It would be nice if Lemmy, kbin, etc. could be a bit more balanced and not go into complete shitstorm mode each time something that relates to Elon Musk is mentioned.

I have added an update to my previous post. I think we just misunderstand each other.

Of course there are people believing all kinds of crazy shit, like the Earth being flat. I don’t see how that is relevant?

Von Braun was amazing.

Okay, trying to say it in another way: I don’t think many people thought SpaceX had much chance of success or becoming basically the #1 in the industry, far ahead of everyone else.

I don’t buy your sci-fi argument. Do people also think time travel will be possible?

I’ll try to formulate my comments better in the future - English isn’t my native language.

I don’t think others are much better if at all.

You're requesting something impossible for me, making it irrelevant. I also don’t make any claims about thinness. I’m just saying I think Apple with all their amazing engineers would be able to solve it.

I don’t know whether this requirement is generally relevant for most users, it might not be, but I think we should strive for devices that are as easy as possible to repair to give them a longer life. An iPhone have immensely capable hardware these days - the other bit is of course software support.

I don’t know what that includes, but I’d like expect the EU wouldn’t like it if it requires a lot of special tools.

Don’t be silly. You almost make it sound like the EU is a big evil monster. I honestly don’t see a push to make batteries easier to replace a bad thing. I also don’t think it would be hard for Apple to design their products with that feature in mind. Well, perhaps the AirPods, but certainly not the iPhone and if anyone have the skills to do it and the money too…I’d say it’s Apple. Apple of course don’t like to be restricted, they want to keep tight control over everything.

It does apply to all devices as far as I understand, this isn’t Apple specific at all.

Will take years before we get rid of Lightning here. The wife have an iPhone 13 mini and she’ll likely keep that until it dies.

I also don’t understand how anyone can be offended by this. Keeping YT running no doubt is quite expensive.

Well written 👍