Yet, EDIT: (the majority of) everyone here probably keeps buying stuff from Apple. With that, revenue climbs as well as the price for a share of Apple stock. How many here blame the CEO of General Motors, Sony, GE when they don’t
like the design or functionality of their vehicle, TV, dishwasher, washer/dryer? How many know the political views of the CEOs of everything you buy?
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I used to, but have now stopped. I have a £0.99 subscription, that’s all and my latest phone is a Pixel.
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You’re probably in the minority as far as members of this forum. But, that’s how you change a companies behaviors. Googles not innocent either.
The buck stops with the CEO. They are ultimately responsible for the company’s priorities, its values, and its allocation of resources.
I may not know the personal political views of a company’s CEO, but I do pay attention to where a major corporation’s political donations and lobbying dollars go. It matters to me. Your mileage may vary.
Yes, I buy stuff from Apple. I nonetheless dislike the company’s insistence on cluttering up its apps with entreaties to buy or subscribe to something.
I don’t find my Apple eco system is enshitified.
Perhaps I’m using it wrong?
(I have turned off the transparency option using accessibility settings, and that made it all feel a bit more old school.)
I don’t see that kind of stuff.
Or, at least I don’t think I do.
Are you thinking of pages etc with the subscriptions?
Primarily apps like Books and Music—i.e., anything that’s a platform for delivering content. The launch screen for my iPhone’s Settings app insists on reminding me that I have a free trial available for some service or other that Apple sells.
I’ve deleted Pages, Numbers, and Keychain so I’ve been spared whatever is going on over there.
I fully expect Apple to find some way to build paid tiers into Apple Intelligence and New Siri.
I can assure you that the subscription buttons and features of the new Pages, Numbers and Keynote are easily hidden if you don’t subscribe. It’s not the end of the world for them.
I actually don’t use Pages, Numbers, or Keynote, which is why I deleted them. But it’s good to know that you can turn off the subscription features if you don’t need them!
Oh, I don’t use books, and I rarely use music. that makes sense.
True. But I would probably still be using my iPhone 11 if Apple had told the truth about “Apple Intelligence”. So I plan to keep my iPhone 16P, M2 iPad Air, and M4 MBA for as long as possible, then replace them with the best, IMO, devices that are available at that time. And they may not be from Apple.
If you were used to Sony making amazing products and they were slowly getting worse and you were hanging out in a Sony-focused forum… you’d be complaining.
The worst one for me at the moment is when playing a casual Patience game from Apple Arcade — you know that service one pays for that is not beset by ugly advertising — and when I start the game and get the inevitable “Game Centre login” bubbles, they now include adverts for other games!
Only now I discovered, in my disgust, that you can actually swipe those bubbles away. But advertising someone’s game inside someone else’s game? That’s nuts.
Thanks to the continued growth of services, the percent of revenue from the Mac and iPad continues to shrink. In the most recent quarter they each contributed 6% to the total. I guess they were right to drop Computer from the company name in ‘07.
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It’s not about how you use the system, it’s about the system itself. This of course, does depend on how long you’ve been using them to see it. I’ve been an Apple user since 2007. Here’s how I see the enshittification. Apple went from making tools for users, to making products for subscribers, to now making software for stockholders. The users are now nowhere in view, nor are the developers in Apple’s decision-making process. This leads to a quality decay over time for the user.
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No, I’d be out looking for a better product from a competitor.
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One of the reasons I like using the iWork suite is that you can customize the toolbar (unlike the monstrosity that is Microsoft office) to just the tools you use. That hasn’t changed with “AI tools”
How many people know the name of the CEO of GM or Sony? Only those who follow those companies.
And what parts of the system you’re exposed to.
My PowerBeats Pro were paired to my Mac this morning. I saw a call come in on my phone, forgot they were on my Mac, and pressed the button to answer. My Mac launched Apple Music. It can be disabled via a convoluted 3rd-party app (GitHub - tombonez/noTunes: A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching. · GitHub), but…why isn’t that a setting in Music/System Settings somewhere?
I heard the other day that some people were swapping Google Maps for the default map app on iOS. Went into settings, found the section for default apps, then discovered that because I’m in the United States the setting doesn’t exist. This is a pretty reasonable thing to want to swap out.
Same for web browsers. In the US, all mobile apps still have to use Webkit. There are carve-outs for Japan and the EU.
Went into Settings on my iPhone to look at some Powerbeats settings, and I see a link prompting me to “Add AppleCare Coverage” to the device that already has it. Clicked it to see why, and it wants me to subscribe to Apple One.
On the main Settings screen, it’s prompting me to redeem 3 free months of Apple Music for some reason or another. I clicked, and I’m not eligible because I had it previously. Why is the option even there?
It’s not a massive “OMG this completely sucks to use” thing, but there’s enough little stuff that’s irritating that I run into something ridiculous multiple times per week.
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We can blame Jack Welch (GE) for a lot of things before we get to the consumer products 
and to be fair after 2008 I look at any CEO of General Motors with suspicion.