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View Poll Results: Do you think an iPad Mini will ship this year? | |||
I believe it is for real, and I want one | 32 | 35.16% | |
I believe it is for real, not interested in one | 45 | 49.45% | |
I don't think it is coming soon, but I'm interested | 6 | 6.59% | |
I don't think it is coming soon, not interested | 6 | 6.59% | |
I will only get one if it blends | 2 | 2.20% | |
Other (explain in post) | 0 | 0% | |
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10-17-2012, 11:40 PM | #46 |
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I disagree, there's been plenty of things that didn't work (antenna issue on the 4, battery issue on the 4S, maps and wifi on the 5, screen retention and artefacts on the retina macbook, ...) yet, people continue to sing the song that "it just works". What really works is the marketing department, there is no denying that it is second to none. Apple is not alone is producing duds, but they somehow get a pass and that just baffles me.
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It is an addiction when people believe that they just can't get along without "it". All of us here on this site are addicted to books, to devices, but some are more affected than others. If Samsung, if Sony, if Asus pulled their products from the market tomorrow, and if in fact if Amazon and Google pulled theirs as well, I would be sad, but still I would firmly believe that I would be ok, that the next group of manufactures in line would do pretty well for what I wanted. The Apple people would be much more upset. The "magic" would be gone. |
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Considering all the Apple iWhatever adapters currently hard-wired into cars, stereos, etc around the world, I consider Apple's latest move to be a pure money grab and a betrayal of their (rabidly) loyal customer base. Will they get away with it? Probably! I'm sure they've looked at the cost-benefit and concluded that they will probably retain 99% of their loyal fans, say, and went ahead with it. |
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10-18-2012, 11:14 AM | #51 |
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As for the change from one connector to another? Someone's gonna get screwed. Suppose they went from the (Apple proprietary) 30pin connector to micro USB? All those hardwired connectors in cars and stereos are going to need an adapter anyway. I remember a large number of people swearing and cursing when PCs went from EISA cards to PCI cards. |
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10-18-2012, 11:34 AM | #53 |
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They do indeed. They get to sweep them under the rug with "you're using it wrong", "here's a sleeve, shut up now" and so on. At least Amazon is replacing the Paperwhites, and you must be living under a rock if you haven't seen the backslash against Amazon for the Paperwhite screen issues.
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Getting a pass would be news outlets just not mentioning it, or pooh-poohing it. I haven't seen much coverage of the Paperwhite discolouration issues at all, what coverage there has been has been around the diamond patterns at the bottom of the screen, which are a design 'feature'. |
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10-18-2012, 01:02 PM | #55 |
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What I mean by "they get a pass" refers to the users, which keep singing "it just works", when obviously that is not the case. For whatever reason, apple users tend to sweep faults under the rug and continue praising the company regardless of this string of mishaps. This is a true testament to the apple PR machine.
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10-18-2012, 01:53 PM | #57 | |
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10-18-2012, 02:25 PM | #58 | |
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I really don't understand why you seem to care so much. It would be one thing if you we're an apple user, experiencing these issues yourself, but you aren't. You keep complaining about the apple fanboy mentality, but you do the exact same thing, you're just consistently and tediously negative in your opinions on the company / products while they're positive. |
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The converse of that though is that these sorts of mis-steps, if they continue, could actually be much more damaging to Apple than they would be to other companies, precisely because of how much value there is in the 'just works' branding. That is what makes millions of people feel safe in preordering a product. If there are enough screwups that people start to expect them, Apple will stop seeing those sort of numbers. It is much easier to lose goodwill than to build it, and much much harder to rebuild it once it has been lost. Case in point with the Paperwhite, I was really keen on it when it was first announced, and it would probably have been a pre-order for me once it was available in the UK. Now with the issues that have come out it has gone back to a try-first, might-buy device. |
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10-18-2012, 03:10 PM | #60 |
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As far as actual Apple device users criticizing Apple products, if they do, even when they have a very legitimate reason to, they often get persecuted beyond belief by the loyalists. I've been an Apple device owner/user on and off since I bought an Apple II+ way back in 1981, which is before many of the loyalists were even born. But try to even ask about short battery life in any iPod touch model, especially on the official Apple forums, and you can expect to be called every name in the book. Apple turns a blind eye to such rude and unjust behavior. However if you retaliate to their vulgar name calling by simply calling them fanboys Apple will ban you for life from their forums. So what I'm trying to say here is that there is little incentive for the average Apple device owner to criticize any device as they have certainly seen what the anonymous loyalists will do to them. They surely won't get a legitimate answer to their question or a workaround to their problem, so why bother....
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