Posted on 12/27/2017 6:25:21 AM PST by grundle
Only fair. Since Microsoft stole Apple’s “windows” (GUI) idea, now it’s Apple’s turn to steal Microsoft’s “make it worse so they have to buy a new one” idea.
They did nothing wrong. But this should be a lesson to them, not to change things without making a big announcement.
Apple makes good stuff,
but they can stuff it with their dishonesty
There’s a chart out there that correlates Google searches for “slow iphone” with the release dates of new iPhone models. This chart demonstrated the correlation over several years and models.
The thinking is that Apple includes handicapping elements in updates just prior to new product releases, hoping consumers will decide to replace their “slow, old” phones with the new model.
That’s what I was hoping this suit was about.
Jobs stole it from Xerox.
For those who don’t understand how difficult it is to pack all that logic in a cell phone, this makes more sense than having to open up your phone every 2 years to replace the batteries.
Instead, try a Class Action Suit against Telemarketers if you want to make your phones last longer.
Apple stole Xerox’s GUI first.................
Apple is long due for punishment
They play nasty games with the customer. Sick of never ending updates...
Good. Apple needs to be taken down a peg or two.
Apple didn’t steal squat from Xerox. Microsoft, on the other hand, was forced to settle with Apple to the tune of something like $150 million if memory serves me correctly.
True. I was just making a joke.
I saw the article on wattsupwiththat and there was a direct correlation with new iphones and slowed older phones for every iphone release. It is not the battery, Too regular and too correlated with the new phones.
If it were the battery then they are really bad engineers to design such a shortfall. Interesting that all the android phones do not suffer this battery issue. Must be better engineers.
Lesson? Turn off your iphone updates before every new iphone release- or go android, which is what I did.
MS never stole windows from Apple. Xerox developed GUIs and mouse controllers nearly a decade before Apple used them.
The huge settlement Microsoft paid Apple begs to differ, and Apple paid Xerox for their visit to PARC, nothing was stolen. Xerox had developed a very rudimentary mouse with an equally rudimentary graphical user interface, but had done nothing with it, it basically died on the vine at Xerox.
“Lesson? Turn off your iphone updates before every new iphone release- or go android, which is what I did.”
Good advice, but I’m stuck with iPhone for work purposes.
Yesterday I installed the latest update (iOS 11.2.1) and things seem back to normal. Funny, but the release notes only mentioned security updates. Nothing about speed or other performance bugs.
Apple’s China products suffer a set back. On the bright side, it will be the lawyers new gold mine.
Apple makes me angry.
So if I buy a new iPhone 7...Will Apple allow my new phone down? Or does it wait until the battery gets old?
It sounds like they did a whole lot of wrong. Amazing how they only “fix” the old battery issue when a new phone is released. Oh and it just so happens that the fix slows down the old phone making consumers buy new phones. If and they didn’t tell anyone.
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