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After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

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Re: After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

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That nVidia GPU issue was a design flaw on nVidia's part that nVidia refused to take responsibility for. The problem is that normal use and wear and tear over time would lead to the GPU physically failing, leading to a non-bootable system and necessitating a whole new logic board. Apple had a long standing special service program of covering (very expensive) logic board replacements for all of those MacBook Pros that…

Apple was supposed to vet them. I expect that answer from razer. Only took a few years for them to admit it failed under normal use, by that time it was long outdated. I don't pretend waiting at the apple store is a luxury anymore. The brand is tainted to me.

Dell, HP, and Compaq were also affected by the issue. The issue was with the die packaging, nearly impossible to catch post-production.

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/10/nvidia-settle...

Re: After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

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The original Apple TV was released in 2007, over sixteen years ago. How much time should we give it?

I would suggest we wait until you realize that advertising in 2007 was nothing like advertising in 2023, so counting the first 5-10 years is wholly inaccurate. You may feel differently about that, since you're defending a company you apparently have loyalty to. GL with that.

It's entirely possible to say someone is wrong without loving what they are wrong about.

Nevertheless, ignoring the first ten years--which is your high estimate--how long should we wait past that?

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