Posted on 12/27/2017 6:25:21 AM PST by grundle
Microsoft saved Apple. I’m sure that costs any gui issues that linger.
Internet companies do the same thing with your home computer.
“”If it turns out that consumers would have replaced their battery instead of buying new iPhones had they known the true nature of Apple’s upgrades, you might start to have a better case for some sort of misrepresentation or fraud,” said Rory Van Loo, a Boston University professor specializing in consumer technology law. “
Maybe it’s me, but the above statement makes no sense.
Even if that's not what they intended (which I'm sure is not the case) they should have known to inform the consumers. Bottom line this is massive fraud.
Apple needs to have their taints handed to them on this one. It needs to set them back a couple billion.
If you update, it is because you chose to update. If this makes you sick, just say no.
Agree. Apple made a software change to keep battery life acceptable on aging iPhones while running the latest software. If they hadn’t done that then people would be screaming about having to pay to replace 3 year old batteries. OTOH people would be screaming if their aging iPhones couldn’t run the latest software.
Of course, it was a big fight when Apple first made phones without replaceable batteries. Replaceable batteries cost extra and makes the phones bigger and less robust.
No matter what Apple does, someone’s going to whine wanting something for nothing.
Two of my friends at work are big iphone fans. At least they WERE. One also has an iPad and said that after the last upgrade, after market chargers no longer work.
Because of this one-two punch, he said his current pad and phone are the last apple products he will buy. He’s PI$$ED.
If you don’t update your Apple phone, they start shutting down the functions of the phone, making it run poorer or not at all.
So, I’m glad this suit is happening and hoping it spurs more. Apple has become a big ugly monopoly and needs a good a$$ kicking.
I thought about moving to Samsung. I do wonder if the Samsung product issues were fake and or exaggerated. I have a Samsung HD tv and really like it.
I’ve been an apple product supporter at home and at my business. At least 10 phones, 5 Ipads, ipods...
Apple’s empire will fall hard in a rolling 12 month period one of these days as a better mousetrap comes along. And this time, the demise of Apple may not be so short lived as many of the legacy employees for the last 2-4 decades have retired with a pile of money. In fact, some may be building the next mouse trap as we speak...
And yet, they still have their followers sleep in line for a week just to buy the latest model year after year.
Yeah. Just like the dealerships must provide free battery replacements for automobiles. What a soft pathetic society we have become.
A little early to categorically say they did nothing wrong.
Apple did not create the GUI they’re often accredited for. The WYSIWYG concept was from Xerox’s PARC project that Steve Jobs was exposed to.
Even the original Mac had immediate competition and overlap in the development lifecycles of competitors. The original Mac was released in 1984. The Amiga and Atari ST were released in 1985. All had mouse driven UI’s. The Amiga, with all the co-processors, was far more capable. The Xerox Star platform was released in 1981.
The only reason Apple survived was because they had clever marketing. They appealed to education institutions as the “creative” computer, which took hold...especially with desktop publishing. Even then, I had superior desktop publishing software on an Amiga. At university I received a B+ on an assignment instead of an A. The reason I was given was that I had superior software (from a Mac loving professor).
Apple survives due to good marketing and the higher prices of their products which are tolerated because they control an aligned hardware-software combination. People are willing to pay for it when there’s cheaper alternatives. They have a niche in the market. They’re not as brilliant as their followers believe. They did not invent the tablet/smartphone, I worked on such a device in 2001 (Intel product), it was never released but there were many others working on similar technology.
I will never buy Apple products.
Got to update to get the latest security patches.
If the battery has a defect the auto companies have to replace them.
“Got to update to get the latest security patches.
Indeed!!
And being safer shouldn’t make someone mad, should it??
“If you don’t update your Apple phone, they start shutting down the functions of the phone, making it run poorer or not at all.
No. If you don’t update, everything stays the same, but you are vulnerable to threats.
Bookmark.
Um, neither Microsoft or Apple came up with the idea, and both are intellectual thieves.
B*tch all they want,, they ain’t gonna get a new free phone out of it.. unless Obammy gives em another one. most of them couldn’t spell hi tech much less understand it.
Buyer Beware? No.. Buyer get educated. Before products go out the back door to stores , they are as good as obsolete..
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