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Let's do the time warp again. It's just a bend in the middle of your new apple device, a little legal shuffling and lawyers laughing all night. Let's do the bendgate again. This time it's the iPad Pro with new devices being shipped pre-bent to customers. Is this Apple subtly telling their customers to get bent? Will Apple ever learn? Will we get a Bendgate the third? Tune in six months from now to find out.
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To stand and be still,
At the Birkenhead drill,
Is a damned tough bullet to chew.
-- Rudyard Kipling
(Score: 3, Disagree) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday December 29 2018, @06:54PM (4 children)
Hey, I'm all for suing Apple - nothing to do with them shipping bent devices, I just hate companies that don't pay their fair share of taxes. But in this case, the onus is on the customers: whoever buys a defective device knowing full well that it has a fair chance of being defective accepts that it may be defective.
The only customers who have a case against Apple are those who bought bent iPads before the issue became public knowledge - and even then, it should serve as a reminder not to play early adopter... The others who bought one after the disclosure knew perfectly well what the risks were, and to those I say tough cookie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @07:30PM (1 child)
Not really. Apple could be on the hook for deceptive advertising.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:53PM
It was deceptive for the first customers who - rightfully - expected to have a flat phone. Since then, Apple came out with this "bent tablets are okay" bull. Thus, from that point onward, whoever who hasn't been living under a rock who bought an iPad knew exactly what to expect in advance. No deception there for those suckers.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @12:16AM
Wait it is ok for a company to fuck over its customers. But not ok for them to skip out on taxes?
You do realize apple is ripping off the same people? Right?
Steve Jobs spent a lifetime 'ripping off the man'. What he never realized in his hippy commune ways was, he was the man and so is everyone else...
Until I saw this I would not expect to get a bent product out of Apple. Now I know to look for it and would give it a skip. Not everyone is glued to every speck of news that is around. This is just Apple being Apple. They have done this shit for decades now. They fuck up something royal then gaslight you into thinking it is 'ok'. Its not.
and to those I say tough cookie
To them I say give them their money back. I would accept a defective product and neither should you. But maybe you are just holding your phone wrong?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday December 30 2018, @01:06AM
Not everyone reads the tech news with breathless anticipation. Unless Apple indicates the possibility that the pad may be bent and that they will not consider that a defect on the packaging and in the ad material, buyers may be in for a surprise and they are entitled to a refund or replacement.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @07:42PM (8 children)
It's taken me a while, but I've come to terms with the fact that I'm no longer in Apple's target market. I like wired headphones. I don't need a phone the size of my head. I don't think a tablet is a computer. I don't want my phone to scan my face. I don't even really want my computer glued to the back of a monitor (at least our royal masters at Apple threw us peasants a bone and updated the mac mini). A glossy-screened monitor at that.
I don't know who Apple is trying to sell their products to, but it isn't me anymore. Oh well, I guess Google will soon be tracking my every movement, from the bedroom to the kitchen and back (the joys of being a shut-in), as soon as my current iPhone dies. Apple won't miss me, and I won't miss them either.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:21PM (7 children)
Judging by the people I see hanging out in the Apple stores in my area lately, the apple advertisements, and general apple promotional material, I am certainly not in Apple's target demographic anymore either because:
-I'm white
-I'm male
-I'm straight
-I'm old enough to remember when Arnold was just a bodybuilder.
-I have no beard or a mini-Mohawk
-I do not dye my hair red, green, pink, orange, or blue.
-I do not have any neck-to-finger or neck-to-toe tattoos
-I am not hideously overweight
-I like USB-A ports
-I hate dongles
-I like function keys
-I like using my own batteries in my mouse
-I like a keyboard that doesn't feel like I'm typing on a sponge
-I don't think I should have to break apart glued seals in order to change my HD or CPU.
-I don't think 5000 more emojiis is a compelling feature to upgrade my OS.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:40PM (1 child)
USB Type-A ports are probably going to be completely phased out on most laptops within a few years. Lately I've been seeing laptops packing 2 of each kind, but you can fit more USB Type-C ports on a laptop and make the laptop thinner.
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday December 30 2018, @07:51PM
I don't want thinner! Thinner means more fragile, as TFA shows, unless someone wants to make the entire laptop case out of metal, which they won't because it's too expensive and heavy.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:55PM
Let me guess: you're an accountant.
(Score: 4, Funny) by fyngyrz on Saturday December 29 2018, @10:10PM (2 children)
Well, and there's this. [flickr.com]
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I scream, you scream, the police come, it's awkward.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by crafoo on Saturday December 29 2018, @10:55PM
It's really quite incredible how bad that design is. But then, Apple mice have always been trash.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Saturday December 29 2018, @11:02PM
They have to be laughing their asses off. They do something so overtly insane, and people keep on buying... Fascinating...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday December 29 2018, @10:58PM
here's two you could add to the list:
- nearly permanent, humorless, mouth-breathing grin
- 0% muscle mass and malnourishment from the latest socially and ecologically conscious diet
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @01:04AM (1 child)
"Given enough money, everyone is bent." from' The Italian Job'
And Apple victims are loaded with cash.
(Score: 2) by Kalas on Sunday December 30 2018, @08:34AM
Or at least were formerly loaded in cash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @03:47AM
You won't spill your coke that way, especially when you hit turbulence. I heard the new iPads/Phones come with plastic blades now, with just the right curve for the screen.
(Score: 2, Funny) by easyTree on Sunday December 30 2018, @09:51PM
"Oh shit"
"What's wrong?"
"The whole run, all ten million are BENT. We are fucked."
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit"
"It's a feature not a fault!"
"They'll never go for it"
"wtf? they buy a new device every six months which differs only in an 'S' suffix!"
"Muhahaha; ker-ching; ker-ching"