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Apple's Reputation is on a rapid Decline
As Apple is growing, the company is under the microscope. Facing tremendous amount of positive and negative attention.
Apples iphone 4 is a huge commercial success. It have one praise from alot of critics. However, the phone is heavily flawed. By the manufacturer.... design and built quality. In terms of manufacturing they use sweat shop labor that had multiple suicide deaths because of the inhuman working environment/operations. The Product design is flawed because of the "wrap around" antenna is negatively affected by holding it with your left hand... The white version is delayed because of "quality" control... while some of the black models have screen issues... in which the screens appear to be yellowish... http://www.pcworld.com/article/16882...se_police.html "Design Flaw in iPhone 4, Testers Say" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/te...html?src=busln http://gizmodo.com/5571986/apple-sup...-manufacturing Fraud is becoming more and more visible on the Apple APP store. With multiple hackers... "Reports: iTunes accounts, App Store hacked" http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20009658-37.html And Consumer Reports "Do Not Recommend" warning to their readers. In fact, earlier this year Consumer Report's "Do not buy" recommendation have made Toyota to temporarily stop producing their Lexus GX luxury SUV. Apple Forum Posters have discussed the new consumer report recommendation... which was later deleted and removed from the Apple website.. "Biz Break: Apple's iPhone 4: Consumer Reports 'can't recommend' it" http://www.siliconvalley.com/60secon...ak/ci_15498591 "Apple deleting mentions of Consumer Reports' iPhone 4 piece on forums, can't delete your thoughts" http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/a...-4-piece-on-f/ Shouldnt Apple reduce their profits by paying their workers better? And to build better high quality products? And Not block freedom of speech? Discuss. |
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Before I say this, I'm not an Apple fanboy. I have 4 PC's, 1 MacBook and an iPod Touch. Oh and an Xbox 360 (MS). The reason apple is suffering such bad publicity for this is that up till now they've done everything perfectly. They've always created brilliantly designed products, every single year. Unfortunately, the moment they slip up, because of this history, it's much bigger than it should be. You can actually reproduce the Signal problem on a number of smartphones on the market today (Nokia, Sony Ericsson..) but because they're known for pushing out 30 phones every year, and 28 suck; it doesn't matter. However, I do agree with the workers bit. They should improve the conditions. Although they're actually not that much worse than many other big companies. It's just that they've got bad publicity because of a few suicides (2 I think). |
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Maybe it's because people are realizing they're paying hundreds of dollars more for a shitty label that makes mediocre things?
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That's all I can say. Indeed. |
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Windows 7 is worse than Snow Leopard except for gaming, and Mac is slowly catching up with that. The only competition iOS has is Android, and it's still outselling it by a huge margin. The iPad is a huge sucess. The mac suite is slightly overpriced, but also better in many ways than most PC's I've seen. Although I agree, I hate Apple Tax. $39 for a bumper? Shit off. It's definitely incorrect to say their products are mediocre. You may not like them, you pay refer others, but they are certainly not mediocre. Although, yes, they should never have had this problem, and they deserve all the stick they're getting. |
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What I mean is that you don't see Microsoft coming out with a Xbox 540 when they get complaints about the red ring of death or any of that jazz. They improve the product itself, not make an Xbox 540 for people to buy. When Kunect comes out for the 360, I can bet you that they're going to have problems with it because I believe that the better technology is going to be, the better the risk of having problems. So if Apple continues making 4-5-6-115g phones, they're going to continue having problems. Master the 4g phone, solve those problems and work your way to the 5g. Take a breather for cryin' out loud. |
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Because of Apple's history it's a really easy target for people who want to bash a company. It's also by far the most innovative and produces amazing products any person who loves to use their computer/phone instead of try to fix it half the time knows that.
Half-truths and lies are very hurtful to corporate images and just really cheap. Let's do some myth-busting. - iPhone 4 has no screen issues. The discoloration is due to the special kind of glue (let's call it glue) that attaches the screen. It needs time to harden and will quickly disappear. iPhones have this 'issue' because Apple has to be able to make enough iPhones to be able to sell 1.7 million on the first weekend. - The App store wasn't hacked, 400 users were stupid enough to fall for a phishing scam. If you're stupid enough to just hand your password over there's no kind of security that can protect against that. - Consumer Reports also gave the highest marks the iPhone in their smartphone test. Due to Apple's innovations the world of computing is where it is today. By the way, who again lost the data of the entire Sidekick programme? |
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Mac will never catch up with PC's to gaming. Why? Because advanced Mac hardware is overpriced by Apple, and you can't upgrade individual Macs. Androids also don't drop calls every 30 seconds. Compared to other Tablet PC's that have been out since 2000, the iPad is a flashy etch a sketch. And don't start with that virus BS. If someone wanted to they could brick every mac on the planet in 13 seconds with a super-virus, the problem is no one bother's with such a small market. /fanboyism |
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Well, it's overpriced and if I have software, I really don't want to pay for a new version of it. Backwards compatibility rules, but I don't know if Apple recently started using it since that's where a lot of the flaws from Microsoft came from since they tried to make every program that worked in the past work on the new OS. I used to play Windows 3.11 games on XP.
