Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field? (2 Viewers)

[Enron]

Then people will argue about Gooogle's non-competitive practices.

 

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[Martin]

Not if they don't employ any.

 

[Enron]

They are a business.

 

[Zé Tahir]

I'm waiting for Google and Apple to come up with a nifty way of flushing my toilet.

 

[Enron]

You can already download that app.

 

[Zé Tahir]

Get out!?

 

[Martin]

They are a business.

Indeed. But business does what it wants. There's no compulsion to be evil. So far Google has more or less kept with "don't be evil".

 

[.zero]

GOOGLE FTW!!

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Indeed. But business does what it wants. There's no compulsion to be evil. So far Google has more or less kept with "don't be evil".

Are you saying competition is evil?

 

[Martin]

Are you saying competition is evil?

No Apple is. Hence the anti competitive charges you can read in the first post.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

"Apple is a company that never seems happy with the fact that you just gave it some money, and is constantly on the prowl for your next dollar."


EHHHHHHHHHHH WRONG!

I was 2 weeks past my 1 year warranty on my iPod and they sent me one free, with another 1 year warranty, for free.

I don't think anyone else would do that.

 

[swag]

I'm waiting for Google and Apple to come up with a nifty way of flushing my toilet.

Dude, toilet technology is outta control. I can't tell you how many yupsters I know (OK, I qualify as one of them ) who have these Japanese toilets now that play music, pre-heat the toilet seat, and spray a Bellagio-in-Vegas-style water show up your ass.

The bathroom is becoming the new kitchen -- which puts a scary spin on the old adage, "Don't ^#% where you eat."

 

[Martin]

"Apple is a company that never seems happy with the fact that you just gave it some money, and is constantly on the prowl for your next dollar."


EHHHHHHHHHHH WRONG!

I was 2 weeks past my 1 year warranty on my iPod and they sent me one free, with another 1 year warranty, for free.

I don't think anyone else would do that.

Here's a guy whose ipod exploded. He got a refund and a gag order from Apple not to tell anyone:
http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=19567

So yeah, everyone has anecdotes. So what? They treated you nice, they treated this guy not quite so nice. Don't tell anyone our stuff might be dangerous or else.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

If it's true and he had a gag order, I wonder how anyone knows about it.

 

[Martin]

Maybe they ignored it and told people anyway. Or a 3rd party found out somehow.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Which is impossible.

Unless he wanted to be sued, go to jail, or the 3rd party wanted to be.

 

[Martin]

Or the legal threat was plain bogus. Gag orders get reported on all the time. Most of them probably work but not all do.

 

[swag]

Gag orders don't mean anything. Just asked the tranny hooker I paid five bucks to last week.

 

[Bjerknes]

I hear La Prohibida really likes the iCockRing.

 

[swag]

I hear La Prohibida really likes the iCockRing.

I hear Steve "Hand" Jobs is into a little "amor electrico"...


That and s/he has a pretty ripe pancreas that he's had his eye on.