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It sounds like Apple was upset about the counterfeit products being sold on Amazon and, after issuing hundreds of thousands of takedown notices threatened to su

It sounds like Apple was upset about the counterfeit products being sold on Amazon and, after issuing hundreds of thousands of takedown notices threatened to sue Amazon themselves and reached an agreement where Amazon took measures to eliminate the counterfeits. The knock seems to be that they only did this for Apple products, not counterfeits of say Samsung phones because they were not pressured in similar ways by Samsung.

jtbayly 3y ago
I didn't read the whole article, but it seemed focused on (missing) advertisements, not on counterfeits.
- nemo 3y ago
  The advertisements were what was driving the counterfeiting. It was by giving Apple a page without third parties injecting ads into it that they handled the counterfeiting issue.
- BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
  > I didn't read the whole article That's rectifiable.
  - robwwilliams 3y ago
    Great response!
    - QuantumGood 3y ago
      itsrectifiable.com is available.
      - twothamendment 3y ago
        Was available... For the right price, it is rectifiable.
      - CoastalCoder 3y ago
        I really, really hope it's bought by an analog electronics manufacturer.
  - deleted 3y ago
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- neogodless 3y ago
  It's both. > In a statement today, Apple explained: > > Apple also told Insider that the 2018 agreement with Amazon “sought to address significant counterfeit and safety issues” on Amazon’s marketplace.
QwertyPi 3y ago
Ok, there are two issues here: 1. Amazon refuses to hold themselves accountable for the products they sell—they advertise one thing but sell you another, clearly indicating they have no idea what they're actually selling. 2. Apple relies on legal protections to artificially inflate the pricing of their products. AirPods aren't much better than bluetooth headphones sold for a tenth the price, and they are straight-up inferior to the products of competitors with a third their price. If the superiority of their own products were so obvious the branding wouldn't be an issue at all. And don't even get me started on how they force consumers to buy their hardware to get access to their software, which should be forced to be sold on the open market along side their competitors. Now of course we need to fix the first issue to fix the second one, but the second issue has far more destructive consequences.
- DueDilligence 3y ago
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- 93po 3y ago
  I don't know of any third party options to Airpods that: 1. pair instantly without problems to my apple devices 2. intelligently know when to switch between my phone to my laptop 3. intelligently know when to switch from car bluetooth to headphones 4. is compatible with "Find My" 5. has magsafe charging 6. has same sound quality and sound cancellation with above features these are all very important to me and my experience with literally any other non-apple device has been awful
  - seec 3y ago
    Those "features" are arbitrary stuff Apple told you to care about through their marketing. Many people really don't care about them, because outside the Apple ecosystem, there are other, often better solutions. The auto switching never worked properly for me so I'm always curious how come all Apple fanboys have it working so well. In my opinion it's like the Siri "demo" I got back in the day where the thing supposedly working so well, completely, and utterly failed, yet my Apple fan friend acted like everything worked fine. I have non-Apple Bluetooth earbuds and they pair simply fine to my Apple devices (and others). Apple oversell the shit of their iCloud "auto switching" (that often do not work) but what you actually want is Bluetooth multipoint, a feature that many headphones in the price range of Airpods have. Find my and MagSafe charging are very odd, Apple marketing induced request, and Apple definitely doesn't have a lead in sound quality at the price they sell their stuff. If anything, their sound quality is extremely disappointing considering the price. Funny thing is that for the price of a set of Airpods, you can get 2-3 equivalent competitors' products. So much of the stuff you say matters is largely irrelevant. Before calling me a hater: I'm an Apple customer since the PPC days and bought both first iPod and first iPhone. But I am currently leaving the Apple ecosystem precisely because their pricing is not grounded in any technological reality, and mostly about fashion/social statuts.

jtbayly 3y ago

I didn't read the whole article, but it seemed focused on (missing) advertisements, not on counterfeits.

nemo 3y ago
The advertisements were what was driving the counterfeiting. It was by giving Apple a page without third parties injecting ads into it that they handled the counterfeiting issue.
BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
> I didn't read the whole article That's rectifiable.
- robwwilliams 3y ago
  Great response!
  - QuantumGood 3y ago
    itsrectifiable.com is available.
    - twothamendment 3y ago
      Was available... For the right price, it is rectifiable.
    - CoastalCoder 3y ago
      I really, really hope it's bought by an analog electronics manufacturer.
- deleted 3y ago
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neogodless 3y ago
It's both. > In a statement today, Apple explained: > > Apple also told Insider that the 2018 agreement with Amazon “sought to address significant counterfeit and safety issues” on Amazon’s marketplace.

QwertyPi 3y ago

Ok, there are two issues here: 1. Amazon refuses to hold themselves accountable for the products they sell—they advertise one thing but sell you another, clearly indicating they have no idea what they're actually selling. 2. Apple relies on legal protections to artificially inflate the pricing of their products. AirPods aren't much better than bluetooth headphones sold for a tenth the price, and they are straight-up inferior to the products of competitors with a third their price. If the superiority of their own products were so obvious the branding wouldn't be an issue at all. And don't even get me started on how they force consumers to buy their hardware to get access to their software, which should be forced to be sold on the open market along side their competitors. Now of course we need to fix the first issue to fix the second one, but the second issue has far more destructive consequences.

DueDilligence 3y ago
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93po 3y ago
I don't know of any third party options to Airpods that: 1. pair instantly without problems to my apple devices 2. intelligently know when to switch between my phone to my laptop 3. intelligently know when to switch from car bluetooth to headphones 4. is compatible with "Find My" 5. has magsafe charging 6. has same sound quality and sound cancellation with above features these are all very important to me and my experience with literally any other non-apple device has been awful
- seec 3y ago
  Those "features" are arbitrary stuff Apple told you to care about through their marketing. Many people really don't care about them, because outside the Apple ecosystem, there are other, often better solutions. The auto switching never worked properly for me so I'm always curious how come all Apple fanboys have it working so well. In my opinion it's like the Siri "demo" I got back in the day where the thing supposedly working so well, completely, and utterly failed, yet my Apple fan friend acted like everything worked fine. I have non-Apple Bluetooth earbuds and they pair simply fine to my Apple devices (and others). Apple oversell the shit of their iCloud "auto switching" (that often do not work) but what you actually want is Bluetooth multipoint, a feature that many headphones in the price range of Airpods have. Find my and MagSafe charging are very odd, Apple marketing induced request, and Apple definitely doesn't have a lead in sound quality at the price they sell their stuff. If anything, their sound quality is extremely disappointing considering the price. Funny thing is that for the price of a set of Airpods, you can get 2-3 equivalent competitors' products. So much of the stuff you say matters is largely irrelevant. Before calling me a hater: I'm an Apple customer since the PPC days and bought both first iPod and first iPhone. But I am currently leaving the Apple ecosystem precisely because their pricing is not grounded in any technological reality, and mostly about fashion/social statuts.