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I didn't read the whole article, but it seemed focused on (missing) advertisements, not on counterfeits.
> I didn't read the whole article That's rectifiable.
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Normally Amazon bans your account (and that means you, personally, since it's difficult to open a second account) from ever using amazon.com ever again if you successfully charge back something. The only recourse is to pay them the charged back amount... Experienced this first hand with actual fraud that was reported to Amazon moments after it occurred, yet still received a lifetime ban until my fraud dispute was set…
I banned myself from using Amazon several years ago. I feel that if everyone did the same, the world would be a better place.
How so?
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I banned myself from using Amazon several years ago. I feel that if everyone did the same, the world would be a better place.
How so?
By instead having smaller companies/ local book shops, who don't treat their workers like shit (like not forcing them to pee in bottles because they cannot have breaks etc) and also are better for the environment (in my country - France - Amazon was caught regularly destroying tons of unsold goods because it was cheapest to do this that sending them back to the original seller).
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#144It sounds like Apple was upset about the counterfeit products being sold on Amazon and, after issuing hundreds of thousands of takedown notices threatened to sue Amazon themselves and reached an agreement where Amazon took measures to eliminate the counterfeits. The knock seems to be that they only did this for Apple products, not counterfeits of say Samsung phones because they were not pressured in similar ways by S…
Ok, there are two issues here: 1. Amazon refuses to hold themselves accountable for the products they sell—they advertise one thing but sell you another, clearly indicating they have no idea what they're actually selling. 2. Apple relies on legal protections to artificially inflate the pricing of their products. AirPods aren't much better than bluetooth headphones sold for a tenth the price, and they are straight-up…
I don't know of any third party options to Airpods that:
1. pair instantly without problems to my apple devices
2. intelligently know when to switch between my phone to my laptop
3. intelligently know when to switch from car bluetooth to headphones
4. is compatible with "Find My"
5. has magsafe charging
6. has same sound quality and sound cancellation with above features
these are all very important to me and my experience with literally any other non-apple device has been awful
Re: Apple asked Amazon to block rival ads
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, there are two issues here: 1. Amazon refuses to hold themselves accountable for the products they sell—they advertise one thing but sell you another, clearly indicating they have no idea what they're actually selling. 2. Apple relies on legal protections to artificially inflate the pricing of their products. AirPods aren't much better than bluetooth headphones sold for a tenth the price, and they are straight-up…
I don't know of any third party options to Airpods that: 1. pair instantly without problems to my apple devices 2. intelligently know when to switch between my phone to my laptop 3. intelligently know when to switch from car bluetooth to headphones 4. is compatible with "Find My" 5. has magsafe charging 6. has same sound quality and sound cancellation with above features these are all very important to me and my expe…
Transparency mode alone is a technological marvel.
It is extraordinarily difficult to do correctly, and once your brain has adapted to the Apple acoustic transformations, they’ve achieved near-indistinguishability.
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That sounds like using scale as an excuse.
The law is the problem. The law requires explicit knowledge, so Amazon can get away with it. I don’t agree with it, but lawmakers should be making these changes.
I mean, if I had repeated instances of someone else performing illegal activities in my basement, I can't continually, or even once, claim that I had no idea. Amazon knows it has counterfeit problems and does nothing to curb it. In fact, they encourage it. Just because it's hidden behind several layers of software abstraction does not mean that Amazon doesn't have explicit knowledge. These products even physically sit in their own warehouses.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know of any third party options to Airpods that: 1. pair instantly without problems to my apple devices 2. intelligently know when to switch between my phone to my laptop 3. intelligently know when to switch from car bluetooth to headphones 4. is compatible with "Find My" 5. has magsafe charging 6. has same sound quality and sound cancellation with above features these are all very important to me and my expe…
Transparency mode alone is a technological marvel. It is extraordinarily difficult to do correctly, and once your brain has adapted to the Apple acoustic transformations, they’ve achieved near-indistinguishability.
Agreed, it’s one of the most well refined Apple features in recent years. The teams behind sound at Apple have been doing amazing work.
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How do they have the 'power to abuse' with only 37.6% of the e-commerce marketshare? And probably less than 15% of overall retail marketshare?
What's Walmart's market share of online retail? Conversely what's Amazon's share of physical detail? (Preferably excluding whole foods since that's an arguably different business to selling cheap electronics and other junk) It's as if the two companies operate in... different spheres!
Did you mistake my comment with someone else’s?
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Yep. And counterfeits are good enough that you need dedicated personnel to be able to confirm high-value returns are legitimate and not knock-offs.
Does a good counterfeit Apple Watch actually do everything a real watch does, e.g., respond like a genuine watch after you install an arbitrary app on it and start using the app? (If so, I'm guessing they made the cheapest genuine Apple Watch look on the outside like a more expensive one.)
It won’t, but a random person off the street might not immediately notice the difference, particularly if they’d never used one before.
Even booting it to software, it might be enough for a completely-untrained person to assume it was real. Actually pairing it with a test phone might be the easiest/fastest to be certain.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
How so?
By instead having smaller companies/ local book shops, who don't treat their workers like shit (like not forcing them to pee in bottles because they cannot have breaks etc) and also are better for the environment (in my country - France - Amazon was caught regularly destroying tons of unsold goods because it was cheapest to do this that sending them back to the original seller).
How about a big company that doesn’t treat their workers like shit?