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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Apple is doing a great job of pissing off customers. Way to go Apple.
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Seems like there are
way more non-Apple customers who are pissed off at Apple for this.
Most of the comments I've seen on the boards run along the lines of '...it's not fair... I wouldn't buy one even if they ever get to be available here!' but people need to get real; during the 'Sermon on the Mount' - sorry, the iPhone launch - Steve Jobs said, loud and clear, 'no third party apps'; surely, given the amount of media attention iPhone has had, anyone who bought one (or two!) cannot have been in any way ignorant of
exactly what they were buying - and what they can and cannot do with it.
Of course, if you buy something it's yours; you can do what
you like with it. But that doesn't mean I'm going to fill up my petrol-engined Mercedes with diesel just because I can, even though people said I shouldn't. A certain level of common sense is generally required to maintain what we call 'a life'.
I quite fancy a Sony Reader, but as I'm in the UK I can't buy one without ( I believe) breaking the EULA, voiding the warranty, and jumping thorough all kinds of hoops to get onto the Sony Connect store. None of which, I'm prepared to do - though others on this board have, and I respect their reasons for doing so. AFAIK, Sony don't specifically advise you not to plug in their 110v charger into a 240v socket, but can you imagine their response if you tried to make a warranty claim for doing so, from a country where they don't distribute?
Apple have been voluble in advising people that the update might cause problems with iPhones that have been modded (even though such mods are apparently against the EULA); if people go ahead and perform the update anyway, then tough.
Apple told you they were going to tell you. They told you. Now they're telling you they told you.
FFS! You're adults; deal with it like adults (i.e. without running to your lawyers crying 'it's just not fair...') <shakes head in disbelief>