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crowley said:

samrod said:

crowley said:

Kill the product, own it as a mistake, and work with Google on a solution to digital stalking that works across both platforms for as many tracking devices as possible.

Can't believe Apple were so stupid as to think this was a path worth walking.

Knives, guns, baseball bats, and cars are often used as weapons. Computers and phones are used by criminals to commit a wide variety of crimes. 

Unless you're trolling, I don't understand your logic. Why kill a successful product because it's abused by only a fraction of a fraction of users?

Because the abuse massively outweighs the benefit.  A million people being able to find their keys a bit easier is no tradeoff for a single person being stalked.

You sound like George now. Sad. Can you show us where "the abuse massively outweighs the benefit"?

I personally have 4 and know many people with them who have not suffered any abuse. In fact, I just bought 4 more that I need to set up. Of course, my anecdotal evidence does not negate others being abused by passive technology, but you claimed that it massively outweighs so let's see the evidence to back that up. But if you're really going down that rabbit route should we also ban the Apple Watch, iPhone, Mac, and any other Appel tech that has shown that it occasionally be used by bad actors for nefarious reasons? Seems ridiculous to suggest such a thing, but that's just me.

Rayz2016 said:

lkrupp said:

I hitched a ride on Apple’s bandwagon in 1982 with an Apple ][+ and have never looked back. There’s something about the company even today that I find fascinating. Now that Apple is a trillion dollar company it has its problems and foibles but at the core it’s still the company it was in the early days. In my now 38 years on the bandwagon I have been treated well by Apple in both purchases and repairs. They fixed my late 2013 27”  iMac when the spring assembly holding the head up broke, long out of warranty, at no charge, with apologies. They fixed my water cooled G5, also at no charge. And they replaced my Power Mac 8100 immediately when the power supply failed, no questions asked. 

You're clearly one of a kind.

If you ask people around here, walking into an Apple Store is just asking to have your dog shot.

All his examples are from many years ago. I won't speculate on this post as to why, but how Apple Stores see customers has changed. It's too disjointed for my liking and I haven't been in there for several years now—even with an appointment—without feeling like I was standing around wondering if I was ever going to be seen.

The exception was during the pandemic when stores had you queue up outside and they'd come down the line asking you why you were there. That was usually a line to buy something without an appointment in which case they'd go get it or lead you to it when a customer had left, or you were lead to the Genius Bar for your appointment when your tech was ready. They usually had coffee outside, too.

For the Macs lkrupp is talking about I have plenty of stores about customer service that made going to an Apple store with an issue an enjoyable experience, but now even shopping in-store I desperately try to avoid.

benji888 said:

It was Apple Computer Inc. until iPod and music became popular, then, sometime before the iPhone it became Apple corporation and they changed the logo from rainbow to solid, they dropped Computer from the name when marketing focus moved off computers. ...the article refers to Apple corporation when it was Apple Computer Inc.

Your timelines and memory seem a bit off.

Jobs left Apple on 16 September 1985 and returned as interim CEO (iCEO) that same day in 1997. The rainbow logo remained until 1998 (so soon after Jobs returned to the helm) and probably inline with the release of the iMac 3G. The iPod won't ship until the last quarter of 2001, years after that logo was in place.

There are also other logos. The first one sucked monkey balls.



As for the name, it was originally Apple Computer Company where it was founded on this day in 1976, not Apple Computer Inc. Incorporation and the slight name change didn't happen until some time the next year.

The switch from Apple Computer Inc. to Apple Inc. happened the same day as the historic iPhone announcement at Macworld Expo on January 9, 2007. Jobs did not say that they moved focus off computers—their Macs have never been better, but "because the company had shifted its emphasis from computers to consumer electronics."

I'd argue that consumer electronics, especially the iPhone and iPad, are computers, but you, like countless others, see the word "computer" as only meaning a Mac or PC or server, and likely don't see "PC" as also referring to a Mac or another personal computing device. Apple clearly makes the most popular personal computing devices, but IBM creation of the IBM PC killed Apple's desire to associate with the PC nomenclature.

freeassociate2 said:

regurgitatedcoprolite said:

It’s hilarious to watch some of the “YouTubers” out there gnash their teeth and complain about how difficult it is to take apart a Mac Studio. 

It’s clear to me that none of them have ever worked on a car, where one has to do things lying on his back, deal with grease and oil, etc. 

Computers are easy if one takes his time, organizes parts, and has any mechanical ability. 

Thank you for pointing that out. (As I’ve replaced a seized front wheel bearing in three feet of snow.)

I especially find it funny when places like iFixit cry “oh no! Dang proprietary screws!” even though they seem capable of selling me pricey repair kits for those screws … that conform the specs of international standards. (I have yet to see an apple logo shaped proprietary screw head.) Honestly, in my years of working on houses, cars, trains, and all manner of “repairable” things, I’ve found that most of them have connector mechanisms that aren’t just a #2 Philips. Western civilization has fallen! My kingdom for a T15! Oh no! A locking nut! 

It really boggles the mind some times.

I just watched the video and their text seems to parrot the video to the word. All I can see is that it uses Torx. No one complained. No one was upset. As for selling kits, yes they do which is why point out what tools are needed and where. It's their business model to sell tools and parts while giving away the instructions for self repair so it would silly of them not to point out tools that are needed, especially if it's not a tool people are likely to have at home. 🤦‍♂️

muthuk_vanalingam said:

Xed said:

slow n easy said:

Xed said:

Remember when that old anti-Trump, pro-Putin invading Ukraine guy on here said that you should never listen to the Apple Watch saying anything about ECG readings because it was just a fashion accessory and only a single-lead ECG that could never amount to a real-world use that could lead to saving lives? I do.

Your comment is very contradictory. Trump is very pro Putin and very frequently praises him and says nice things about Russia. Also, why bring politics into a non politics story. Also, how do you know that the guy is even old when the ECG feature didn’t even come out that long ago?

My post is factual. You’ll have to ask the poster to whom I’m referring why he’s so contradictory. 

 But he (GeorgeBMac) is already banned by AI and he can't respond back to your post. So you can give it a rest now.

When and why did that happen? I figured he was tilting at some other windmill for the time being.