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Yeah, like the suicide plants these phones come from.
“People who witness injustice and want to expose it. And now they can, because they have a camera in their pocket all the time.”

Have you asked the dudes that build those phones?
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Sort of surprised Apple doesn't have a (voluntary) gag order on employees for such occasions.
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Apple approaches North Korean mathematical insanity.
The voice declares that 99 percent of people who own an iPhone love their iPhone. Which makes me think only one thing: What about that 1 percent?
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At this point, I think Apple is just performance theatre.
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The Surface has been kicking their ass.

I'm just not sure I understand the draw here. A tablet that's kind of a laptop, but not really? Oh, and far more expensive than a regular tablet, but again, can't really do much more...

Meanwhile, the Surface is the same price, is a tablet, AND is a fully functioning laptop.

Oh, and there's that whole 90% of the PC market vs 7-8% of the PC market to take into account too.

This is not a fight Apple wants as they're already losing it.
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Reality has been catching up with Apple lately.

iOS9 being called "the worst OS launch ever) and already has two patches.

Malware folks FINALLY targeting Apple and having success.

But...but...Apples don't get viruses and malware!
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Wow. That's shit you'd have to intentionally black list from a generic search function.
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Because your machines are pieces of shit.
“I think if you’re looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why would you buy one?” Cook told the British publication. “Yes, the iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people. They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones.”

Arrogance and self-presumption worthy of Jobs himself.
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That could be the dumbest technology quote I've ever heard.
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iOS9 has rendered a lot of iPhones completely useless.

This isn't an article, this is experience and some google research.

I've had users upgrade only to find their phone's touch screen stopped working intermittently. It was broken more often than not.

Apple's fix? Wipe it!

The problem is that for most users even doing a wipe and going back to a previous iOS version wasn't fixing the issue.

If I was Microsoft and Android I'd be running ads promising they won't release updates that completely break your phone like that fruit based technology company.
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Leisher wrote:If I was Microsoft ... I'd be running ads promising they won't release updates that completely break your phone...
No, they save that for your PC.
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I'm sure it has happened, but I've never seen a MS update break a PC.

A McAffee update, yes, but not a Windows one.
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Leisher wrote:I'm sure it has happened, but I've never seen a MS update break a PC.

A McAffee update, yes, but not a Windows one.
I have. Insta-blue-screen every time. I was able to go into safe mode and rollback, but it was annoying, and not limited to myself. Was a "known" issue, but not super common.
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Leisher wrote:I'm sure it has happened, but I've never seen a MS update break a PC.

A McAffee update, yes, but not a Windows one.
I guess it depends on how you define the word "break".
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TPRJones wrote:
Leisher wrote:I'm sure it has happened, but I've never seen a MS update break a PC.

A McAffee update, yes, but not a Windows one.
I guess it depends on how you define the word "break".
I don't want to get into a long philosophical debate on this (I wouldn't mind it, but I'm pretty busy this week), but Windows 10 doesn't break shit. Is it intrusive? It can be if you don't turn everything off, but what isn't these days. (And please don't bring up Linux because we all know the fucking minute they got market control their tune would change.)

I'm actually typing this on a Surface Book running Windows 10.

Catt's example is of something broken, and like I said, I know people have had those issues, but generally MS's track record for updates that don't break things is actually good.

McAffee updates routinely made PCs unable to boot up when I worked for a company running it. I now do not recommend it nor does my company use their crap.

Ditto for iOS 9. I've instructed all my users to avoid upgrading to it until all the phone breaking issues are resolved.
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Leisher wrote:That could be the dumbest technology quote I've ever heard.
Tim Cook proves Leish wrong.
Apple CEO Tim Cook declared earlier this week that the iPad Pro "is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop" for lots of people
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Cook was referring to Windows-based notebooks and desktops, not Apple's range of Macs. "We don't regard Macs and PCs to be the same," says Cook. "What we've tried to do is to recognize that people use both iOS and Mac devices." So it appears that in the eyes of Tim Cook, an iPad Pro will replace a Windows PC, but not a Mac. Cook didn't elaborate on his reasoning in the independent.ie interview.

Goddamn, he's finally seen the light. Macs and PCs aren't the same. One's a ceremonial object which is worshiped by its users as a gift from on high. Any alterations to that divine plan require 4-6 week waiting period while the regional priests read electronic tea leaves and goat entrails to determine the spiritual crisis. After communing with the patron saints and angels of hardware, they finally bless some new components and install them.

The other's a fucking computer -- a thing that does work for me without me sucking the digital dick of a company so arrogant, blind and pretentious that they call in-person tech support a "genius bar."
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