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Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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264 points diwank | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.194s | source
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tommica ◴[15 Oct 24 16:09 UTC] No.41850050[source]▶
Looks really nice, wish could afford it, but Apple products are so expensive... Commodity products for premium price
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meroes ◴[15 Oct 24 16:21 UTC] No.41850180[source]▶
Many of these devices aren’t actually fungible commodities though.I tried to buy a phone in the $200 range and Android phones were so much worse than used iPhones. I they would drop calls and freeze on the dial pad during long calls where I was on hold. Tried two different models and had the same issues. I could have tried a used $200 Android but I was not wanting to try for a third Android. All I wanted/needed was to make important calls.

So I guess I don’t see them as commodities which implies fungibility.

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lucb1e ◴[15 Oct 24 22:25 UTC] No.41853768[source]▶
> All I wanted/needed was to make important calls.

Can I recommend you a 40€ phone? They've been making models that can do calls for a while now and they needn't cost as much as an Apple-branded device to do just that

> they would drop calls and freeze on the dial pad during long calls

Never heard that happen to anyone with any phone model. If you've ruled out some software-specific issue like a call recorder you've installed or so, that sounds borderline implausible. Then again, given the number of issues I experience with software (of any kind)...

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