The Ipods are decent once I got use to them. I received it free so it's not like I paid for it. My issue is that they cost so much. I don't think 145 dollars for an Ipod Nano would be worth it. As for sweat shops, well, it's easy for us to bitch about them because we live in a developed country. However, sweat shops can be better than the alternatives such as selling the kids and women for sex or servants where they may still be sexually abused. Eventually the workers will demand better conditions and higher pay. Then the shops will move elsewhere. That's what happened in the USA. |
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All MacBooks, MacBook Pros and Mac Pros can be very easily upgraded. Macbook Air and iMacs are constrained by their designs. One name: AT&T. Flashy etch a sketch? The iPad is easily better than most other tablets. What most companies do is produce a brick-width, 1990s-looking screen (which has low sensitivity, every. single. time.) and just put Windows 7 on it. There's no innovation anywhere. I never started with the virus stuff, but the fact is Windows has far more viruses than Mac. That and PC viruses don't work on Macs. Sure, somebody could create one. But nobody has, which Macs safer. |
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All apple products are horrendously overpriced for what they are. They are kings of planned obsolescence with a new version coming out and very limited, if any, support for the old product. Vendor lock in too, if you want an iPod you'd better not want to use anything but iTunes and hence quicktime, both of which are awfully bloated products. Quicktime is possibly the worst video player in existence, even nvlc is better. The iPad is hilarious, not only is it a fat man's touch but it can only do one thing at once. 200,000 apps, but you can only do one at a time Plus you can't do anything with their products, anything you purchase is actually hiring and they can take what they like at any time, without recompense. It's about time people got to the see the truth about Apple and I cannot hide my glee. It's as the joke goes: "iPad owners: Avoid embarrassment about masturbating in public by putting some porn on your iPad" Quote:
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It is getting an exclsive version of iOS4, which CAN multitask, so it shows how much you know. Servers probably run it because of the many nerdy things you can do with it, and the lack of viruses. I agree about the price tag. Absolutely ridiculous. Unfortunately, that is the price I am prepared to pay for, IMO, a superior product. Now, I like WIndows 7. But I find it strange how anyone for any purposes, other than Work which I can honestly say I am in love with Microsoft Office 2010 or gaming, that Windows 7 is superior. |
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My apologies for that, must have misread you. It willl definitely be free, as the iPod/iPhone was free, it'll be optional, as its always worked that way for iOS updates. Macs have a far higher lifetime. Their hardware is all high quality, and the fact that Apple manafactures it means that they can control what the quality is. And when you think about it, seeing as a Mac normally lasts twice as long as a PC, you actually save money in the long run. Find me an example where the free version is BETTER than the paid competitor. |
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I do not know about macs but are their parts interchangeable? Like can I put an nvidia card in a mac? |
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pretty sure you can change MOST of it. Say with my Macbook: To change harddrive: Remove battery (twist penny-lock and remove) Unscrew metal plates from around the inside (4 screws) Pull harddrive out, push new one in Change RAM: same, but just use the black clicky things to remove the RAM sticks. |
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You didn't answer my question about free software! :p |
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Multimedia: mplayer, ffmpeg, vlc, avidemux, handbrake, amarok, digikam Internet: firefox, thunderbird, pidgin/adium, deluge |
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iRip doesn't seem too bad but I'm unsure of it's flexibility, it looks like it can only manage an mp4 container, presumably with aac sound but idk which video. It would be the dimensions that would get me, ripping to anything less than 720 is foolish if you want a copy on the computer |
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You can rip CD's to ALAC in iTunes, which is the same quality as FLAC, which you may not have known. |
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Macs aren't bad, but I simply don't agree with Apple's EULA and free software works for me |
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One of Microsoft's officers has called the iPhone 4 "Apple's Vista". Do you think so as well?
http://www.redmondpie.com/microsoft-...windows-vista/ |
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