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An Open Letter to Apple, Inc.

I think we can all agree on what we would change.

An Open Letter to Apple, Inc.

Just a few concerns: 

1. This morning, I left my house with my iPhone 5 charged to 100%. I glanced at it half an hour later and it was at 89%. Another hour later I checked the time and the battery was down to 77%. I opened it, checked my email, and watched the battery jump from 77% to 72% right before my eyes. If there is some way this could be fixed, I would appreciate having a phone battery that lasts more than a few hours.

2. It would be nice if I didn't have to delete half of my apps and photos just to have enough empty storage to download a new software update. 

3. Can we go back to the good old days when I could make a picture my background on my lock screen and it wouldn't zoom in 5x?

4. I hardly ever use Siri, and yet it has opened and started talking to me during class/whenever I'm in a quiet room countless times. Can we please make “vibrate” mean that my phone will only vibrate, and not make that very loud noise to activate Siri when you hold down the home button?

5. If you're going to make a product that people use all day every day that very easily shatters when dropped, it would be helpful if there was also some sort of automatic insurance for replacing screens. It is rarely my fault when my phone slips out of my hand and lands screen-down on the concrete. Or maybe iPhones are just made to be too slippery and breakable. 

6. My headphones broke. New ones from the Apple Store are $30. Does it really cost that much to produce headphones?

7. Siri in theory is a great idea, but when I'm driving and I ask Siri to "Call Mom" and instead it dials some random person whose number I have in my contacts but I haven't spoken to in years, I am at more of a risk of a car accident when I freak out and look down at my phone to try and end the call before it actually goes through. 

8. I'm glad new MacBooks are thinner and lighter than ever, but what if I still want to watch a DVD on my computer? Where did the disc drive go? 

9. If you're going to make a computer for your wrist, I don't know if "watch" is the right word to use. 

10. Stop moving things around! On my first iPhone the headphone jack was on top, then it was on the bottom, and now on the iPhone 6 the power button is on the side?? 


In the end, I will probably continue buying Apple products no matter how many complaints I have. But I think we can all agree that while no technology is perfect, Apple products are certainly far from how great they claim to be. 

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