DONT BUY APPLES
ok. Apple computer has always had the best systems hands down. someone over there understands human beings, how they work and how they need operate. Now that's the end of praise.
Apple computer is also the biggest price-gouging, non-supportive, bait & switch to ever hit the markets. read on.
The Hardware Scheme: Produce a superior product, charge three times too much for it. Offer slightly scaled-down models just within reach of most consumers pocketbooks, then refuse any real tech support and limit functionality. Create an advertising atmosphere that makes your customers uncool, unhip and out of the loop to own or use a product more than 1 season old.
The Software Scam: Release buggy, unperfected software (OS 8.1 Hooray!, OS 9 Wahoo! OS X Yeeay! OX 10.3 Yippee) and give it sexy names like 'Jaguar' 'Panther' & now 'Tiger'. Charge a fortune for it. Make it just too big to fit on the affordable models of computers or any hardware more than six months old. Force loyal customers to upgrade hardware (See: 'The Hardware Scheme' above).
Finally, fix all the bugs after the loyal, now upgraded customers have done all your QA and testing for you, and like lambs for the slaughter, uploaded the information to your web site. Release a new upgrade. Charge for it. Repeat.
The Support Swindle: Add to the company coffers by selling "Applecare' insurance policies, then make it nearly impossible to make a claim.
In my humble opinion, Apple Computers is akin to an organized drug-dealer syndicate. And the Columbian-style Computer Kingpin at the helm would be Steve Jobs. People love charts, how's about a wee comparison shall we?
...................................Drug Dealer...........Apple Computers
Sells a product by means
of addiction, compulsion
or manipulating a real
or psychological need...............................X.................................X
Doesn't offer, make good
on or provide real support
after the sale.....................X.................................X
Leaves customer helpless
in times of crisis or
abandons them totally
if consumer cannot
afford the latest product.............................X.................................X
Product (or lack therof)
causes serious ramifications:
loss of productivity and/or
work time; psychological/
stress-related and/or
physical damage..................X.................................X
Value of product
disentegrates after use...................................X.................................X
So there you have it. Draw your own conclusions. I, for one, resent like hell being gouged unconsentually. I also resent buying something, anything, in good faith that it will work, and the value be somewhere in the same neighborhood as the price I paid - only to discover the skew is steeper than Mount Kilimanjaro.
Which brings to mind a few other things that might fit our little perverted study here... Cars, tobacco, alcohol, maybe even fast food? And is it any surprise that the manufacturers of these products support the likes of King George W. Bush? - but that's another essay.
The Moral of the Story: All retailers know that if a customer has a good experience (which is rare these days) they tend to tell 1 other person. If they have a bad experience, they tend to tell 10 people. So, I think there are plenty more than 10 who read me. DONT BUY APPLE.
Think it doesn't work? Ask the 14 year old boy who put up a website condemning Apple for engineering the batteries in the Ipods to expire, permanently, after a certain period of time. (They actually thought we'd all just run out and buy a new one).
m
Apple computer is also the biggest price-gouging, non-supportive, bait & switch to ever hit the markets. read on.
The Hardware Scheme: Produce a superior product, charge three times too much for it. Offer slightly scaled-down models just within reach of most consumers pocketbooks, then refuse any real tech support and limit functionality. Create an advertising atmosphere that makes your customers uncool, unhip and out of the loop to own or use a product more than 1 season old.
The Software Scam: Release buggy, unperfected software (OS 8.1 Hooray!, OS 9 Wahoo! OS X Yeeay! OX 10.3 Yippee) and give it sexy names like 'Jaguar' 'Panther' & now 'Tiger'. Charge a fortune for it. Make it just too big to fit on the affordable models of computers or any hardware more than six months old. Force loyal customers to upgrade hardware (See: 'The Hardware Scheme' above).
Finally, fix all the bugs after the loyal, now upgraded customers have done all your QA and testing for you, and like lambs for the slaughter, uploaded the information to your web site. Release a new upgrade. Charge for it. Repeat.
The Support Swindle: Add to the company coffers by selling "Applecare' insurance policies, then make it nearly impossible to make a claim.
In my humble opinion, Apple Computers is akin to an organized drug-dealer syndicate. And the Columbian-style Computer Kingpin at the helm would be Steve Jobs. People love charts, how's about a wee comparison shall we?
...................................Drug Dealer...........Apple Computers
Sells a product by means
of addiction, compulsion
or manipulating a real
or psychological need...............................X.................................X
Doesn't offer, make good
on or provide real support
after the sale.....................X.................................X
Leaves customer helpless
in times of crisis or
abandons them totally
if consumer cannot
afford the latest product.............................X.................................X
Product (or lack therof)
causes serious ramifications:
loss of productivity and/or
work time; psychological/
stress-related and/or
physical damage..................X.................................X
Value of product
disentegrates after use...................................X.................................X
So there you have it. Draw your own conclusions. I, for one, resent like hell being gouged unconsentually. I also resent buying something, anything, in good faith that it will work, and the value be somewhere in the same neighborhood as the price I paid - only to discover the skew is steeper than Mount Kilimanjaro.
Which brings to mind a few other things that might fit our little perverted study here... Cars, tobacco, alcohol, maybe even fast food? And is it any surprise that the manufacturers of these products support the likes of King George W. Bush? - but that's another essay.
The Moral of the Story: All retailers know that if a customer has a good experience (which is rare these days) they tend to tell 1 other person. If they have a bad experience, they tend to tell 10 people. So, I think there are plenty more than 10 who read me. DONT BUY APPLE.
Think it doesn't work? Ask the 14 year old boy who put up a website condemning Apple for engineering the batteries in the Ipods to expire, permanently, after a certain period of time. (They actually thought we'd all just run out and buy a new one).
m
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