Comment on Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?

Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are all anti-consumer though. Which mainstream brand is truly on the side of the consumer?

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  • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    None are. We can’t have that world.

    But whether due to incompetence, lack of monopoly or a trace of human soul, most mainstream brands don’t harm consumer rights as effectively as Apple do.

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    • ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you high? Microsoft got sued for over a decade of price fixing: www.thatsuitemoney.ca

      Google betrayed the trust of its search engine users by bumping up its own products: washingtonpost.com/…/google-search-antitrust-laws…

      Yeah. The competition is so righteous.

      Hate Apple all you want, you don’t even need a reason. But don’t sit there and tell me with a straight face other companies are somehow “better.”

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      • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You seem to have inserted a lot of opinions between what I wrote and what you choose to reply to.

        If that’s your idea of fun, go for it, but I refuse to role-play into it.

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      • AmidFuror@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        [...] most mainstream brands don’t harm consumer rights as effectively as Apple do.

        The commenter's point was well qualified. They are lesser evils. Listing bad things they have done doesn't really quantify it.

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• z1n@lmmy.co.za ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Microsoft and Google are no different these days. In fact, they’ve always been this way.

  Simply buy and use the tools that work best for yourself based on your experiences, as per OP.

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• n1ckn4m3@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ^ Exactly this. I was an Apple fanboy (perhaps even shill) until the iPhone 5S when my device had a bad NAND chip causing it to randomly and sporadically blue screen and reboot (as a PC user, the blue screen irony was not lost on me) and Apple jerked me around for 3 months until the phone was out of warranty and then told me I should have bought Apple Care on the phone even though the issue started before the 1 year warranty had expired.

  I didn't find this acceptable as I had written proof I'd taken the phone in to the shop multiple times during the warranty period, ended up calling their corporate office of the president where they worked with me to generate logs from the device and send them to Apple techs who would review it, at which point they came back and said "yeah it looks like the NAND chip is bad" and "but it's out of warranty". When I told the person from Apple this was ridiculous because I'd been an Apple customer for decades and I'd had umpteen Macs and Macbook laptops and iPhones and I'd never had this problem, she cut me off and said "Apple doesn't have a customer loyalty program, sir"

  I took the 5S out to my driveway and smashed it with a hammer and went and bought a $200 HTC One E8 and I've been an Android user ever since and will never give Apple a penny if I can avoid it.

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• spckls@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Whole point of the post is to get opinios from other people. There is no story, just my general observations about the software/hardware

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