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Post by Admin on Aug 3, 2013 10:18:50 GMT
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Post by Leo on Aug 9, 2013 2:51:03 GMT
Good, I hope they sue the arse off Apple. Apple products are shoddily made con tricks. All shiny and well presented with cheap Chinese components inside. I saved up and bought an expensive (for me) touch ipod a little over a year ago, and no sooner had the warranty run out - it stopped working. It is a small fault, but expenisve to fix, as you cannot open an ipad to replace components. They are crimped together and sealed with silicone. I will never buy anothe Apple product. |
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 12, 2013 13:48:52 GMT
Good, I hope they sue the arse off Apple. Apple products are shoddily made con tricks. All shiny and well presented with cheap Chinese components inside. I saved up and bought an expensive (for me) touch ipod a little over a year ago, and no sooner had the warranty run out - it stopped working. It is a small fault, but expenisve to fix, as you cannot open an ipad to replace components. They are crimped together and sealed with silicone. I will never buy anothe Apple product. Leaves a person to wonder if the ipod was programmed to fail (which can be done) when the warranty ran out. If such programming does exist then would it automatically adjust if an extended warranty was purchased? Now that's a conspiracy theory worthy of considering. LOL |
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Post by cenydd on Aug 12, 2013 14:11:49 GMT
Things being built to last one day more than their warranty has long been a significant issue on the electrical and electronic industries anyway - they really don't build them like they used to!
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 13, 2013 9:48:46 GMT
Planned obsolescence is well known to occur although it doesn't typically refer to planned failure and it costs society trillions of dollars over time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
In the computer software industry we see this occuring all of the time where "new versions" of software are created for functionally adequate software all of the time. The software developers add features that virtually none of us use simply to "upgrade" the software to sell new software. Yes, perhaps 1 in 1000 users might use the new features but most don't and even those that do use the features rarely do.
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