One Bad Rotten #Apple...
Contrary to "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", Apple the company is one bad rotten apple that will make you sick.
As an iPhone and Mac user, I have high esteem for Steve Jobs and the great design and quality of Apple's products. It still is even under Tim Cook, but the rotten part is the dirty business model they apply.
Cheating their customers who adore their products.
Is there anything worse?
As you well know by now that Apple designed the iPhones to slow down as the battery ages, and that is one rotten bad act to treat their faithful customers.
Apple Confirms Slowing Down Old iPhones
Apple has confirmed to The Verge that it has indeed slowed down older iPhones. However, the company is disputing claims by customers that it’s to force people to upgrade their devices. Instead, Apple says it is for the prolongment and protection of the device. In a statement, the California-based company stated
What's more sickening is they audaciously reported how much they increase the pay of their CEO Tim Cook. But, of course they could afford it with all their dirty business maneuvers...and Tim Cook surely expected to reap from the huge scoop. Wouldn't you!
Apple's Tim Cook paid $102m this year including bonuses worth $98m
Cook was paid a basic salary of $3.06m, a cash bonus of $9.3m (up from $5.4m last year), and collected share awards worth $89m taking his total 2017 payout to $102m, Apple disclosed in a regulatory filing.
This is sicker:
Here's Apple's huge apology for slowing down your old iPhone
Apple will offer $29 battery replacements that should speed things up again, through 2018.
...and oh, your iPhone will slow down again when the replacement battery ages...of course
So true is the end quote.
So you don’t believe that they were simply trying to help people with older iPhones? I wonder how many complaints they got from people with old phones that ran slow, had a fast draining battery, or randomly shut down?
I also wonder how many of those received the patch in a software update and were suddenly glad when their phone stopped shutting down in the middle of a phone call or text?
Then I wonder how many of those are now up in arms about Apple slowing their phone to help conserve their battery life that they wanted so bad and were so glad to finally have back?!
I would speculate that Apple should have done nothing and now all those people starting a class action against them would be likely buying new iPhones instead of taking legal action.
Would’ve been a much more lucrative idea, but would it have been the ethically correct one?
I wonder what the late Aaron Swartz had to say about it...
I suspect he would’ve been quite against Apple and anything they did/do!
I’ll be honest with you - I had to Google Aaron Swartz. But glad I’m glad I did - quite the Internet genius. I’m going to do more reading on him...