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Jobs was an idiot. Chose homeopathic crap instead of medicine. I don't give him credit for anything if he's that dumb.
He's free to do that, sure, but anyone doing so is safe to be labeled "moron" by everyone else.
Unless I've heard a messed up version of events he will stay in the "idiots that were not beneficial to humans in any way" trash can.
He had one of the few treatable forms of pancreatic cancer and skipped the only known treatment in favour of homeopathic.
If he had "normal" pancreatic cancer I'd maybe give him some slack. It's just not treatable. But what he had was probably survivable had he treated it immediately.
Well if the treatment is specifically miserable, that could be a factor.
The treatment was surgery. Not even weeks/months of chemo.
His treatment of "eat exclusively one type of fruit a week" IIRC almost hospitalized Kushner when he replicated it while doing the biopic.
Well I tried to give the benefit of doubt even after hating Apple in general. I'm out of ideas of ways he wasn't a complete idiot that was doing stupid things for stupid reasons. And I've always been happy he's dead since I heard he was.
I actively celebrate deaths of stops and evil people alike. I've never seen the point of curbing it under terms like "I don't wish him dead, but I won't be sad to see his obituary". No I am actually am happy he's dead and just giddy to see his obit.
Kinda like I'm sure everyone was glad to see Hitler dead. I just get happy about evil AND stupid people's deaths.
My work got me an Macbook M3. After two weeks of dicking around with it, I went back to my Thinkpad. I don't get it at all. I thought at least the hardware would be great, but I hate the hardware too. Too heavy, aluminum case feels fucking cold to the touch, screen still isn't bright enough to work outside, keyboard has that fucked up layout. And although the M-series sets a nice trend, it currently cannot run GNU/Linux without lots of reverse engineering, so fuck that. My 2014 gen Thinkpad is a far better experience. I'm now even more convinced than ever that Apple is just a marketing cult.
I have the same gripe with the aluminum chassis on laptops. I got a cheap Thinkpad Chromebook for personal use and even though the material on the X1 Carbons is a fingerprint magnet, at least it isn't chilly every time you rest your hands on it.
I wish I had that choice, but my options right now are upgrade to an M3 now or wait until our stock runs out and get an M4. For now, I've decided to wait.
Their "repair" program is nothing but a scam to nudge you into buying a new Apple product to replace the broken one with overinflated repair prices and bullshit excuses like that.
Also it works exactly as Steve Jobs intended.
"Some of the parts were missing"
You motherfuckers put the damn thing together in the first place!
This is almost exactly what happened to me except they told me my phone had mold growing inside it from the shattered screen I wanted replaced.
The “mold” was pocket lint from waiting a month to get it fixed.
Bitch actually said right to my face that my phone no longer works so let’s get you a new one. I powered on the phone right there and he started backpedaling and grifting ‘oh but it won’t be long tho’. So I went home and still use it with the shattered screen because fuck them.
At least where I live, if the bootleg repair place isn't slightly moldy, it's a scam. Rundown, old white tiles on the wall, chipped mirror somewhere, a frail curtain to separate the back area from the front counter, and, in summer, a mandatory swiveling standing fan. That's where your phone will get a second lease on its live!
Parts missing? I don't believe this at all. A phone is basically a single board, screen, battery, lenses, audio bits. Everything is so jammed in that there's no room to think parts are missing. No tech would make this mistake and Apple doesn't benefit from generating a hostile customer experience. This is made up.
I used to work for Apple. I don't believe the missing parts story because as you said, how would that even happen. But, if any parts have been replaced, especially the home buttons / finger print reader, they will refuse to fix, and I never understand why. So that may be what happened.
Also Jobs was 100% behind this stuff. It's so annoying when people treat him like he was some tech god. He was a twat.
The refusal is likely tied to liability, in that they see any aftermarket parts or OoW repairs as a potential failure point and fear the customer may blame them for it. It wouldn't even matter if the quality of work or parts is as good or better. There's also another factor of trying to oversimplify any repairs/service to allow them to eventually hire unqualified/uneducated 'techs' for things who don't have a clue what's going on.
It's only relatively recently that Apple have allowed non-apple staff to repair iPhones so by definition everyone is unskilled because there's no way to be skilled unless you work for Apple.
He turned psychotic control over hardware into a science. He's done more to harm open source than a weirdly misogynistic neck beard could ever do.
Of course the tech didn't believe that. However, Apple does benefit from tech illiterate customers buying a new iPhone instead.
The only way i would believe it is if they meant a screw or two or one of the flat metal plates that is used to secure other components. Ive repaired i pho es and they are a pain tk deal with and sometimes you forget exactly which screw goes where when they are mostly so small they all look the same. I misplaced a small plastic component thst acts as a sound amplifying cone to direct your voice soundwaves to the microphone use for phone calls and it made it so people couldnt hear me unless i used the speaker phone. But thats no good reason not to repair. They should have drawers filled with those screws and other internal irrelevant components
The missing part was a brand new iPhone or two.