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US shoppers increasingly buying iPhones from carriers instead of Apple
Your last sentence is the very definition of carrier stores!tzeshan said:
I agree. Restocking means you are returning a product not replacing a defective product with a good one. This shows the store employee is inept.retrogusto said:I think for some plans you have to buy the phone directly from the carrier, unfortunately.
My mother bought a 128gb 6s from AT&T (and I was with her), and when they gave it to her the box was open and it was covered with greasy fingerprints. She hesitantly accepted it, but there was something very wrong with that phone, and they refused to replace it with a new non-defective one without charging her a "restocking fee," even though she told them that was illegal, and eventually even went beck to the store with a printout of the law prohibiting the practice. They were just horrible to her. And should they really be "restocking" a defective phone anyway? Eventually she was able to get the Apple store to replace it for her, and her new one is great, but I would definitely go well out of my way to never buy a phone directly from AT&T after that experience.
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US shoppers increasingly buying iPhones from carriers instead of Apple
My carrier has NEVER done anything for me except try to rob me blind while making doing business with them as hard and as costly as possible.
As soon as my current contract with them is up, I'll be upgrading via Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program. I'll NEVER buy a phone through a carrier again, even if it's a cheaper deal than Apple offers.
You have to earn my loyalty, and none of the carriers have ever done anything to try to do that; Apple has!
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Take a stand against the Obama/FBI anti-encryption charm offensive
Apple (and I suspect many other device manufacturers) have no desire to hold decryption keys. They want your information to be yours and yours alone.mikegalloway said:There is a possible solution, maybe difficult, but if Apple could create a unique hardware based encryption key for every individual device, this could then be split in two, Apple could hold one half of the key and the other half could be held by FBI/Government/other agency. The two halves of the key could only bought together with a court order and the physical presence of the device. Even if both halves of the keys were stolen it would be useless with out the actual physical device.
Not having possession of the key is why Apple can't just open the San Bernardino iPhone. The FBI isn't asking Apple to decrypt the iPhone; they are asking for Apple to write software to eliminate all the security protections so the FBI can brute force (try every possible combination until they find the right one) the iPhone. Surely the FBI can't be stupid enough to not understand that software to eliminate security protections on one iPhone can be used to eliminate them on ANY AND EVERY iPhone. And it WILL leak and be used if it's created.
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Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt spotted snapping pics with an Apple iPhone
When you use the very best how can you not hate all the ripoffs, also-rans, and just plain junk that other platforms push? I've used most of that other stuff, and refuse to be a masochist any longer.bulldogs said:The reality: the hatred for other platforms and insistence on only using a single one is absolutely, definitely an Apple thing only.
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Law enforcement groups, San Bernardino victims file in support of government in Apple vs FBI row
If Apple loses this case it will be hard to find a criminal's or terrorist's iPhone which won't contain foreign encryption software!
