Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 10, 2021

You will also have to get new memories.

Dumping Rat wouldn’t be a bad idea though.

Harsh.

I just got a new iMac, and now I’ve got lots of new friends at the Genius Bar at the Apple Store.

all these devices…

My flip phone loves me just the way I am.

I’m typing this on a Macbook Pro. But we own not even one other Apple® item. And there’s a reason for that…

PS: MacOS is a “user friendly” version of the Unix OS, which is what I cut my teeth on. When I’m not using the browser (Firefox) or email tool (Thunderbird) I spend most of my time at the command line (yes, on purpose) or the editor (Emacs). Or less often, one of the tools from LibreOffice. There’s a high probability that my next laptop will be a lightweight, high-power Windoze machine with some linux distro as the only OS.

It’s sad, but I only have a flip phone, and I finally want to get a smart phone, because my doctors and my cat’s vet won’t do anything for me because I don’t have a smart phone.

Toodles, Goat. Can’t say it’s been “nice” knowing you, but it’s been interesting.

iStuff before all else! Worship the almighty Apple!

Pig knows Bob Hope.

i suppose if you want iPhone to rule your life …

And you must get new kidneys too.

Pig must be filthy rich to affords a iPhone.

one of them being not Apple, but a less “greedy” company that being a "relative " term, e.g., if you got a cuz named Tim Cook clause and cause in your hefty purchase.

Easy, I don’t have any friends. (I also don’t do Apple.)

New friends supplied by Apple, I presume?

i beg to disagree – we upgraded recently and they lets us keep one or two old friends…

I bought a new iPhone in May, and there was no charger with it, but there was a charging cable. The man said I would have to buy a new charger, but it seems they made a mistake. They only changed one end of the cable – the one that goes in the charger. The socket on the phone hasn’t changed, so I can still use my old charger and my old cable.

I’m surprised it didn’t include a requirement to be vaccinated – AND have the booster(s).

and a new Imessage app????

Don’t forget the $19 dust cloth!!

Well Pig looks like Larry Croc will be your new friend !

Apple..redefining planned obsolescence

I often think the IPhone is like a cult. The cult members can also be snobby, shaming those of us who don’t have IPhones.

You can keep all your friends, Pig. But if you ask me, you’re better off without Rat. He’s holding you back and bringing you down.

I swear ta gawd, anymore updates OR suggestions from Alexa/Siri OR reading “awards” from Amazon, and I may swear off electronics forev. . a week or so. . .

We are switching from AT&T. They gave us an unlock code for my wife’s Samsung, but my flip phone is “processing”. Has been for 13 days. I’ll just replace it.

Got the new iPhone, bought the recommended brick….but my iPad charger works just as well…go figure…that’s how they make more money…idiotas

Dump Pastis.

Since Apple and I have different social and political agendas, I’m surprised they haven’t contacted me with the same requirement… (I own an iPhone)

It’s not completely untrue, because your old friends will get tired of you talking about how great Apple is all the time :D

Hmm I don’t know about the expense of getting all new phone accessories, but the getting new friends should be a piece of cake since I don’t have any now, anyone i become friends with in the future is a new friend by definition.

I’d say “upgrade” is an arguable term.

Just say NO to the annual upgraded phone…….

Let’s Go Sheeple!

Start with Rat. Maybe not upgrade tech, but it upgrades life.

Amazing to me that so many fall for the B$ and hype surrounding Apple products. They aren’t any better than any other brand. In many cases worse. And waaayy more costly than necessary. The term, ‘suckers’ is appropriate.

actually  technology tends to be remarkably long-lived. I’m still using an iPhone 7 with the latest iOS and I have an iMac G3 I still use for games. just sayin’

Apple can tick me off with some of the policies but I’m not buying alternate vendor’s products.

I dunno…most of the Android ppl I know are much more cultish than the apple fanatics…

APPLE = Planned obsolescence.

Yes, you have to buy a minimum of three new iFriend units. They will be spying on you on behalf of the Chinese chip makers.

There is a reason why it is called the Cult of the Beige Box.

Whenever somebody says that they prefer Google/Samsung phones to Apple, I ask them why. None of them have ever been able to give me an answer.

I like Apple because they’re the ones that innovate and come up with new ideas. Google and Samsung have just been copying from Apple the whole time.

Making the new incompatible with the old is as old as consumer goods. Planned obsolescence is older than the phrase. Apple has adopted every sleazy marketing tactic ever invented.

Must get the friends only Apple wants you to have. And pay through your nose for your new friends. That’s not counting selling your soul for the supposedly upgraded tech that a certain someone recently reveal was no different from past iphones.

Oooh. A chance to edit your contact list!

I’m way ahead of you Apple! I don’t have any friends!