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[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 202 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I thought this was about a cereal for a hot second.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love Apple Jacks. I haven’t had them in years.

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why don't they taste like apples!? (⁠ノ⁠ಠ⁠益⁠ಠ⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait until you hear about Grape Nuts.

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[–] Soundhole@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

They taste like jack instead.

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[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple Jacks are my number two, only behind Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Also, number two, behind. Heh.

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[–] Cephirux@lemmings.world 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please vote with your money. Don't waste money and buy overpriced stuff and certainly don't support this kind of business practice. And fuck the shareholders too. If they want money, then work like most people.

[–] burliman@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Already do. Used to buy new phone every year. Now it’s every three years or so. That is completely due to price and lack of compelling innovation. Don’t care if shareholders make money or not. I just like good value.

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[–] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I read Apple Jack's like the cereal and was confused

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was the point. There are several turns of phrase in the headline.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, I was like, "Who the fuck would get a cereal subscription for Apple Jacks?"

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That is the thing with for profit companies, especially publicly traded ones. No matter how much they make, it is never enough. Next quarter must always be higher than this quarter or the world is on fire and heads will roll.

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"our company only made 19 billion, we expected to make 19.1 billion, we are not sure how we are going to survive this"

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better fire 50000 people ASAP

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Infinite growth.

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[–] Un4@lemm.ee 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do not understand all the rage, Apple does not provide any vital services or products. They can charge anything they want. If you don't like it then don't buy it.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

but you still lock yourself in their offer space when you also bought devices that kind of depend on those services: music streaming for the homepod, fitness+ for watch, cloud storage for iphone photos...

every time you switch from apple to a third party, it's ever so slightly less convenient, and they probably conceive their products around that notion.

[–] offbyone@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

Yes you have to decide if the cost of the convenience is worth the lock in and price of Apple products. At the end of the day you still have a choice.

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[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's always been trendy to rage at Apple and Apple owners. This is just the current rage.

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[–] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I read the title 3 times before I realized it's not about cereal

[–] woobie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I am so happy that I'm not the only one that thought Apple Jacks were vastly more profitable than I had expected.

[–] maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honey smacks other coupon purveyors for substandard grifting.

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are epitome of passive aggressive capitalism. “Will keep doin unethical shit til they make a law not to and even then you have to sue me to make me stop”

It’s nestle’s MO.

[–] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I had to read the title several times before I understood that the article isn't about Apple Jacks, the cereal.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also I didn't know Apple Jacks made juice profits, since when do they make juice?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The solution is simple: Don't participate in the Church of Steve Jobs, don't turn yourself into an Apple disciple (and apologist).

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I can get the TV+ hike. I don’t like it, but I get it. When TV+ launched it had very little content and no one was going to pay for that little content unless it was cheap. But now there is a pretty good library of new stuff, and it’s usually of better quality than what’s floating around on HBO.

Arcade price hikes - now that seems like a good reason to cancel Arcade. If they’re going to add better games that take advantage of the new fast processors, I can understand console tier pricing. But the games still mostly feel like mobile games. And not mobile as in “Nintendo Switch,” mobile as in “flappy bird.”

[–] nezbyte@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For All Mankind S4 comes out next month!!!

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to abolish public trading, or at least vastly overhaul what it means to invest in a company

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Minimum investment times and mandatory profit sharing might help.

Make investors consider long-term and create income for shareholders from all profitable companies.

Right now a company can lose money while making shareholders rich, or make money while making shareholders poor. This is stupid.

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[–] TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

They are just mad that they lost to "right to repair" in California so they are throwing a "fuck em we will charge them double then" tantrum.

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[–] LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will never be enough. That's the model of capitalism.

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[–] Mafflez@reddthat.com 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And why would I want an apple anything? They get cheap labor so....what the investors want more money? Never had an iPhone or apple product never will.

[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago

Hate to burst your bubble on that one, but all of the latest and greatest phones are made by cheap labour these days. Apple uses China and India, Samsung uses Vietnam, Google uses China and Vietnam with some assembly in the US.

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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did any of the Foxconn workers that have to live in company dorms for slave wages get a raise?

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Why are consumers so dumb?

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[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

Dang. That zany Kellogg’s cereal that the cool frog sells makes $19 billion a year 😳

[–] oxjox@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve been an Apple loyalist since 1993. Practically everything I’ve loved about the company has gone to shit in the past few years. It used to be inspirational, seamless, intuitive. Now every new OS update makes something needlessly complex and confusing.
On top of that, they’re increasing prices for their services. I genuinely love Apple TV+ and still think with the increase that it’s an incredible deal. Still, they can suck a dick if they think I’m falling prey to this annual price increase bullshit. Apple stopped being an industry leader under Cook and became a basic vanilla consumer electronics and digital services company. It’s fucking disappointing.
What’s worse, they still do most things better than the competition so there’s little to do but hope things don’t break and disable auto updates. I have nearly every product category they put out but as things start to fail, I will not be replacing them. Instead, I’ll simply choose a more simple life without excessive tech.

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apple doesn't make any kind of necessity. Every single one of their products is completely optional in life and has alternatives.

If people are willing to pay for it, whatever. It's a luxury. It's not medicine or housing.

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[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I find fanboyism pretty much a naïve attitude to have. These are large companies that only have one aim in mind, and that is to make as much money as they can out of you. That is not the same as buying into an infrastructure that gives you a comfort zone. All phone companies strife to push people into that comfort zone, where they do not want to change. On that I am guilty as charged.

All in all you spend your money where you feel happier about it. If Apple want to out price their products then people will find alternatives. I never understand this culture of griefing people for having differing comfort zones. There seems to be a lot more emphasis on calling out people buying a bad deal, rather than just educating people on where the good deals are to be had.

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[–] bemenaker@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

wall street hungry, feed me

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, but what if company was worth four trillion.

In any case, dollar down, prices up.

[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

News+ was worthless and they dropped the one show I gave a shit about because Jon Stewart wasn't towing the line for Chinese propaganda. This was easy to not give a fuck about already, and they are making it even easier.

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