Apple [5] Rotten to the Core


There is no denying Apple have produced some very innovative products over the last 40+ years, coupled with some sleek designs and good quality craftsmanship. It is no wonder many people prefer Apple products over most of its competitors. Hell, I even cut my teeth on programming and IT engineering after buying a 2nd hand Lisa and original Macintosh in 1992 (both produced way back in 1982, and cost thousands even back then!)

However, quality doesn’t come cheap, and so it comes as no surprise that everything these cunts sell is at a super-premium price. Even 2nd hand/refurbished kit can still command eye watering prices for those wanting to try Apple but don’t have access to a bank loan to buy one from new!

And then of course there’s the questionable ethics behind the manufacture and assembly of their products. They source components for manufacture from many places around the world including Japan, Switzerland, Poland, the UK, the US and of course China/Taiwan.

The assembly process is mostly carried out in China and Taiwan. Places of cheap labour, unethical working practices, and currently a big friend of Russia over the Ukraine conflict.

To its credit Apple has stopped sales of its products and services into Russia, but at time of writing hasn’t done anything to piss off the Chinese, probably because if it shut down its factories it would massively hit sales growth and of course profits.

Another annoyance with Apple is that even though its products are well made and have a very high quality assurance threshold, when things go wrong and your device is out of warranty you’re faced with one hell of a bill if you want it repaired by an authorised Apple Service Provider (ASP).

For example, up until around 2015 most Apple laptops and desktops had either standard SATA drives or solid state that were portable and easy to replace. But with the advent of the T2 security chip integrated into the System Management Console on some of their devices, Apple decided to increase security further by soldering the SSDs to the logic board and encrypting it, which means they cannot be swapped out, and neither can they be cloned or backed up/restored remotely should the device fail to power up and you don’t have iCloud or Time Machine enabled.

Another example is that if you have a swollen battery, an ASP probably won’t replace the battery but will replace the entire dependent components as well. In other words they will swap out the battery, keyboard, top case, track bar and anything else related to the battery. You end up paying not only for a new battery but new components that replaced perfectly good working ones.

Therefore it comes as no surprise that Apple is one of the richest most profitable companies on the planet. And yet ethically they are complete cunts, and their cavalier attitude towards their customers is equally cuntish.

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Nominated by: Technocunt

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And on a slightly different Apple note, here’s one from Ruff Tuff Creampuff

Apple Together are cunts.

According to this bunch of workshy wokies, being asked to get back to the office after “working” from home during the pandemic is deemed racist, sexist and ageist.

“It will make Apple younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied.” How ghastly!

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probably transphobic too. I’ll take that as a given.

Apple [4]

I know the world has gone to shit in a handcart, but FFS! What kind of cunt pays £1,399 for a fucking electronic watch just because – according to Apple – it “inspires wrist envy”??

Presumably the same sort of cunt who pays £499 for the fucking strap to go on it just because it’s made by Hermes and it wraps around your wrist twice so that everyone can tell you’ve got one. Let’s be honest, the watch strap has been around a long time and there’s never been a reason to make it go around your wrist twice. It’s a classic design so why fuck with it? Well, presumably just to inspire wrist envy!!!

And what does the fucking watch do anyway? Well you can use it to make calls because it links to the iPhone in your pocket. Just get the fucking phone out of your pocket you lazy cunts!

And of course you’ll want to upgrade to the iPhone RED so that everyone can see you’re a virtue signalling cunt who pays extra for your phone to support AIDS charities.

Well, here’s a suggestion for all you tossers who want to inspire wrist envy : just tattoo “I’m a cunt” on your wrist. And if you’re embarrassed by it later in life, you can always cover it up with a double looping £499 Hermes watch strap.

You gotta hand it to Apple. They’ve got exploiting snowflakes off to a ‘T’

Nominated by Pedantic Cunt

The iWatch

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What the fuck? With all the resources the cunts at Apple are supposed to have they produce something used by Dick Tracey in the 70s.

And what of the useless cunts camping out to say they are the first to have one. As most of these cunts dont look like they have seen a shower and soap for about 6 weeks no doubt the last millions Apple fondled on this latest invention was paid for these cunts to camp outside.

Surely no right minded individual would do so at unless they were paid royally?

Nominated by: King Cunt

The cunts who camp outside a shop overnight for a fucking iWatch are total bellends… I remember in the 90s that HMV (overpriced cunts) opened their store on Market Street, Manchester (said HMV is now closed. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.) so people could by the new Oasis album (What’s The Story? Load Of Bollocks) at midnight. Anyone who goes into Mcr City Centre at midnight is fucking mad to start with. But to que up for a crap album, a Harry Potter book, or a bloody watch?! There are some real wankers out there…

As for the Apple iWatch, what sort of knob would wear that? I couldn’t go into my local Moston boozer with that on and live it down. Even though I can afford one I would never buy one…. It’s flash, it’s poncey, and the almost religious zeal that meets every new Apple product is sickening…

Nominated by: Norman

( Posted from my Apple MacBook Pro. Ed.)

iFascism

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Apple IFascism – vastly overpriced chinko gear sold to iCunt tossers. Particularly pissed off by that strap line at the bottom orf their messages “sent from my iPhone”.

Who the fuck cares you juvenile wanker?

Nominated by: Sir Limply Stoke

Queues a mile long outside Apples stores all over the world because these they want the latest fucking iShit. FFS get a life!

Must confess a post on mine in similar vein!

Nominated by: Dioclese

( Written on my MacBookPro )