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October 10th, 2012, 10:01 am

Quote"Any aluminum product may scratch or chip with use, exposing its natural silver color," Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for global marketing, wrote in the note, posted by 9to5Mac.com. "That is normal."Iphones and their users will always be a strange thing to me. What a bizarre dialog between a company and its customers. Here they are telling the customer that a product flaw is "normal." Why does the battery stop working? Any product with a battery that cannot be replaced may stop working. That is normal." Ah, ok. Thanks for explaining the world to me.I guess that satisfies any objection to the maps app. Any product that sucks will be unpleasant to use, that is normal. No other product in the world has such dumb users. They could buy a car without brakes, and then be lectured that any car without brakes will fail to stop, that is normal you dumb suckers!Those Apple people are pretty smart. I am sure they realize that building a phone that looks like junk in a few months saves them competing against ebay. They are now selling disposable printer cartridges, where the printer is a brain whose self esteem cannot function without the new iphone.
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October 10th, 2012, 11:05 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: farmerQuote"Any aluminum product may scratch or chip with use, exposing its natural silver color," Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for global marketing, wrote in the note, posted by 9to5Mac.com. "That is normal."Iphones and their users will always be a strange thing to me. What a bizarre dialog between a company and its customers. Here they are telling the customer that a product flaw is "normal." Why does the battery stop working? Any product with a battery that cannot be replaced may stop working. That is normal." Ah, ok. Thanks for explaining the world to me.I guess that satisfies any objection to the maps app. Any product that sucks will be unpleasant to use, that is normal. No other product in the world has such dumb users. They could buy a car without brakes, and then be lectured that any car without brakes will fail to stop, that is normal you dumb suckers!Those Apple people are pretty smart. I am sure they realize that building a phone that looks like junk in a few months saves them competing against ebay. They are now selling disposable printer cartridges, where the printer is a brain whose self esteem cannot function without the new iphone.You're doing SEO and online ads work, right?Want to make an educated guess which article will pull more money?a) "Nexus Galaxy Desire SL2 III Honeycomb Extreme edition's surface can scratch, as metals tend to scratch. A technical report."b) "The end of Apple: Massive Aluminum production failures entangle web of human rights abuses. The end of iPhone?"
 
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October 10th, 2012, 11:26 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: CrashedMinta) "Nexus Galaxy Desire SL2 III Honeycomb Extreme edition's surface can scratch, as metals tend to scratch. A technical report."b) "The end of Apple: Massive Aluminum production failures entangle web of human rights abuses. The end of iPhone?"I have a Galaxy, I have dropped it so many times from so high it has some scratches. But it doesn't matter. What kind of an idiot would buy a phone where if you scratch it, it matters? And I suspect you know, a used iphone will suffer much more depreciation in value than a Galaxy with the same scratch.I am not familiar with any phones other than iphone that pursue a flawless burnished metal look. I recently sold a droid3 that was black and had some scratches on metal. I wouldn't be surprised if they sold 100,000, 100,000 customers then went on to scratch them, and nobody at Motorola ever felt the need to explain scratches to their users.People can print what they want. But the fact that the VP of marketing actually had some response to this shows that the ridiculousness originates not with SEO click drivers, but with the company and their customers.
 
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October 10th, 2012, 5:15 pm

On aluminium.iPhone 5 Slowness
 
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October 22nd, 2012, 6:08 pm

 
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October 22nd, 2012, 6:56 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: Polterhttp://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10000872396390444657804578052944173096104-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwMTAyODE3Wj.htmlhttp://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/sa ... 5991939All the other USB connectors (and even Apple's old connector) SUCK. MicroUSB is the worst because it's balky to insert even when correctly oriented. I'm surprised it this many decades to create a symmetric connector.
 
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October 22nd, 2012, 7:03 pm

Ah, that could be just the projection's inaccuracy:
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October 23rd, 2012, 2:06 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: PolterAh, that could be just the projection's inaccuracy:If only the cord existed in 4-D space, then we'd never have any problems with tangles and knots!
 
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October 23rd, 2012, 4:07 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaIf only the cord existed in 4-D space, then we'd never have any problems with tangles and knots!Indeed! An idea for this thread, perhaps?
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October 24th, 2013, 8:41 pm

Business insider's fair review
 
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Burning IPhones by Amazon?
 
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February 23rd, 2016, 5:49 pm

Back to the future? It's all about battery life What's next?
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February 23rd, 2016, 7:14 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnBack to the future? It's all about battery life What's next?It's all about checking email, the weather, train schedules, and looking at attachments, sending messages, and posting on wilmott.The only reason that phone got good battery life was because it did almost nothing except phone calls.