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by newtritious 4y ago
I think the point is that you’ve publicly claimed that this location exists and used it as part of an argument against Apple, but when asked to name it, you can’t. An honest person would have no reason to hide the location. I think it’s fa
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by newtritious 4y ago
This is just a poor analysis. By the time it came out, DRDOS was irrelevant. The G4 cube was expensive, and comparatively slow, and unreliable. The Zune had some extra features that were irrelevant to most users, a poor ecosystem and was
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by newtritious 4y ago
If it’s a real location with a real Apple Store, why can’t you name it?
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by newtritious 4y ago
Did they? I’ve hardly ever seen such banners. Only reporting on them. But in any case, there is no point in further discussion with you since you have stated your ideology.
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by newtritious 4y ago
Is it? That honestly doesn’t seem remotely credible. You are claiming that there is a ‘location’ where Apple themselves in general need to send off a phone for a battery replacement, one of the most common repairs. Which Apple Store was
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by newtritious 4y ago
> companies after a certain size are simply trying to maximize profits at all costs. This is an ideological claim that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Obviously if you hold this as an axiom, you won’t be able to see that companies are made
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by newtritious 4y ago
Again the innuendo. You are agreeing that they are behaving in a sustainable, future-oriented, sustainable, humane way, but presenting this as if it’s not actually true. The fact that China hasn’t improved on human rights the way everyone
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by newtritious 4y ago
So you knew it’s not the general case, and yet you said it anyway.
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by newtritious 4y ago
They are lying if they are claiming it’s the general case, which is how they phrased it, so yes.
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by newtritious 4y ago
They are also protecting you against repair shops using substandard parts, and compromising device security. The claim about them doing this to make you buy a new device is made up.
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by newtritious 4y ago
No, you said it in reference to suicide nets. Nobody mentioned children and political prisoners before now. Children and political prisoners may be used as forced labor in China, but pretending that has something to do with Apple in partic
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by newtritious 4y ago
The implication being that they only ‘look’ like they are not evil, but secretly they actually are?
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by newtritious 4y ago
> because Apple takes 2 weeks & wipes data from device They don’t. It’s a 30 minute repair with no wipe necessary.
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by newtritious 4y ago
This one does: https://jacobdoescode.com/technicalc
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by newtritious 4y ago
The working conditions are not horrifying. That’s the misinformation. The suicide rate at Foxconn when the suicide nets were installed was lower than the average at US colleges. Everything about this story is just sensationalism.
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by newtritious 4y ago
Those few toggles would defeat the security protections. Most people want a security. Indeed most people never even repair a phone.
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by newtritious 4y ago
Until it is, Apple are serving their customers by protecting them from this problem.
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by newtritious 4y ago
Why are you upset about giving Apple the serial number of your device?
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by newtritious 4y ago
You haven’t said what these evil consequences are.
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by newtritious 4y ago
This is kind of a weird take. If everyone is driven by profit, but some get it by evil means and others get it by doing things that benefit their customers, can’t we simply say that the people who do evil stuff are evil, and the ones who d
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by newtritious 4y ago
Looks like Apple will be forced to put this on iOS under the EU’s new competition rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31988367