11-12-2012, 12:29 PM | #376 |
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Trying to wring the most amount of money possible out of Apple before the contract expires in 2014, when Apple will switch to a different supplier, as they have already done with screens.
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11-12-2012, 01:00 PM | #377 |
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Good on Samsung. It's the law of supply and demand, apple currently can't go anywhere else, so they have to swallow the hike. If you know the goose is going away, you might as well kill it.
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11-12-2012, 02:09 PM | #378 |
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As for why this came in reply to your post? Because in your reply to my post you said you disagreed with a point (and a distinction: fans vs. regular consumers) I was never making in the first place! So my reply to you was an attempt to clear that up and repeat the point I was really trying to make. Hopefully this clears that up. Back to the scam ... I actually had a co-worker fall prey to something very similar in NY over 10 years ago -- before the iPad or Android ever existed! She had bought what she thought was a hot electronics item (IIRC, it was a something like a DVD player) from some con artists on a street corner, and all that was in the box were rocks. We all thought it was hysterically funny. She was mad, but even she had to laugh it off too. How can you can get really angry over something like this? It's not like she was mugged or something. And it's a good lesson to learn about being a smarter consumer and how you spend your money. I relay this story in part because of the skepticism by speakingtohe that the recent incident in Arlington actually happened. It's such an old scam. --Pat |
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11-12-2012, 02:55 PM | #381 |
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Huh?? Monopoly? There are plenty of other suppliers Apple can (and likely will) switch to. If Apple chose to be hostile to a supplier with whom they had a contract that allowed a price hike, they should not expect preferential treatment.
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In post #362 you said that "this is what happens to "sheeple"". In post #363 expressed my disagreement with the idea that fans are the ones getting conned, making this an implied distinction fans vs. regular consumers. So I don't understand why, when replying to me in post #367 you would bring up the susceptibility of Android fans to getting conned. Quote:
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Yes, we're well aware you're out for revenge. I'm not sure how a company manages to instill such thorough loyalty in a customer, though. Did Samsung put your children through university? Drive you to the hospital at 4 in the morning?
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I should add that I think your making a distinction between "fans" and regular consumers is an artificial and false one. It's a distinction that is totally irrelevant to my original post (363). All fans (of technology) are to some extent consumers. And in this big sea of consumers there is a wide gamut -- from the very cautious and savvy shoppers, to careless and uninformed ones. The lady in Arlington, while likely an Apple fan, is also likely a careless and uninformed consumer. So, bottom line, I replied to you the way I did because I didn't see the relevancy to my post of the distinction you were making, I didn't agree with the distinction your were making, and so I just wanted to clarify and reiterate my original post, assuming you hadn't understood it. --Pat |
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