I HATE APPLE

Apple replaced my new iBook's motherboard while I was in Japan. That's hundreds of dollars worth, at no charge to me. Of course, it shouldn't have failed within six months in the first place...

That's why they charge you double upfront!

Because I don't believe in a company making you pay for a warantee that should be offered for free upfront. I was under the impression that a one-year warantee meant that if something goes wrong in the first year, they actually fix the thing, not put you on the phone with several douchebags who are trying to sell you additional warantees.

Shit, when the first warantee doesn't seem to work, why would I want to buy another one?

But it does sound like you have a problem with your serial number, Jay.

tho when i was waiting there, i did see todd oldham.

My tech experience with Apple has been sensational. A friend called me today to tell me that his mini iPod was replaced in less than five business days, and he also got the new generation mini in place of his old one that had died. No charge.

I've dealt with Dell and Gateway and their CSRs are no better than Apple's. HPs can blow me, they've sucked.

the desktop I have at work running XP has been up and alive for 2 years with barely any reboots. It does everything I want it to do, does it quickly, and I can navigate painlessly without ever touching the mouse if I feel like it.

I was raised on Apple and my first job was DTP on a Mac, followed by audio editing on a Mac, more DTP, and so on. OS 7+ had more than its share of problems and stupid quirks but the hardware was rock solid and at least its behavior was predictable.

Since getting my latest-edition powerbook I've put it through little more than I ever tried to do with my old OS

...OS

My old Quadra used to have a TV Tuner in it and be able to do image captures from live cable broadcasts, then I could import them into my cheap, incredibly easy to use paint program and do whatever with them. I believe it cost approximately half of what my laptop did! My laptop lets me chat and surf the internet. And rip CDs.

Well today it decided it wasn't going to wake up again, ever, as I'm being greeted with a totally white screen.

What's funny is that like doing searches on my own to try to figure out wtf this computer is doing right now (I mean not even the sad face x-eye Mac or the question mark Mac! NOTHING AT ALL! WHITE SCREEN! I know how to handle the other things!), everyone who is reporting similar issues to me is like bitching about how they have all this important blah blah blah they were doing with the Mac prior hand. Is it that no one who has this failure who is only using their Mac for chat, porn, and MP3s can be bothered to get in on the discussions, or is it because they don't die if that's all you use it for? Because yeah, it seems like my sleep problem increases tenfold whenever I've been using my iBook more for writing or photo work. If all I've done on the damn thing is use iChat for two weeks, no problems whatsoever with starting it up, back when it, uh, started up.

What does this imply??? Is there like some inherent instability in the majority of the "native" programs that come bundled with OSX or is this just really fucked up coincidence?

Also it seems that this particular issue with the iBook G3 was so bad they threw the whole "your warranty is expired, give us $500" shenanigans out the window, and searching on this same issue with "Powerbook" has not given me the same results--ARE IBOOKS PIECES OF SHIT? wtf?

*with the exception of my ancient PowerMac that I had when I was 14-15-16, which only died because my sister is a dick.

I am pretty close to deciding to become the female Punisher, except murdering computer firms, instead of bad guys.

And then kind of ran away????

That was pretty funny.

If Apple store in Clarendon cannot do anything for me worthwhile like, I will be coming back up to NYC and hitting u up on the favor, though. I like desperately, desperately need this to work ASAP.

Graphics are nonsense; I had that system and just customized the entire thing with graphics of my choice. Of my choice, since I was like 14 at the time, was like a bunch of lame ass Monty Python cartoons and/or Madonna album covers but what the fuck ever.

You know what else? This lamp-shaped iMac is stupid. There's no reason the screen needs to be this adjustable, and in fact with an LCD screen that has color-shifting problems, it's best if it doesn't move at all. It's only to make the computer more anthropomorphic, more... cute. So people will fall in love with the computer like it's a kitten. Crafty to the point of being kinda evil.

I have thought, on a few occasions, that OS7/8/9's desktop was more customizable than OSX's.

Maybe they are trying too hard to make things look pretty or cute and not spending enough time on making things sensible and working, anymore.

When I've been put off the G5 iMac as my next desktop computer because I hear too many stories about the power supply overheating thanks to them shoving everything in a thin white IKEA slab, it's time to reconsider the role "award-winning design" plays in your product development.

I kind of hate the OS X desktop. I have a menu bar, and a hard drive icon. I don't want a fucking DOCK, I never asked for a fucking DOCK, the whole rest of the computing world gets by without a DOCK. take that shit away and let me pick my own fonts. Dickholes.

In an office where multiple people are using the same computer and there's limited desk space the lamp iMacs have been terrific.

Hold down the trackpad button on startup.

