Apple products: Worth The Money or a scam?

Whenever you hear the word Apple, what do you think of? Perhaps a VR Headset, an IPhone, Airpods, or maybe just an actual apple. The company Apple has become the largest technology company, with their market cap being around $2.99 trillion dollars as of April 9 2025. However, Apple has and still continues to receive a lot of backlash from the community for a variety of reasons. 

Let's take a step back to 2020, when Apple started to improve their carbon footstep by reducing their emissions. Along with this, they promised to start using less packaging to reduce waste and preserve the environment. To do this, they began to quit including multiple accessories with their products. For example, Apple IPhones used to come with both a charging cable and a wall socket adapter. They no longer come with these accessories, meaning the consumer must also purchase it separately, not to mention that it comes in its own individual package. Also, IPhones no longer have headphone jacks either. Because of this, a consumer who wishes to use wired headphones or buds must buy a separate adapter to be able to use their headphones, which also comes in its own packaging. People have wondered why the headphone jack was removed. What replaced it? Eventually, people opened up newer models of phones to find a singular useless piece of plastic in the place of the jack outlet. When questioned, Apple claimed that the plastic helped “protect the phone from falling”, however considering that IPhones have always been notorious for breaking by simply looking at them the wrong way, this seems like more of an excuse than a legit claim.  

It would also be important to mention that IPhone models are constantly changing what type of cable they need to charge, again making the consumer pay for more and waste more packaging. Besides chargers, the cases change to, as Apple is constantly changing the size of the phone along with the button and camera arraignments. Once again, the consumer must spend more and waste more to get a new case for their IPhones. 

Another point that's worth mentioning, Apple products aren’t cheap. Remember that headphone jack adapter previously mentioned? That thing by itself goes for nine dollars. Others that are arguably just as good are going for as low as $1.50. Also, whilst researching these prices I also found another product that's basically the same thing, but it’s an entire headphone cable rather than just the adapter. The offering from Apple was $39 dollars, while one from Insignia was only $9.99. I personally have used Insignia products before, and they work just fine, just as good as Apple ones in fact. 

Many more allegations have been made against Apple for various other reasons. However, as someone who has a couple of Apple products, I will admit the quality they have is very nice. However, I could just go to my local Best Buy and find a similar product from a different company that works just as good, if not better, for a much lower price. In conclusion, Apple products tend to be of very good quality, but for the price, they aren’t worth it. 

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