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Originally Posted by odedta
That's their way of saying: Get a new iPad  |
Yes, I know exactly what it means, and I have absolutely no time for a company that thinks that deliberately "breaking" their old products somehow is tantamount to a good marketing strategy. Maybe the millions out there that somehow thought that Jobs was a God-Guru, or that Apple can do no wrong will buy into that, but I won't. It's ridiculous.
I've spent the last few months now listening to how evil Microsoft is for "abandoning" XP, after nearly a decade and a half, and nary a word uttered about how Apple sucks for forcing people to get rid of perfectly-functioning devices by the simple expedient of
deliberately making them unworkable. So I can run out and spend ANOTHER thou on a device I use solely for testing? Considering I find it a toy, rather than a productivity tool, I just think that's beyond absurd. Apple would have to come out with something utterly earth-shattering, work-and-productivity-wise, for me to EVER buy something else from them. I think the way that they treat their customers is positively abominable.
And their tech support? OMG, I cannot tell you how many clients I've had that have gone to Apple TS to help them (with installing a program like ADE on their Macs, or trying to read their MOBI files in KPreviewer), and those morons will tell (my clients) that the "file is corrupted," because they can't figure out that a client didn't DOWNLOAD the file from his browser correctly. Uh...get out much, in the real world, outside of the Apple ecosystem? How hard is it to know how file downloads work? Someone in TECH SUPPORT can't tell that a user didn't download a file from Gmail correctly? Wowza...and the Apple-users PAY for that. Un-frakking-believable.
Truly. I know that a lot of people love their Macs, and all, but...while Jobs certainly understood the human brain's desire to "be cool," I have to say, to me, the hype and fanboi-stuff is
completely incomprehensible.
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Hitch