Right on. I certainly am not going to bat for any of these companies, especially ethically. You don't become a giant business like that without stepping on a neck or two. I'm not thrilled with Apples "planned obsolescence" or whatever it is.

Just giving my experience.
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I think the idea of planned obsolesce is a bit overstated. Batteries wear out, whether it's Apple, Android, or whatever. Depending on how often they are charged, it's not uncommon to have them fail in as little as 3 years. On the other hand, I have an iPhone 6s that still runs great because the battery is still good. I also have a 2011 iMac that runs as well as it did when it comes out of the box. Not many PC's are still useable 9 years after release.

The issue you're probably referring to with Apple is that they implemented a solution without disclosing to the consumer. It's actually not a bad idea - as batteries die, the voltage level decreases. If a CPU is under-powered, it can crash. Apple decided to throttle CPU power usage, slowing it down, instead of just letting it die. If they would have told the consumer what they did, it probably would have been a non-issue. I certainly feel it's better than the Android solution, which is to do nothing at all. My daughter recently had to replace a 3-year old Samsung because the battery started to die and her phone would just randomly reboot.
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My issue with it is that they don’t let me shut it off.

My phone is pretty vital to my job. And I lean hard on it because I can access stuff quickly. Weather, markets, a few spreadsheets I’m in and out of a lot, and then if I’m in a machine streaming something. Don’t throttle my machine without me being able to go back. I have chargers everywhere. I don’t give too much of a fuck about batteries because I a 20 hour day, new out of the box batteries aren’t lasting all day. I don’t start looking until it won’t go 4 hours.

Don’t create software problems to prevent hardware problems. If it gives me problems, fine. I’ll deal with them as they come. But don’t treat me like a grandma that takes 4 seconds to figure out which button to push. I lean hard on it being quick so I don’t have to commit productive time to administration later. But if it’s going to run slow that limits my capacity to do those things in a spare second.

That being said, I still use Apple.
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RE: Android.

I haven’t had an android machine in 5 years or so and even then it was junk unless you were going to just use it for Netflix or something stupid.

Both my parents have them and I’m not thrilled with them whenever I try to help them with something. My brother is a fanboy, I just don’t see it. But I’m not a fanboy of much. These pieces of shit are merely a tool for my productivity (and some CP viewing:-))
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That's why I got out... Apple is a Nazi group like none other, so after my first iPhone and MacBook I decided to divest my life from the spendy lock-down world.

As for Cisco, being a network engineer by trade, I've learned to really dislike the post-1995 Cisco. They are a shadow of the company that they once were IMO.
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That spendy lock-down world is more secure and stable that their competitors. :-)

In all seriousness though, they all have their niche and all have them have some fairly significant flaws as companies as well, so it really only comes down to personal preference.

Yep. There's a real sense of entitlement in their presales guys especially.
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