Curious Pineapple

Oh, what an occurance.

At the expense of any way to backup or save data without using a 3rd party service. No thanks, I'd rather have a piece of wire and just copy and paste with the added bonus of faster charging and no toaster. Edit: wireless charging and a port are not mutually exclusive. Can still have the "plop it down to charge" wireless and the port for fast charging and data backups. Unless this is a ploy to actually be truthful when Apple say you can't recover data

It's slow, wastes energy and offers no real advantage to the customer apart from having to buy yet more hardware. I really hope it's just more baseless shite, I really do.

What I don't get is why is it possible to gain external access to security certificates anyway? Surely the safest option is to keep that certificate on an offline machine, you only need to use it once per build. Not exactly a labourious task to format a USB drive, copy the project over, do whatever needs doing, then copy it back.

I can see "have you backed the device up?" turning into "have you burned yourself whilst backing the device up?" when taking it in for it's 3rd forced recall as the charging has busted again.

The card will work fine, but the back plate may be half height.

It's just a credit agreement here, you're buying the device at a discounted rate with 0% interest. It's owned by the customer just as any other credit purchase. The carrier has no control over the device beyond pre-installing applications and custom boot logo's. They used to all be carrier locked but I think most have given up with that one. I know Three (my provider) don't lock any devices any more, even the subsidised pay as you go handsets.

Not sure about anywhere else but in the UK we rarely buy devices upfront, instead they come with a 2 year contract and at the end we get the choice of a new phone and deal, cut ties and move provider or keep the same service plan but stop paying the device cost. Most people just get a new phone every 2 years or so. Keeping support for 5 years caters to the few here, we're overflowing with 2 year old phones that are perfectly usable but just got replaced as part of an "upgrade".

You could always use Game Pass to get access to quite a few good games. No AAA titles on there though.

Stolen credit card and Epic/Steam?

Fuck a bucket!

Someone got sponsored?

They're chatting shite based on a personal experience from the early days of Android and a seemingly deep rooted love of the bleached fruit. Android is a piece of piss to develop for, but every point about it gets ignored.

$850 to repair when it falls off your face and breaks?

Designing a machine that can only take a 7mm drive instead of a 9.5 for no reason other than selling their own single platter drives is very consumerist though! I took a file and Dremel to a Mac Mini to replace the HDD, was only a plastic frame preventing the larger drives going in. They have built up a userbase of people that will literally line up for hours to get a new iPhone, that will go crying to the Apple Store whenever their Macbook resets itself for no reason and buy every pointless piece of crap they come out with. Why on earth would they want those people to realise that all they are selling is bog standard electronic components than have no real value over the competitors other than a pretty logo and a batshit crazy price? Sure at the high end you do get some decent value (for a prebuilt), if we ignore the compulsary but not included VESA adaptors/stands and wheels that you could have custom made for less. You pay for form over function with Apple, and that's something I've never seen the appeal of. I remember when HD monitors first appeared it was pointed out that Apple used the additional resolution to make icons and the OS look better whilst Microsoft just made everything smaller on-screen. Guess which one actually took advantage of the extra pixels out of the box? Whilst MacOS by default had everything the same size on screen just with more pixels, Windows had more screen space to use, I had a Hackintosh at the time on a PoS Atom ITX board. I own many Apple products, the only ones that still works properly are my iPhone 3G, although that has Android on it, and an iPod shuffle (2nd gen?). The inch square one with a combined USB and headphone jack.

I wrote an iOS app without a Mac, or MacOS. Am I magic? Apart from the fact that you just plug a device in via USB and deploy it within seconds. No need for a simulator. Why bother with a simulated device when you most likely own an actual one anyway. I would have no issue deploying an application to any Android device I needed to. Enable ADB over WiFi or USB and hit the debug button. Done.

