Anon describes apple's practices
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A unibody phone can't be missing parts
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Leaving a comment in case someone can link it
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Not a war crime, definitely a crime. Legal in the usa tho
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I stopped reading when it said “$2000 paperweights”. You can dislike Apple for any number of reasons, but this doesn’t make sense. Its products work just fine and they run the software that’s on them.
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I haven't had any such run-ins yet. When I asked them to replace my iPad's batteries, they said that they couldn't do it, but gave me a new iPad of the same model for CHF 100.- (which would have been the price of the battery replacement).
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I stopped reading when it said “$2000 paperweights”. You can dislike Apple for any number of reasons, but this doesn’t make sense. Its products work just fine and they run the software that’s on them.
It becomes a paperweight once you install the software updates.
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It becomes a paperweight once you install the software updates.
No it does not. Anyone who refers to a functional machine as a paperweight should be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
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No it does not. Anyone who refers to a functional machine as a paperweight should be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
"Functional machine" is the working term here. But I guess we have different definitions of what counts as "functional"
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I live in South Korea. Pretty much anywhere you go there's going to be a Samsung center. Tolerable(albeit not ideal) price, at least compared to Apple, fast(got my mobo fixed in <1h), super nice people.
I know they're far from perfect and I'd use Pixels in a heartbeat once Google decides to sell them in South Korea but Samsung in South Korea at least, pretty impressive. If only they weren't fucking us with higher prices compared to other countries and shitty Exynos chips...
So, I've got Samsung appliances that I deeply hate. I didn't purchase them on purpose, they were in the house when we bought it.
If there is a power outage or brown out the control hangs on the fridge and it stops cooling. It has to be reset. To reset, you have to press two touch screen buttons. You have to hit it just right, the press has to be closely synchronized and then hold for 10sec, my girl is unable to get it.
The Samsung oven is currently sitting in the yard in a junk pile to be disposed of. Replaced that hunk of shit with a 1970s GE mechanically controlled stove. Had to replace the indicator lights and the timer unit due to age. Cooks better than the Samsung ever did.
House also came with a Samsung washer and dryer, I'm just waiting for them to do some stupid shit.
I did buy a Samsung TV, it's decent but I am fighting a low-level enshittification war on all the ads and shit it keeps installing. It has particular features that means I don't completely lobotomize it and keep some of the smart TV stuff.
I guess what I'm saying is that Samsung can suck my fucking balls.
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"Functional machine" is the working term here. But I guess we have different definitions of what counts as "functional"
We do not have different definitions of a functional machine. If you think they’re overpriced, fine; underperforming per price:performance ratio? Fine. Whatever you want. But brand new Apple products work and you all sound ridiculous defending calling them paperweights.
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That was fun to watch
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No it does not. Anyone who refers to a functional machine as a paperweight should be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
Bro what? It's a greentext - it's 4chan. They all need theraphy.
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No it does not. Anyone who refers to a functional machine as a paperweight should be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
Cultist detected
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As a matter of fact, yes!
Now AI upscale it. Then blur it again. Let's see how many times we can do this before it changes the text.
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If the battery is dead how can they turn it on to find out what the problem is? Literally an unsolvable problem.
I suppose in theory they could replace the battery and then see if that fixed the issue, and if it didn't then there's another issue, and then fix that issue, but all that seems like a lot of work.
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What's next, you're going to tell me the story is homosexual as well?!?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I don’t know OP well enough to complete the meme, but I did work for Apple for many years, and several of these details don’t match their script at all.
Missing parts? The interior of that phone is one soldered piece. Just shrugging the question off? Apple people will talk your head off about the diagnostic test to sound clever. Battery swap? They would have been looking at replacing the whole unit because that’s how they roll.
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Bro what? It's a greentext - it's 4chan. They all need theraphy.
Sure, but does nobody know what a paperweight is?
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Cultist detected
Yes. The person who correctly points out that functional computers are not paperweights is a cultist. If you legitimately believe that, you need a whole lot worse than prison.
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If the battery is dead how can they turn it on to find out what the problem is? Literally an unsolvable problem.
I suppose in theory they could replace the battery and then see if that fixed the issue, and if it didn't then there's another issue, and then fix that issue, but all that seems like a lot of work.
Only a Genius could come up with a scheme that offloads the cost of their own laziness to the customer. Exactly the kind of innovation that Steve Jobs stood for.
