That’s a nice Pepe
Leaving a comment in case someone can link it
Could’ve bought a new android phone for the same price.
I personally don’t recommend it for your main phone. The perfect price to spend is around $300 to $500. Go more expensive, and its diminishing returns. Go cheaper, and its e-waste that lags a lot. Doesn’t even have proper codecs to play a x265 movie correctly (yes I watch movies on my phone xD).
$50 phones are burner phones for travel or protest, its gonna be miserable for every day use.
TLDR: I mean, unless you are really tight on budget, don’t get those super cheap phones. More bloatmore, more spying (on top of the already existing spyware).
Even though androids phones may also face similar problems frlm OEMs, I will still just stick to android for it’s somewhat openness.
Buy fairphone!
inb4 “but it’s too expensive 😭😭😭” *buys an iPhone instead*
Fairphones suck though, if you want to fix your problems. Got a Fairphone 3 after my Nokia couldn’t be repaired. I got it explicitly to have a phone that can be repaired more easily. But you know what? The fucker refuses to break!
I don’t think android has much to do with hardware but I could be wrong
Well i mean no but kinda yes. iOS 18.1 has part pairing, which means it only works on specific hardware configurations
Android is an open source OS mainly developed by Google (which doesn’t include google apps/android closed ecosystem apps). The android OEMs may do this. But due to somewhat androids openness, I can get an android phone from other OEMs which I think would do somewhat better than this
Right, so like they said, it’s about the OEM, not the OS.
I haven’t had any such run-ins yet. When I asked them to replace my iPad’s batteries, they said that they couldn’t do it, but gave me a new iPad of the same model for CHF 100.- (which would have been the price of the battery replacement).
I stopped reading when it said “$2000 paperweights”. You can dislike Apple for any number of reasons, but this doesn’t make sense. Its products work just fine and they run the software that’s on them.
It becomes a paperweight once you install the software updates.
No it does not. Anyone who refers to a functional machine as a paperweight should be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
“Functional machine” is the working term here. But I guess we have different definitions of what counts as “functional” :)
We do not have different definitions of a functional machine. If you think they’re overpriced, fine; underperforming per price:performance ratio? Fine. Whatever you want. But brand new Apple products work and you all sound ridiculous defending calling them paperweights.
Cultist detected
Seems like the anti-cultist are the real cultist
Yes. The person who correctly points out that functional computers are not paperweights is a cultist. If you legitimately believe that, you need a whole lot worse than prison.
computers
Apple don’t make computers, they make wealth extractors.
Bro what? It’s a greentext - it’s 4chan. They all need theraphy.
Sure, but does nobody know what a paperweight is?
No, they probably don’t 😅 just like floppy disks. The term now generally means “useless”
http://paperweight.urbanup.com/2374416
Urban dic implies heavily on apple products too
That is literally the exact definition I am trying to explain to these worthless dumbfucks.
Apple hate threads don’t contain main truths.
Consumers complaining about the products they don’t buy is how they justify their choices. Literally no more complicated that than.
Like watching people who buy mega blok, complaining about how Lego sucks because mega block has a better ramps. Also, they once stepped on a Lego and they have a conspiracy theory around it.
These are the dumbest human beings on planet Earth. Not knowing what a paperweight is and then downvoting me for pointing it out should be subject to imprisonment.
A unibody phone can’t be missing parts
I had a screen die on an iphone. The guy lied and said it could not be fixed. I got a piece if shit android phone. Two years later I see the old Iphone and plugged it in. The fucking thing works.
I’ve posted this before, but I took a phone in for a battery replacement. Pretty routine. They took forever and finally came back to me and said “we can’t replace your battery because we broke two screens trying to put it back together.” Listen motherfuckers, you had one job, it’s all you do all day, and you somehow had Slippy McThumbs as the technician? They then handed me a nonfunctional phone and, dead serious, asked for a good time for a call with tech support to get my phone replaced. Then took a $1000 deposit on a phone with a trade value of maybe $300 until they got the broken one. Three-ring shit show.
