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StrangeDays said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Truth to power. Apple has in the past built its products in sweatshops in China and only stopped when the word got out about it. They have also used student labor and forced labor. Periodically another sweat shop is discovered somewhere in the production chain and is corrected. Gervais is correct even if you don't want to believe it.

Currently right here in California, Apple is treating its contracted labor horribly compared to its employees.

Misleading. Apple has a zero tolerance policy for things like forced or debt-bonded labor. Right here:

"We have zero tolerance for debt-bonded labor. We prohibit forced labor of any kind, and suppliers must take immediate action or risk removal from our supply chain."

https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

...with details following. So if their contract suppliers try to do it, it simply isn't accurate to suggest that's a corporate value or policy of Apple to do it. Their suppliers aren't trustworthy and require constant monitoring and auditing. Which Apple does, of course.

But please, continue your steady drumming of anti-Apple narrative.

macxpress said:

jdw said:

The same weasel who ate the SD card slot is surely the source of these pops.  Even without the beloved slot, one still needs to pawn his winter coat to afford the machine.

POP!  There goes the weasel.

If you're trying to be funny, you failed miserably. 

corrections said:

lmac said:

One of DED's favorite forms of storytelling is rewriting history to make Apple and Jobs seem to have thought of everything, but let's remember that we don't write articles about flops. You never see DED defending the genius of Ping, the iTunes social network, or the Apple HiFi. Still, there are lots of things in this article that qualify as spin, or that are just plain false. 1) When the iPad came out, people were stunned that it was just a scaled up phone that couldn't make phone calls, and not a more capable device. They were correct about its early limitations. 2) The product name almost sunk the launch, with people comparing it to feminine hygiene products. 3) The predicted dominance of the eBook and magazine industry never came to pass. 4) Jobs totally missed the importance of the App Store and 3rd party apps, which came later, and really had much to do with the success of the device. 5) Job's insistence that a stylus and keyboard were unnecessary have since been reversed, so which is it? Is Apple on the wrong track today, or did Jobs get it wrong in the beginning? 6) The iPad push into the K12 classroom as a textbook replacement is over. Schools are replacing aging iPads with Chromebooks that cost less, are more rugged, easier to manage, and simply do more. 7) The one big thing Apple got right was to make the iPad the best tablet money can buy, and to keep making incremental improvements. Staying above the low-end competition is what Apple always does, but it paid off because the low end Android and Amazon tablets are clunky, sluggish, and non-intuitive in comparison.

Second, I have written about a series of unsuccessful concepts or product flops Apple has made, including Ping and iPod HiFi. There's even mention of Ping in this very article, making it a bizarre example for you to use in slandering what I write as "just plain false."

lkrupp said:

On the Apple Discussion Forums people are bitching about  not seeing the “free” subscription option on their recently purchased devices. I would imagine this has to do with warranty registration and which Apple ID is being used. I don’t know why so many people have multiple Apple IDs because all it does is muck things up in terms of subscriptions and purchases. Who bought what with what Apple ID?

rob53 said:

So how much IP will he be taking to the new company?