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From: spa...@nospam.com (Andy Burnelli)
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Subject: Re: Realistc (not ficticious) total cost of ownership calculation which is believable (not a sham)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:08:43 +0000
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by: Andy Burnelli - Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:08 UTC

nospam wrote:

>>>I charge mine (Pixel 4a) overnight. I don't know whether it's fast or
>>>slow; I just use the charger that came with it.
>>
>> Wait... a charger /came/ with it? Everyone on the Apple newsgroup is
>> telling us Google is following Apple's lead and skimping on chargers.
>
> the pixel 4a was released 2.5 years ago. at that time, chargers were
> almost always included.

Apple started this deplorable trend of lying about why they removed the
chargers, so in April 2021, when I got four free Androids, and one
half-price iPhone, the total cost of ownership of the iPhone is vastly
(overwhelmingly) greater than the total cost of all three of those Android
phones _combined_, nospam.

And then the Total Cost of Ownership for the iPhone got worse right away.
<https://i.postimg.cc/YC1B906F/tmopromo01.jpg> A32-5G & iPhone 12 contract
<https://i.postimg.cc/Xq5SpS4D/tmopromo02.jpg> $15/mo iPhone,$0/mo Android
<https://i.postimg.cc/L6dFGXVd/tmopromo03.jpg> $100 for 6 lines + $16 tax

I had to buy the proper PD charger for the half-priced iPhone, while each
of the three free Android phones (which, make no mistake about it, have
vastly more app functionality than any iPhone ever sold) came with the fast
charger.

Fancy that.

The total cost of ownership for a _single_ iPhone in a real world realistic
test is vastly more than the cost of _three_ Android devices, combined.

That's a real world example, nospam.
It's not fictitious like Steve's examples are.

Apple's strategy of inexorably removing "something" from the iPhone so as
to lay a glue trap that the customers have to buy their way out of hurts
the customer.

I'm a victim of Apple's strategy.
Just as much as badgolferman is.

I'm a victim of Apple's shameless public lies too.
As is badgolferman.

We're not fooled.
You are.

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