just sold you, let us make the decisions” landlord-tenant relationship that is all the rage among the billion-dollar computer companies these days.
The digital world is fast becoming “real life” to a lot of people, with meat space just a place to rest your body while online. So take back control of your digital world by using and supporting free software and open, hackable hardware.
Even if you don’t hack, you’ll be better served when others are able to, the same way you’re better off that mechanics (or your gear head friends) can compete for your business instead of being beholden to the dealership for car repairs.
This poll would have made much more sense, if you had limited the ownership to a reasonable recent purchase. My ownership of a computer in the beginning of the 80’s has nothing to do with the company in recent years. Yep I haven’t bought Apple for 30 years. Does my Apple IIc have any relevance to current Apple products?
I suppose so, but it’s kind of late for that now. The good that’s come of it is the broadness of discussion we’ve seen thus far. There have been some that have mentioned owning older Apple products, and have also talked about how that relates to them today. I’d say that’s not a bad thing.
I don’t see a price listed. Is it safe to assume 3x the cost of a prebuilt PC with the same specs, and 5x the cost of the same PC assembled from parts?
Yes, but that’s counteracted by the reduced functionality. No, wait…
If it’s not obvious, I voted no, and never will. Whilst I can see the use of their devices for people who don’t want to learn how to use and optimise Windows or Android, I enjoy doing that, and I’d hate to pay more and get less. Unless Apple come out with a gadget that exactly matches what I want, at a cheaper price than the alternatives, there’s no reason to buy one.
yes. Reminds me of the old MIPS workstations SGI used to sell. Interesting design but completely non-standard form factors so if you ever dare to upgrade anything ya’d better open up your wallet.
The good that’s come of it is the broadness of discussion we’ve seen thus far. There have been some that have mentioned owning older Apple products, and have also talked about how that relates to them today. I’d say that’s not a bad thing.