In this thread post legal but disgusting business practices by tech companies
>release $1300 laptop with no ports
>charge $80 for separate adapter
>release updated and more expensive Macbook "Pro" Retina
>remove Ethernet and USB ports requiring extra expense of adapters to have the same functionality
>We realize times are changing and people need more storage because they're using their phones to store more and take progressively higher quality photos and videos so we'll be updating from 16gb, 32gb and 64gb options to 16gb, 64gb and 128gb options for $650, $750 and $850 respectively
of course it's all apple shit. no company hates their customers quite like the genuises at infinite loop.
>>55523026
>100GB+ of photos
Tards pay the tard price
>>55523566
HD photos, HD videos, music and downloaded video can fill up 100GB ez
>>55522954
Never knew there was a Macbook with 3 usbs.
>>55522954
Thunderbolt is better, though. You can upgrade your ethernet adapter with the times instead of being stuck with a Gigabit or worse, Fast Ethernet, adapter. They have the same number of USB ports, though, so I don't know what you're talking about.
>on my second Macbook, each with two thunderbolt ports
>have never used them once, not a single time
Are any thunderbolt accessories worth having? Seems like USB3 has made them redundant, especially with eGPUs never panning out.
>>55522842
H1B visas
Firing staff and making them train their H1B replacements
Stuffing money off-shore to avoid taxes while getting massive tax incentives
Corporate person hood
The ability to participate in the political process
>>55522842
Pretty unfortunate that you were forced to buy the official adapter
What was the situation there?
>>55523849
Jew employees can blame themselves for this.
>>55523818
Usually both my thunderbolt ports are used when I'm at home. One is for ethernet, the other one for my monitor.
Thunderbolt hubs are pretty cool for that purpose too. Just plug all your shit in the hub at home (monitor, ethernet, keyboard, mouse, external drives for backup, whatever else you need) and you can attach your macbook with a single port. It's pretty neat.
>>55522842
>releasing non-free software
WHEN WILL IT END
>>55522842
>Buy somewhat down-to-earth software developer out and promise him and his software autonomy and better resources
>Eventually just gets eaten up and half-digested and then spit out
>make extremely popular mobile platform
>lock it down to the point it is restrictive
>about to release product
>leaked
>send two corporate employees to raid a house
>with the backing of the actual police
>make $1300 laptop
>no ports
>not user serviceable
>parts are soldered
>have popular OS
>insert NSAkey
>purchase finnish mobile phone maker
>lay off employees
>run it into the ground
>be the most popular desktop OS maker
>dominate the market
>release new malware OS
>force PCs to upgrade
>distribute this malware to older iterations of the OS as well
>dominate the web search and email market
>systematically log and store everything on users
>retain logs from even day one of their usage
>have popular alternative/nerd culture website
>implement post verification from data mining company on it
>be administrator of popular alt/nerd culture website
>users systematically destroy a political cartoonist's life
>do nothing to stop it
For this last one I'll say the name because some of you might not get it
>dell laptop
>upgrade ram or some other part
>something goes wrong
>send it in to service depot
>returns with original parts and upgrade(s) removed without explanation
>>55523878
>Jew employees can blame themselves for this.
You miss-spelled employer...
>>55522842
>French CEOs since the beginning of Third Reich
>Send money and run rallies to patronize the Third Reich and fascism because it's a really good way to splatter mass movements
>Companies get nationalized by the National Council of Resistance after Liberation, such as cars manufacturers or transports (trains)
That was the case for IBM, and my computer's patents (such as its French translation, "ordinateur") are from them.
>>55524033
>returns with original parts and upgrade(s) removed without explanation
This is straight up theft and I'm surprised they haven't been sued for it.
>>55522842
Creating better and much needed update to BIOS, not as clean as I want but still nice update standard.
Everyone and their dog only "loosely" follows the new protocol. Resulting is mass compatibility issues compared to the working stable BIOS it replaced.
How can all these companies work to literal build a standard, then fail to follow it so badly?
>be Apple
>overprice everything by dramatic amounts
>make crazy profits
>never give anything back to consumers
>never give anything to charities
>pocket all of it
>spend some on R&D to create new devices that will just bring in more fucking profit
>keep all the profits offshore outside of the US where Apple was founded and headquartered
>quarter trillion bucks and never paying taxes on it like they should
I could go on but basically everything Apple has ever done is scummy.
3.5 GB
Regional monopolies.
Patent wars.
Lobbying (which is literally legal way to bribe)
No refunds even after account hack(Sony)
Inserting backdoors into hardware
Creating separate standard for anything for a device just so you can have monopoly on it.( vita and memory card, applel and their chargers and other ports, gsync)
Gimping your older hardware with new drivers to force people to upgrade. Or Gimping hardware with drivers in general(tesla, Nvidia)
Requiring shitload of unneeded account permissions for an app.
Artifical scarcity and planned obsolescence
Pay2win games
>>55525095
They are just playing capitalism you stupid f*cking moron.
The system is the problem, not smart people who want to be good at it.
>>55525095
>be apple
>acquire mad amounts of currency by buttraping everybody
>keep all the money to...
>build a headquarters building that looks like a gaping asshole from space satellite images
Why
>planned obsolescence and shitty build quality (particularly for EXPENSIVE, """HIGH-QUALITY""" hardware)
>non-removable batteries
>forcing software updates
>>55527357
I've been saying we should switch to a honnoji academy-based government for years
>>55522842
so, get irrationally mad at Apple thread?
>>55527536
Applel doesn't force software updates goyim
They just give you a nice annoying popup once a day
