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AndOne for the un

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It’s almost like Apple is incredibly anti-consumer, and go out of their way to make buying a new phone more appealing than trying to repair the one you have

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You think Apple is bad, let me tell you about a company named John Deere.

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41 points

It’s not a competition, they can both be shit.

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21 points

John Deere sure does hate competition

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1 point

It’s not a counterargument, they can both be inclusive comments.

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I went to the John Deere museum in Moline, and they were playing fucking devotional music about their tractors,

For God so loved the world that he gave us his sole-begotten tractor…

🤮🤑

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7 points

…that we make with proprietary hardware & software that renders your tractor a brick when the electronics break…

Raaaammmmmennnn!!!

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5 points

Oh mate, I’m aware of John Deere and their “but we can’t let the farmers repair their own equipment because the environment

Yes, because independent repair shops are definitely going to sabotage your tractors to make them worse for the environment if you don’t step in and stop them!

It’s totally not about establishing a monopoloy to force farmers to pay exorbitant repair charges, or face paying for a whole new tractor entirely when you refuse to do repairs. Not at all!

/s in case it wasn’t obvious

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127 points

This makes no sense. How does a working phone “miss a few vitals parts” necessary to replace battery?

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My best guess is he removed the screws from the phone and maybe they couldn’t service the phone because of that? Wild guess, used to work behind the Genius Bar, but that was almost 15yrs ago. But it sounds like a made up excuse tbh.

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there’s a channel on YouTube, by louis rossman. you’ll find plenty of examples of bs answers from apple tech support in order to make you spend a great deal of money.

furthermore, nowhere it talks about “vital parts”. So yeah, it makes no sense, but for other reasons.

Read your comment twice, now I got what you mean. took me a bit, but you’re definitely right.

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Does Louis rossman do anything else?

Because I can see making bank off gathering bad experiences. Statistically there must be dozens each day.

The anti-Apple crowd would binge the shit out of that.

Idiocracy is here and now.

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You can just check out his YouTube channel to get the answer, I guess.

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14 points

you should ask him what else does he do for a living and or hobby.

Idiocracy is here and now.

If ye say so

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58 points

You say “anti Apple crowd” like we shouldn’t all be exactly that. Corporations have nobody’s interest at heart but their own. Stop being a fanboy, stop feeling any kind of loyalty for a bunch of rich fucks that’ll screw you over first chance they get. Pro consumer is the only reasonable position to have.

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Idiocracy is here and now.

Ironic considering you’re the one simping for a mega conglomerate guilty of known anti-consumer practises. Come on dude, it’s not like the subtle. Grow a brain.

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Because I can see making bank off gathering bad experiences

The majority of his YT videos tend to have monetisation disabled

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57 points

The genius bar is pretty infamous for largely being staffed by idiots

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Well that’s because there all college kids. Apple is all about the perception not the reality.

Apple but more effort into designing the aesthetic of the store than they do training the staff.

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15 points

They claimed my daughter’s phone had a cracked screen and couldn’t replace the battery, while showing a picture of the very clearly not cracked screen.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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6 points

I imagine this is how Apple would justify it - if there are internal screws or shields missing then it’s a sign that it has been repaired previously by a 3rd party. It might work fine, but it’s not to the original Apple specification.

The Apple store don’t want to take responsibility for those repairs so refuse to do further work in case it leaves them with liability.

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And it sells like fresh cookies

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11 points

And people setup camps lining up for new ipoops. Holy fucking hell.

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1 point

Does that really still happen?

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-41 points

This is such a fake and dumb story and largely why 4chan post 2005 is so shallow. These kids don’t have the writing skills to write anything remotely convincing

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19 points

I would have said the same thing if it hadn’t happened to my mom as well.

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29 points

What part of the story makes you come to that conclusion?

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24 points

Yeah, everyone knows apple fix things for free, instantly with magic and a blowjob on the side. Apple anti consumer? Never heard of it

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0 points

There’s plenty of things to hate on Apple about, no need to make things up.

Unless one has taken their phone to a dodgy repair shop, there is no feasible way it would be missing pieces.

My own anecdotal experiences with Apple range from The fuck? to Nice! It seems that like most companies, it depends on which person helps, and if they are willing to help.

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3 points

You actually have to give the blowjob to get the repair.

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3 points

You’re right but people are mad because they think you’re defending Apple for some reason.

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0 points

Thanks for being the only one to understand,you’re the goat.

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2 points

There’s really no way to know if they’re right. We don’t have evidence for the original story either way saying if it happened or not.

However, we do have plenty of people’s experiences saying similar things have happened to them.

If we’re being honest, we can at least conclude the story is plausible, even likely. Saying absolutely either way is dogmatism apropos of nothing.

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The burden of proof is on the poster to verify the story. I think it’s safe to say like 80% of stories on the internet are fake (what does ‘some missing parts’ even mean??)

I don’t doubt people have had similar experiences but greentexts are rarely true and this one sounds incoherent to me

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