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The funny thing about this, when there is a public conversation about their practices or legislative process to stop it, companies (i.e apple, uhg, john deer, F
by monksy 4y ago
The funny thing about this, when there is a public conversation about their practices or legislative process to stop it, companies (i.e apple, uhg, john deer, Facebook, etc) will cry floods of tears, claim they'll go out of business due, people will lose their job, to the extra cost of compliance. They'd rather keep disadvantaged customers rather than compete and deliver value.
All of this while reporting record profits, trying to pr spin this, and throwing more money than lost with compliance at lobbyists who will lie and financially influence to the legislators.
- tzs 4y agoWhat does Apple make hard to cancel?
- monksy 4y agoIf you say Louis Rossmann 3 times after saying Apple you'll get a long list of anti-consumer practices. Most recently: The issue with their charging ports being changed frequently and being non standard. They even tried to abuse the USBC standard just so they could get their charing cable lock in.
- russelldjimmy 4y ago> The issue with their charging ports being changed frequently iPhones have consistently had lightning since 2005 MacBooks have had USBC (compatible with all USBC plugs) since 2016 iPads Pro have had USBC (compatible with all USBC plugs) since 2018 iPhones are rumoured to join the USBC club What am I missing? > They even tried to abuse the USBC standard When did this happen?
- Kwpolska 4y agoiPhones did not ship until 2007, and they used a different connector (30-pin) before 2012.
- russelldjimmy 4y agoMy bad. I meant what you wrote.
- dakial1 4y agoThis is the surprising thing about Brazil, here we have the big corporations as well, and a lot (if not all) corrupt politicians. But somehow these consumer laws passed got approved and will be pretty hard to remove.