Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work

Post by scintill76 » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 9:49 PM UTC

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And in a nutshell, that's why people buy stuff from apple. imo, their brand is "here's a good thing, and we promise it will work". Amazon's is "you're on your own, but it's really fucking cheap!" That's not to say amazon doesn't have good customer service, but the whole thing is still shit. I just wanted a [cable|dongle|hdmi adapter|battery|plant spray|charger] that was what it claimed to be and worked correctly the…

Funny story. I wanted to buy a cheap iPad for my son. I could have got one from Amazon but after hearing so many stories about scams or refurb devices or devices with someone else's state on it I decided not to deal with that headache and ordered direct from the Apple website. Upon turning on the device for the first time it showed a screen saying it was controlled by the LDS Church and wouldn't proceed through guide…

Post by czinck » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 9:52 PM UTC

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My assumption is that he's working on some sort of project where he's buying many cables on Google's dime to test them, then reporting his results on Amazon. My worry would be the cables that get good reviews being switched out for crappy cables down the line. I've had problems with this for cables and adapters before - I'll re-order from Amazon and get a slightly different product that is not 100% compatible with th…

Isn't there some kind of SKU/ISBN-like identifier that you could use to prevent that? Enforcing consistency would be tricky, but there should be certain quantifiable properties, especially when proper specifications are involved, to rate against.

Post by aerovistae » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 9:58 PM UTC

Post by beernutz » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 10:01 PM UTC

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They also make a ridiculously amazing Solar charger array, which when I took across a border to Israel, had the inspectors in serious awe and wishing they could get one as inexpensively as we can in the States.

Amazon link?

Post by EvanAnderson » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 10:03 PM UTC

scintill76 wrote: post #231

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Funny story. I wanted to buy a cheap iPad for my son. I could have got one from Amazon but after hearing so many stories about scams or refurb devices or devices with someone else's state on it I decided not to deal with that headache and ordered direct from the Apple website. Upon turning on the device for the first time it showed a screen saying it was controlled by the LDS Church and wouldn't proceed through guide…

Am I correct in assuming this is some kind of enterprise managed provisioning? I am surprised that they both ship it that way, and that it can't be removed. I guess Apple doesn't care about killing resale value (in the case of it being unremovable), but you'd think these kind of screw-ups would be a reason not to ship it this way. Do the restrictions extend deep into the hardware, or are they just saving the enterpri…