Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

[N i g e l]

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51413724

[muzines]

I have the same take as John Gruber:-

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/ ... ance-apple

[Martin Walker]

I have the same take as John Gruber:-

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/ ... ance-apple

Yep, I saw this fact reported as fining Apple equivalent to just 55 minutes of their profits

Martin

[ManFromGlass]

It would be a great source of amusement if I was able to figure out what 55 minutes of my profits was.

[Watchmaker]

at least Jobs taught them meaningful ROI tactics. A shining example of Capitalism at its finest. <genuflects>

[Eddy Deegan]

Reminds me of something I saw a while back. I can't recall the exact wording, nor am I able to attribute it, but I'll paraphrase:

"Fines are a mechanism to make some laws optional for the rich".

[CS70]

Reminds me of something I saw a while back. I can't recall the exact wording, nor am I able to attribute it, but I'll paraphrase:

"Fines are a mechanism to make some laws optional for the rich".

Not just the rich It is a (now) well known effect that, contrary to intuition, trying to incentivize a behavior by putting a fine on the opposite one tends to backfire spectacularly..

Think it was in Freakonomics that the authors described how fining people for picking up children later at preschool ended up increasing the amount of late pick-ups rather than reducing it.

The way fines would work is to set 'em so disproportionate, that it'd become unacceptable in a non-authoritarian society.

The issue with Apple's hideous behaviors (not that they are the only ones) - such as designing for obsolescence and purposely creating not easily repairable designs, not to mention overpriced with respect to the functionality they offer - is not in the fact that they are rich.. is in the fact that load of people keep buyin' them nonetheless, making it rich.

[Drew Stephenson]

"You can't legislate for stupid."

P.S. for the avoidance of doubt, I don't really think all Apple customers are stupid (hence the smiley face), it just seemed an appropriate moment for a quote I rather like.