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Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement

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Re: Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement

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Post by arvindch »

floatingatoll wrote: post #205
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #6

They’ve also quoted me more than a whole new pair to repair some AirPods Pro that I accidentally washed in the laundry. They didn’t tell me that was the case when I was on the phone with them. Apple uses a lot of customer hostile behaviors nowadays. Recently: * I canceled the Apple TV+ year trial that came with my iPhone. While, I believe, they require other apps to allow access until the trial ends, they ended my ac…

The replacement price issue there is probably both a protection against resellers and an incorporation of an expedite fee. AirPods are made of three components: left earbud, right earbud, and charging case. More granular repairs are neither offered nor possible due to glues and so forth, though damaged parts can be recycled for scrap. So repairs can only replace those three parts in total, and perform no other purpos…

I find it hard to believe that Apple overcharges all of its customers, just to combat the minority of scammers. Just seems so unbalanced...

Also, aren't waiting lists usually due to manufacturing latency? Not arbitrary delays that can be bypassed via purchasing repairs? Moreover, no one can assemble a Macbook/iPad/iPhone by ordering replacement parts. Your example only holds good for Airpods.

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Post by tandr »

freeqaz wrote: post #28
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #6

They’ve also quoted me more than a whole new pair to repair some AirPods Pro that I accidentally washed in the laundry. They didn’t tell me that was the case when I was on the phone with them. Apple uses a lot of customer hostile behaviors nowadays. Recently: * I canceled the Apple TV+ year trial that came with my iPhone. While, I believe, they require other apps to allow access until the trial ends, they ended my ac…

I just swapped from Android to an iPhone for privacy concerns. The other side of the fence is pretty user hostile as well. Google makes you disable a lot of functionality on the phone if you try to get out of their invasive tracking. And they are constantly nuking apps that I use like Google Play Music and Google Inbox. Maybe check out PinePhone if you're interested in hacking something together!

Yeah, death of Google Play Music will be remembered, and mentioned in the same saga as Google Reader's demise.

I would love to know how many subscribers of Google Music have they lost during this transition to YouTube music. Not that I think Google actually cares, and seeing how big companies BS themselves from inside, they probably sooth themselves with "it is temporary", "we will catch up on features", "they will come back".

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Post by rograndom »

I have a iPhone 5s that I only replaced because of battery issues. It's been sitting in my drawer for a couple of years and thought it would be good to hand off to one of the kids as a mp3 player or something. When Apple was running a deal on battery replacements I sent it in for that. I got a call saying that it has water damage and the main board was inoperable. I could have it repaired for $600 or they could recycle it for me for $25. Sending it back to me was not an option. It took 2 escalations to get someone who could authorize returning it as I was unwilling to pay for either of those options. It's now back in my desk.

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Post by dylan604 »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #195
dylan604 wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is anything Android Google free? Is Android its own separate entity not under the Google/Alphabet lineage? This has kept me from seriously considering Android as something I could ever use.

They don’t mean it’s Android with no relation to Google; they mean that it’s Android with the Google parts removed .

I guess I'm asking what part of Android is not Google? I get trying to detach apps like GMail, Maps, PlayStore, etc. But if Google created Android, why is it assumed to be okay of doing Googly things?

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Post by LegitShady »

tandr wrote: post #212
freeqaz wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just swapped from Android to an iPhone for privacy concerns. The other side of the fence is pretty user hostile as well. Google makes you disable a lot of functionality on the phone if you try to get out of their invasive tracking. And they are constantly nuking apps that I use like Google Play Music and Google Inbox. Maybe check out PinePhone if you're interested in hacking something together!

Yeah, death of Google Play Music will be remembered, and mentioned in the same saga as Google Reader's demise. I would love to know how many subscribers of Google Music have they lost during this transition to YouTube music. Not that I think Google actually cares, and seeing how big companies BS themselves from inside, they probably sooth themselves with "it is temporary", "we will catch up on features", "they will c…

Everyone who paid for Google music for moved over to YouTube music. I don't think they've lost much yet. I hate the YouTube music app but the music and playlists are still there.

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Post by Hamuko »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #196
Hamuko wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They’ve also quoted me more than a whole new pair to repair some AirPods Pro that I accidentally washed in the laundry. Weird considering that the AirPods are not repairable. They just replace them.

That’s probably why they quoted OP at full price. They were just going to sell them a new set.

But it says "more than a whole new pair". So not full price, more than full price. Which makes no sense whatsoever.

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Post by vidanay »

tandr wrote: post #212
freeqaz wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just swapped from Android to an iPhone for privacy concerns. The other side of the fence is pretty user hostile as well. Google makes you disable a lot of functionality on the phone if you try to get out of their invasive tracking. And they are constantly nuking apps that I use like Google Play Music and Google Inbox. Maybe check out PinePhone if you're interested in hacking something together!

Yeah, death of Google Play Music will be remembered, and mentioned in the same saga as Google Reader's demise. I would love to know how many subscribers of Google Music have they lost during this transition to YouTube music. Not that I think Google actually cares, and seeing how big companies BS themselves from inside, they probably sooth themselves with "it is temporary", "we will catch up on features", "they will c…

They lost me (I switched to Spotify), the problem is that now that I have cancelled my YouTube premium, YT is INCREDIBLY PAINFUL with ads.

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Post by jdashg »

ntsplnkv2 wrote: post #208
SebastianKra wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they are generally not. It's just that there's so much unethical _shit_ to keep track of, that you have no chance to even know half of it. And even if you do, what can you do about it? Switch to another company? [1] The amount of effort that I need spend just to fight only _some_ of the unethical behavior in my area of expertise is already high. Just imagine the issues in other fields which I don't know about. [1…

Seems to be this massive untapped market of people who are upset with their options. Or the reality is most people don't care as long as they can check instagram and open tiktok. What is more likely?

It's both: People are upset but they lack agency, so they deal.

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Post by em-bee »

dylan604 wrote: post #215
colejohnson66 wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don’t mean it’s Android with no relation to Google; they mean that it’s Android with the Google parts removed .

I guess I'm asking what part of Android is not Google? I get trying to detach apps like GMail, Maps, PlayStore, etc. But if Google created Android, why is it assumed to be okay of doing Googly things?

the concern is not code written by google, but code that depends on googles infrastructure, requires a google account, phones home, gives google control over my phone, is not released under a FOSS license (so i can't change it), anything that violates the users privacy...

so what /e/ is doing is essentially an audit of android, and an attempt to remove everything that is of concern.

it's a major project, and it's not complete. work in progress.

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