Because so many people believe that an entire board is cheaper and easier than a capacitor I'd throw away if I dropped it, they get away with it. Pull the shite Apple does in industry and you loose customers. Industry doesn't have brand loyalty. By industry I don't mean a bunch of video editors having a breakdown because you asked them to use a different tool, or a mouse with more than 1 button. I mean companies that you call when you need an oil rig. The equipment we manufacture doesn't cause a minor inconvenience if it fucks up during use, it can literally turn an oil pipeline or nuclear reactor into scrap. We still use through hole components in hand assembled boards because it's reliable. And yeh, we do board level repairs, we even have 25 year old test rigs (and spare parts) just in case an old product comes in for repair. We even sell individual components to customers if they want to do a repair themselves. But yeh, Apple can't supply a 30CM cable because an entire board is cheaper..

Data recovery is never sold as guaranteed, there's no base for a legal case. Many firms don't even charge if you don't get your data back. Apple makes more profit in a £700 board than a $50 cable, you can't fanny around that, especially when the machine new is not much more. Hell them cables cost less than a coffee to manufacture. There has been many independant undercover investigations, and Apple get sued for it, a lot. Funny that they got fined in Australia for selling customers refurb iPhones as theirs were "beyond repair", then selling that same device as a refurb to the next customer with the same fault. I guess they just paid up even though they did nothing wrong. "lowering the number of procedures a technician needs to learn". Jesus christ if your "technician" can't replace a pissing cable (that by the way will need removing and replacing to change out a board), then they probably had a lobotomy at some point in the past and shouldn't be trusted with a bluntened wooden spoon. I work in design and manufacturing in the electronics industry. Many of the mistakes made in Apple products are just bad design choices that anyone reading basic datasheets will avoid (such as not putting 50V 0.5mm from the CPU vCore).

They were damaged screens. The LCD was fine but the digitizers were damaged, so they fitted new digitizers to the Apple displays, removed the Apple logo and sold them as refurbished. Apple claimed thay by having a genuine display, they were counterfeit even though they were sold and priced as refurbished. The argument was there may be an Apple logo somewhwere on the assembly and that may "fool" customers into thinking they were genuine new units. Utter bullshit but they get away with it.

They but them to rip apart, but won;t be selling genuine parts on. They'd probably get sued for counterfeiting them.

No-one gets Apple screens apart from Apple. You're either buying an aftermarket, or going to apple bending over (and probably getting the water damage bullshit).

Well he is right, Apple doesn't want to replace a cable when they can shaft the customer for half a machine. They don't want to replace a failed tantalum capacitor (not even JUST to allow the customer to backup their drive), they would rather sell you a new board. What liabilites for data recovery?

BMW pull the same shit. Over complicated designs that seemingly exist just to make repair harder, expensive parts that only they can provide, they even go as far as to have AMP/Tyco make custom versions of standard automotive connectors just so they are the only vendor for new assemblies. Even after years of putting a standard OBD interface on cars, when it came to bikes they made up their own protocols just because there was no regulations stating they had to be compliant. ISO14230 with different addresses and different commands. Same ECU on another manufacturers bike? Just followed the industry standard as it was easier. Sub-standard quality for the price and design choices that make you wonder who designed the things. Stevie Wonder? The R1150 and R1200 series being a boxer engine always had one cylinder higher than the other when on a side stand. One head filled with oil whilst the other was starved when started after being left standing. Of course, the issues only appeared after the warranty period had expired. At least they repaired peoples engines for labour cost only, didn't claim it was water damage or any shit like that

@LAwLz Yup that's what I meant. Wanted either an older Android device with AOA2.0 support, or an iPhone/iPod that I can use with my car stereo for music. As for some reason Apple devices stay stupidly expensive even when they're obsolete, and I'm not spending that kind of money on a 5 year old piece of shit that is going to be a glorified MP3 player, I got out my iPod Video (which is broken due to a common fault, previously repaired by Apple with a piece of fucking rubber jammed under the DAC) and used that instead. Deezer will run on a Galaxy S2 even though it's 9 years old, when Apple decides that a device is no longer worth supporting, no new apps can run on the older device. Well, unless you simply edit the minimum version then it works fine because it's nothing but a softlock.

The plan was to try out the mobile and make sure it worked OK for gaming, by the time I got around to it I was past the 14 day cooling off period. Ended up renewing the fibre deal and just keeping the 4G for weekends away. Shit reception inside an aluminium caravan 6 miles from the nearest village.