This is modern day apple, when looking at price the user needs to look at the cost of something going wrong. What’s the price of replacing a battery designed to be replaceable only by apple and never the user? What about a screen that apple refuses to send the cheap repair parts out to authorized repair specialists? What’s the price of replacing a bad ram stick that’s been soldered in, or a bad SSD that has been keyed to your specific model for no reason? Or the price of a new dongle?
Etc.
These days it seems like apple products “just work” because if they don’t you’re out of luck and should just buy a new one.
SO fucking true. I love my mid-2012 MacBook Pro. I have replaced the battery, and the screen, and the fan as maintenance, and swapped out the HD for an SSD and upgraded the RAM for performance. I did that for the cost of parts, and could find pretty cheap used parts. But still, it is seven years old, and I know I can't reasonably expect more than another year or maybe two out of it.
Died today at eight and a half. A new, faster, better, and surely inferior replacement is on the way.
Jebus Crispy Fucknuggets, don't ever turn on Find My iPhone with an Apple ID you might conceivably forget. Mrs. Puppet is somewhat technologically challenged (not like Boomer level challenged, but still), and I found out too late that she'd locked up her 8+ when we tried to transfer it to a new carrier (DIAF, AT&T ). My phone & Li'l Puppet's were fine.
You can reset it with other Apple devices that were ever associated with the Apple ID, but (I thought) the only one was her old 5s, which received the reset notification, asked me to allow it, and then did nothing. Following was a frustratingly stupid comedy of errors, where it looked like we'd get it unlocked, but then the last step of the process NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED. Up to and including the 5-ish-day wait for a forced reset after providing all available info. The text I was supposed to get just never came, and when I called Apple back, they said that means you just have to try all over again.
Then, a day after dashing myself against the last brick wall I could find, Mrs. Puppet discovered her iPad. Boom, follow the same instructions once, and done. Phone unlocked. Then I needed an actual brick wall.
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This has more to do with some Apple/carrier backseat fingerfucking than Apple, but it is surprisingly difficult to just buy a phone. I am happy with my plan. It meets my needs, is no longer offered, and has the optimal layering of corporate discounts. I do not want to change it or do anything to disrupt it. When they force me to change it, I want to be able to extract still more discounts for a better plan. I don't want to pay for the phone in 30 installments on my phone bill. I don't want to pay extra to be able to upgrade to the next phone when it's available. I just want to buy a new phone at the retail cost.
Retailers like Best Buy, Target, etc. will not just sell me a new phone. Can't do it. I would have to upgrade my plan. AT&T and Apple will if I pay an "activation fee" to AT&T. But I don't know what is being activated. The only thing I can think of is that I - me, doing the labor personally and by myself, and not Apple or AT&T - am just moving a SIM card from my current phone to my new phone and turning the phone on. For this I have to pay $30 extra.
A guy by the name of Antonio García Martínez wrote a book called Chaos Monkeys, a memoir about his time in Silicon Valley and specifically Facebook, just got hired by Apple. It appears this book has disparaging language about women and some nationalities. Some Apple employees have read the book, and wondered publicly how this person actually got hired. He has now been fired.
The article and related article has a few choice quotes from the book. If I had read the book, I wouldn't hire him.
Yep, I've used a different weather app for quite some time, after the Apple one lied to me too damned much. This one (AccuWeather) only lies about half as much.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Died today at eight and a half. A new, faster, better, and surely inferior replacement is on the way.
). My phone & Li'l Puppet's were fine.
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about that two days ago when my mouse died.
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