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The message of the talk is, essentially, that a person or team can get used to ignoring their own standards when under pressure.
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Where do you put your phone? I put mine in my pockets. It's not unusual for a fair amount of strain to be applied there.
I put mine in my pockets. I also exercise some intelligence and common sense in how I do it. It's not unusual for a fair amount of strain to be applied there. For you and other people, apparently not.
My Samsungs, HTC's, and older iPhones did just fine with me exercising exactly no intelligence when I put them in my pocket.
And yet out of all the people I knew who owned an iPhone 6 from launch never dealt with the "bendgate" issue, including myself. That's from personal experience owning and using one daily for 3 years. I still think this was an over-dramatized problem. If you eat/drink while working at a keyboard you can get stuff between the keys and either get them sticky or completely broken. Some actions can just cause issues but i…
>Some actions can just cause issues but if you handle the thing properly then you have nothing to worry about. Those keyboards broke because of small dust particles, nothing related to liquids, people are using the laptops as before but this time the keyboards are to fragile. The issue with Apple is that they sell products with defects and then refuse to replace them for free until they have to because of lawsuits. A…
I didn't specify which keyboard. Even mechanical keyboards can be affected by this. I wasn't referring specifically to the new Macbook butterfly keys.
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In this case, the 'sword' is a strategy that originally tried to appeal to everyone, from the least competent user to professionals. Judging from some of the idiocy I see in app reviews, a part of what's happening is that the LCD users are bringing expectations down to their level. What does one expect when you subject a deliberately thin electronic device to the full force of your body?
Where do you put your phone? I put mine in my pockets. It's not unusual for a fair amount of strain to be applied there.
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I put mine in my pockets. I also exercise some intelligence and common sense in how I do it. It's not unusual for a fair amount of strain to be applied there. For you and other people, apparently not.
You "exercise some intelligence and common sense in how [you put your phone in your pocket]"? What? What does that look like? My Samsungs, HTC's, and older iPhones did just fine with me exercising exactly no intelligence when I put them in my pocket.
• I then make sure to buy pants with front pockets deep enough that my phone is not being pressed into my groin when I sit;
• and I take my phone out of my pocket if someone is about to sit on [or straddle] my lap, charge into me at waist height, or drop a large object on my leg while I'm laying on my side.
You know, common sense.
I understand this is a problem and the phones shouldn't be susceptible to problems like this from normal use. Apple will probably just have to eat this one. The thing that annoys me a little is that if any other phone had a similar bending problem, nobody would give a hoot. In fact it looks like the HTC One had pretty much the same bend-ability[1]. That doesn't make what happened to these people's phones acceptable,…
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My wife has a MacBook Air where the touch pad doesn't work, the screen has bright and darker spots and Wifi doesn't get any connection. It made me buy a Dell XPS13 after 15y of Apple. Then Dell proved they could do worse. Sorry for the rant. I just hate myself for spending $3500 on garbage.
I can't find out why everyone rants and raves about the XPS13. Everywhere you look people are more or less shouting their positive reviews for it. The one I bought (top of the line i7 with fingerprint reader, touchscreen, the works) broke. They sent me a replacement (after a lot of arguing, even though I was in warranty), and that one broke too . I called again, they sent me a third laptop and within a month it broke…
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> but by then it was far too late My 2011 MBP had been collecting dust for a year when the repairs came and I had already bought a new MBP. Afterwards nobody wanted to buy the repaired 2011 MBP. I ended up gifting that machine to a junior dev on the team. In Mexico, Apple asked for about $1200 USD to replace the logic board on the 2011 MBP, and it made no sense to me to invest that kind of money on an old computer wi…
>I'd rather pay more than suffer Windows What causes you to suffer when using Windows?
Outside of Microsoft and some other big developers, there is still surprisingly a ton of win32 crap out there. Also support for scaling on hi DPI screens is a hit and miss. Even some Adobe apps have problems with scaling.
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so apple is basically saying it's okay to make a defective product as long as you keep the packaging at the back of the store?
If people are willing to buy your product sight unseen, will the actual product specifications and warnings fend them off?