Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
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Re: Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
#2This was such a monumental marketing fail. If they had just said the price of the monitor was $7000 none of the target audience would have blinked.
Then when it went on sale, they could have quietly added in their configuration when you buy it:
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#3The WWDC2019 video literally starts with the text:
"All Rights Reserved. This Broadcast and its contents are the sole property of Apple and are protected by Federal Law and International treaties. You are strictly prohibited from making a copy or modification of, or from rebroadcasting, or re-encoding, this broadcast without the prior written permission from Apple Public Relations, excepts as may be permitted by law."
The whole video is published on YouTube, they could have just linked to the timestamp of the official video on there or on Apples own website.
Re: Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
#4One of the many reasons I will not buy Apple. You're buying the brand, the name, not actual quality.
I dont know what the exact percent is, but you're paying a significant markup on hardware for Apple vs, say a Dell, for the same hardware. Yeah, OS X is BSD based, but Dell will sell you the equivalent hardware for about half the price and guarantee it works with Linux (with support).
I'm not a Dell fan, despite most of my prior purchases being Dell, but they dont do an insane markup on Linux installs.
Tangent: I've also seen devs work on Macs have their code fail when dployed because they assume OS X is nix and Linux is nix not recognizong that by default, the MacFS is case insensitive, like Windows, but Linux is case sensitive by default.
Re: Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
#5The WWDC2019 video literally starts with the text: "All Rights Reserved. This Broadcast and its contents are the sole property of Apple and are protected by Federal Law and International treaties. You are strictly prohibited from making a copy or modification of, or from rebroadcasting, or re-encoding, this broadcast without the prior written permission from Apple Public Relations, excepts as may be permitted by law.…
Pretty sure copyright law allows doing exactly what they are saying you are not allowed to do, through fair use
Re: Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
#6What a click-bait headline. The title suggests Apple was involved in a large effort to silence the negative coverage. The article lists only one instance where they asked the website to pull down the video because it infringes copyright! The article is still up, right?
Also, do people really believe that Apple makes their billions by selling dongles?
Re: Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
#7What a click-bait headline. The title suggests Apple was involved in a large effort to silence the negative coverage. The article lists only one instance where they asked the website to pull down the video because it infringes copyright! The article is still up, right? Also, do people really believe that Apple makes their billions by selling dongles?
You're right, the title is kinda clickbait but the argument still "stands": a $1k stand his basically taking users for cash cows (while a majority of them are sheep)
Re: Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
#8Link to the original reporting, instead of some other web site re-writing someone else's work:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/05/apple_stand_copyrig...
Re: Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
#9The WWDC2019 video literally starts with the text: "All Rights Reserved. This Broadcast and its contents are the sole property of Apple and are protected by Federal Law and International treaties. You are strictly prohibited from making a copy or modification of, or from rebroadcasting, or re-encoding, this broadcast without the prior written permission from Apple Public Relations, excepts as may be permitted by law.…
Pretty sure copyright law allows doing exactly what they are saying you are not allowed to do, through fair use
That's the "excepts as may be permitted by law" part.
Re: Apple Attempted to Censor Critical Coverage of Its $1k Monitor Stand
#10This was such a monumental marketing fail. If they had just said the price of the monitor was $7000 none of the target audience would have blinked. Then when it went on sale, they could have quietly added in their configuration when you buy it: -$700 Vesa mount
I could see it if the stand provided some benefit other than looking cool. Like acting as a heat-sink, or being a massive Thunderbolt hub.
But even I, who has bought half a dozen launch-day Apple items, was surprised that this price point made it through the marketing department. It came off as really tone-deaf. More than half of the Macs in my office use reams of paper as monitor stands.
Maybe iFixit will do a teardown and find out it's made from mermaid scales and unicorn farts.