I always feel left out when a friend had some cool apple product. But I never could get on the band wagon. I love freedom of choice. I also guess I can't understand the subscription concept. I think people use renting as a way to cripple people. I paid rent into a place for 10 years with an average of 1100 a month. That is a staggering $132,000!!!!!!!! And I have nothing to show for it!
So I do not want to rent music, rent a car, rent a house, rent an operating system, nothing. Owning something is a real achievement. The people we pay rent to, for anything, use that money to buy and own something of investment value. Why not do the same.
So since apple is one of the subscription groups, no thanks.
As far as apple crippling the phone.. they did it so it wouldn't overheat, and so the battery would last longer. Well my cheesy samsung is old, and has a large replaceable battery. It is 3 years old and still going strong. And because of this, I will buy another of out makes sense to do so