People are really close-minded.
The reactions to the iPod in 2001:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.500/
>>61824202
Boy! Macrumors sure suck Apple cock.
People have been claiming Apple doesn't know what they are doing for every single product they came out with.
>ipod is too expensive
>omg the s3 is going to be better than iPhone
>ipad is just a big iphone
>look at the iphone 6 design
>omg no headphone jack its over
>>61824289
the headphone jack one is fairly legitimate. It's just to satisfy their thin fetish.
>>61824289
>People are really close-minded.
You mean Apple consumers. Apple survives because people buy their shit without considering alternative products. Apple knows their consumers are like this, so they jack up the price, and their consumers buy it anyway, and then itoddlers get an excuse to say
>hurr you cant afford apple because youre poor!
That's why Apple isn't dead. They live because people, especially their consumers, are sheep.
>>61824778
>Apple survives because people buy their shit without considering alternative products.
Sure. That's why Apple's market share increases. The same static number of people increases.
Cognative dissonance.
>>61824202
Tim, please stop jack off thinking on steve
>>61825246
Fanboys helps Apple to crossing the chasm
>>61824686
>It's just to satisfy their thin fetish.
No it isn't. It's probably loosely related to enhanced waterproofing and making room for the Taptic engine.
The primary reason probably has to do with DRM since Lightning is a digital only standard.