I will be at a loss forever, though, as to why pressing F12 (the eject button) worked to eject The Marriage of Maria Braun not ten minutes earlier, but refused to work just now.

Any suggestions on the other stuff, besides setting the thing on fire?

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I'm in support of this. My 2011 macbook pro just kicked the bucket after very long service. I upgraded to a 2012 mbp for £90. I want to be able to watch my old DVDs and burn CDs.
Apple annoy me when they unilaterally decide that you, the user, are done with certain formats or ways of doing things.
I fell out with them when they closed Final Cut Pro and the associated apps and changed it to final cut X. I'd never trust them again and never bought an iPhone as a consequence.

you could get a new superdrive for $80

That's a good thought. I've still got a very weighty 2007 iBook that I use for occasional DVD use.

I'd never trust them again and never bought an iPhone as a consequence.

On the positive side, Apple provides support and updates for their iPhones for a longer period than most of their competitors.

Yeah, I'd already replaced the superdrive once, the hd twice, the cooling fan once and the battery three times. I can do it all over again so long as I can find the spares.

Apple provides support and updates for their iPhones for a longer period than most of their competitors

Fair point. My dad gave me his old iPhone 10 but it's still in a box. I'm typing on a Galaxy A6 that I paid off on contract years ago. I like the mini-jack and the sdcard slot; it's a glorified iPod. I didnt make it past 4th gen iPod. I started using my phone for music then.

I don't hate Apple but I loved them at a point in time and then they left me to go and do bigger things 😭

I remember when the super drive came out, it was like “this can do everything I need, I’ll never need anything else” lol

I still have and use my iPod for music. Its battery is fine

They sound better than the phones imho

Almost bought one of those transparent mod refurb ones

absolute psycho shit

Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create. pic.twitter.com/6PeGXNoKgG

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) May 7, 2024

whole lot of people angry about that commercial online due to the implication it's advocating throwing away traditional means of cultural production and cultural artifacts

honestly I think the ad agency people watched a bunch of those crush videos that get a lot of engagement on instagram/tiktok/etc
and were thinking "we're compressing this all into the iPad"

(I think it's not a good ad)

wow terrible ad

At least it's inspired by hydraulic press crushing videos instead of sexy feet crushing videos.

really upsetting ad

hahaha wow wtf were they thinking

honestly made me hate apple in a visceral way that not even years of dumb icloud bugs could manage

even the stablecoin techno optimist blue checks replying to that think it's bad

otm

The very existence of this ad⁠—all the hoops it had to go through in its creation before getting to the point where it was personally promoted by this CEO, all the people who thought 'yes, this is good'—says more than thousands of words could about how tech sees the world. https://t.co/tMrfrzsJ0n

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 8, 2024

there's even a little animated character that looks up in horror and then is presumably crushed??

Hasn't Apple's attitude toward creative people been "We will crush you and you will thank us" for like two decades at this point? It certainly feels that way, and it's not like I'm gonna stop using their products.

i always thought i'd find it impossibble to pivot away from using their products but my wife has successfully managed to do it relatively painlessly and i think i will try to follow her lead. awful, awful company.

no it's been "here's to the dreamers" and everybody's cool and boppin around and expressing their own unique bohemian identities via apple products. apple famously said their mission isn't to make great computers it's to change the world. i mean whatever their mission is obviously to make a shitload of money but this ad is just a leeeetle bit inconsistent

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really wonder if apple will turn into a kodak in our lifetime

they'll reach the 90s lows again until someone unveils the Futurama-style cryogenically preserved and reanimated Steve Jobs floating head

I could give up my iPhone for one of the clean Android phones but that's really just trading uncontrollable diarrhea for uncontrollable vomiting. Windows is a vast and baffling world, whenever I set a new one up for something I have to disable even more (Microsoft, not even third party) bloatware and garbage than with new Macs.

Maybe Linux nerds have been on to something this whole time.

feel like they could have done a better version of the crush ad by just crushing some apple desktops or macbooks. maybe crush tim cook too. but that'd be bad for the other apple products!

crush u2

(The band)

Ha, I love it. But I'll watch hydraulic crush videos for hours already.

they're very popular!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPh64MGfcBM

I saw someone point out they could make this a good advert by playing it in reverse.

Finally a replacement for "Lemmings" as the worst Apple ad ever.

Marques Brownlee reviews the new iPad, says...it's an iPad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0MGehwWvE

Read max had a good piece on that guy as the last tech blogger this week.

I’m old and only recently noticed him but it’s nice to see someone who’s on the reviews beat who isn’t epic bacon or a weirdo devotee. Just letting me know if things work and are worth my time

i liked that iPad review, seemed pretty honest and not overly dramatic
and, thankfully he stuck the product placement at the very end