I’ve worked in a repair shop before, and we would actually do similar with specific devices. The difference with us I guess is that we wouldn’t take it for repair without you consenting to that prior to us even checking in the device. For things like the original Microsoft Surfaces, and some Lenovo laptops, they’re glued together so tightly that opening them up to fix something is basically impossible without breaking the screen that is on it.
Also with us if we took it for repair and couldn’t fix it, it either had to come back in the same condition, or we fronted the bill for a replacement.
None of this applies to phones at all though. I’d be really interested to hear what device was so difficult that they couldn’t repair it, because all current gen Samsung, Apple and Google Pixel devices are definitely repairable, as long as you have the proper software tools.
iPhone XS. They (the Apple Store) said “for insurance reasons” they couldn’t continue trying to put the phone together because they might break another screen.
iPhone XS is child’s play, I genuinely can’t fathom why a repair shop (Apple store no less) couldn’t replace a screen on that device. 7 screws (including the pentalopes) and some heat is all you need. Takes 5 minutes of actual repair and another 2 or 3 to run the calibration software.
Did you guys have a heat gun?
We used a hot plate that we could dial specifically to 70c so there was less risk of damaging the battery. Just leave the phone face down on it to bake, and after a few minutes the adhesive pulls apart easily.
Couldn’tWouldn’t👌
This happened to me, just with a shattered screen instead of an old battery. Fucker tried to tell me my phone was bricked. I turned it on in front of the cunt and left.
I couldn’t get a 5 € USB port exchanged on warranty because of a small tear in the screen. Because those fuckers glued the screen on. I wish I had had the energy and time to sue them for warranty. Not my problem if they make their shit harder to repair.
Edit: Was for Nokia, not Apple.
It’s part of the American culture to get fisted by corpos. That is how they like it over there.
You can’t even whisper criticism of capitalism / the free market or you will be labeled a filthy commie.
Try saying that the Western world has set humanity on a path towards extinction by industrializing without a meaningful thought towards sustainability and youll get a response of BUT CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA (maybe a little India) BUT CHINA by people who are considered well educated and well regarded there. Its that NYT, Washington Post aka American mainstream media brainrot. It’s quite rampant.
You can’t even whisper criticism of capitalism
Also religion and guns. I’ve been publicly mocked for it and someone I knew IRL went off on me on social media. So bizarre this land of the free.
Shiiittt mann, these days war crimes ain’t even war crimes
Get yourself a pocket president to legitimize everything you do and crime becomes legal.
This story is a lie.
Welcome to greentexts.
What’s next, you’re going to tell me the story is homosexual as well?!?
I don’t know OP well enough to complete the meme, but I did work for Apple for many years, and several of these details don’t match their script at all.
Missing parts? The interior of that phone is one soldered piece. Just shrugging the question off? Apple people will talk your head off about the diagnostic test to sound clever. Battery swap? They would have been looking at replacing the whole unit because that’s how they roll.
That was fun to watch
If the battery is dead how can they turn it on to find out what the problem is? Literally an unsolvable problem.
I suppose in theory they could replace the battery and then see if that fixed the issue, and if it didn’t then there’s another issue, and then fix that issue, but all that seems like a lot of work.
This is sarcasm right and people are being wooshed or!?!? (I really don’t know anymore sometimes :D)
Only a Genius could come up with a scheme that offloads the cost of their own laziness to the customer. Exactly the kind of innovation that Steve Jobs stood for.
If the battery is dead how can they turn it on to find out what the problem is? Literally an unsolvable problem.
Takes 5 seconds to probe the battery with a multimeter and see its dead. Those are basic troubleshooting steps that some 10 year olds can do, let alone a professional repair shop.
And any device built to be serviceable has diagnostic probing points on the pcb for stuff like this, even iPhones
Yeah I know that’s my point.
Given the absolutely clueless troubleshooting you suggested in the 2nd paragraph that was not exactly clear
I’m on the opposite extreme, because I don’t see how the cluelessness portrayed in the second paragraph detracts from the sarcasm
