/tech/ - Technology★

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>Which basically means Apple is admitting their products are potentially fucking defective even as they're shipped to stores

Yes, and? That's probably a good news.

>>1065341

I do not mean do offend, but do you have Aspergers?

>>1065341

>we just launch a new macbook!

>the keyboard may break though!

Chill out guys. Only a small percentage of Macbooks have this design defect.

>>1065342

>>1065345

Apple is a company making non-free software and it makes people buying their devices think they're special, while they're just exploited.

Every failure of Apple is a good news.

why is everything called *gate now

>>1065359

Hey Louis

>>1065353

I agree, and I saw that you think the same as me from your first post, but your lack of comprehension from OP's post made me think that you might have Aspergers.

>>1065372

I agree.

>>1065351

>Chill out guys. Only a small percentage of Macbooks have this design defect.

No, ALL keyboards with the butterfly mechanism have the design defect. It seems this design makes the keys extremely vulnerable to dust and debris. A little bit of whatever gets into it, there's so little room to move that it gets the whole mechanism jammed. All because Apple was obsessed with making their goddamn computers a milimeter thinner than the competition.

>>1065359

Because everyone wants their own asspain to become a global society-altering event on the scale of gamergate.

>>1065337 (OP)

Wow, so you're telling me that the corporation that ruined keyboards forever doesn't make good keyboards. How surprising. It's almost like they only make cheap garbage that only a complete retard would buy even if they reduced their prices by 80%.

>>1065359

It should be gayt. Because they're fags.

>>1065469

>cheap garbage

I think you mean expensive garbage. These keyboards are over-engineered as fuck and needlessly different than others to shave off 1mm of case height that no-one cares about.

>>1065470

The proper term is Veblen garbage.

>>1065470

I have a hard time believing that it's not cheaply made. Apple's hardware is flimsy as shit. Everything else is garbage as well, but Apple created this trend, and is still in the lead. They have the worst designs and some of the worst build quality on the planet, to the point that they dragged the entire industry to the fucking gutter. There is no way in hell that making this trash costs them that much. Right?

>>1065473

They've been doing it since 1993. The 1997 Bondi-Blue iMac used parts stamped "Foxconn 1993", sold at 2x market rate, and as 'top of the line'. Same story, never changes.

Apple is China. Kill China.

>>1065546

>My hypothesis is that women never actually use the keyboard so they just don't notice.

Very likely. Last time I used the keys of a womans laptop they were so dirty I used the vacuum cleaner on them, kek.

>>1065459

That was sarcastic mate

>>1065703

The reason that iPhones will always be expensive relative to everything else is that iPhones are a luxury brand. If iPhones are perceived as "cheap" it defeats the purpose.

>>1065704

True. But Apple still needs to back up the whole "Luxury" claim and they do that with shit like in-house chips/motherboards. in-house OS, and higher spec'd screens. Its shit that doesn't matter one fucking bit for the average person unless they're in the market and have the money. Its like Rolex vs a cheap Seiko Watch. both have automatic movements, but only the Rolex has the level of craftsmanship that while it doesn't matter to us poorfags probably will to someone with a hole burning through their wallets

>>1065707

The price certainly gives them room to perform up to. Craftsmanship is definitely on display. All I'm saying (as someone who can't stand Android, likes [jailbroken] iOS, and is awaiting a Librem 5) is that the price is set beforehand, and independently of what's inside.

>>1065546

You boys. I used to work at a used laptop repair store. When the most obese nerd comes in I could tell "ThinkPad T440 for the fat boyo". He comes in and buys the ThinkPad to fit in with his shitlord masters back on /pol/. What shocks me is that nobody, not one, ever comes back asking for a refund for the trackpad. Even though all their hair and lice got beneath the trackpad, they never come back.

My assumption is that men only buy ThinkPads because they're insecure about their dick sizes...

and that they don't even use the trackpad because it's shit.

>>1065713

>back on /pol/.

t. sucks tranny dick and copy pastes other peoples stories on his iPhone to shit on /pol/ while being on /tech/ in a thread about how Apple devices are garbage

>insecure about their dick sizes...

Ahh now I get it. You actually want to suck on my big dick while I play around with my retro T43 (didn't buy it; got it for free)

>>1065703

How is an "Apple-made" ARM chip better than any other? They're the exact same chink-made crap from chinkland. Just with an Apple logo on it.

Apple is part of PRISM, so maybe it's even worse and has extra hardware spyware inside.

>>1065710

>>1065714

>Craftsmanship

TOPKEK

>I hate Android now

>finding something good makes you hate what you had before

You should read your own sentences before you post them, shill.

>to me shit like filesystem access is really not necessary

So you can only install applications from the store like a good slave.

I want to remind you that you just denigrated the positives of Android with no arguments in favor of iOS

>that can browse the web, do basic media shit, and maybe run a handful of usermode applications

Surprise: You can do that with any operating system!

>bought a new iPad out of curiosity

Hey shillstein, nobody buys such an expensive piece of shit out of curiosity.

>>1065923

>How is an "Apple-made" ARM chip better than any other? They're the exact same chink-made crap from chinkland. Just with an Apple logo on it.

1.) Apple does a lot of design tweaks and has a lot more custom silicon on top of the otherwise bare-bone ARM cores. An example is the Apple A8X that was tri-core. IIRC no stock tri-core ARM designs exist. It’s basically Qualcomm levels of custom chip design but Qualcomm doesn’t make their own devices and have a thousand OEMs licensing them. Apple doesn’t because they don’t want to, it’s not how they work.

2.) The main SoC comes from TSMC while the memory can come from TSMC or the USA. Taiwan is not the same as mainland Commie China despite what China wants you to believe

>>1065923

iPads are like what 300 bucks new? That’s not that much unless you’re a massive poor rag

>>1065928

*poorfag

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>>1065931

Sage for samefag, I'm not even finished yet, I forgot about updates.

iOS 12 came out this year in 2019, it supports devices as old as 2013. This level of support is unheard of in the Android world. Can you imagine Samsung releasing Android P for the Galaxy S4? Because I sure as fuck can't. Android devices, including thousand dollar ones, are fucking dead in terms of support after 2 years tops. By that time Android could've gotten shit like new security updates but your ass is left behind. I get Google can't just push out Android updates for all available hardware on the market, but what the fuck is Samsungs excuse for example? Samsung isn't a small company. If Apple can support their shit Samsung surely could do the same thing right? They don't fucking care. They never cared

>>1065546

>My hypothesis is that women never actually use the keyboard so they just don't notice.

Thinking about it now, I've never seen a chick use the keyboard. Just scroll and tap through Instagram.

>>1065713

excellent simulation of a woman-tier reply

>>1065478

>1998 bondi blue imac

>top of the line

No. Retards have always thought this, and it's never been true. The last couple years are only an exception because Apple refuses to update their actual top of the line computer, the Mac Pro.

The iMac sold because it was colorful in a beige world, had USB ports and was relatively inexpensive. It also had the slowest G3 CPU Apple ever sold at 233 MHz, a pitifully small amount of standard RAM at 32 MB, and a low resolution screen intended for 800x600 that could also be set to 1024x768. It was marketed as an appliance that retards could plug into the wall and get themselves online with in 10 minutes without help. If you wanted a top of the line Mac in 1998 to get work done with, you'd spend about three times as much and buy a much nicer beige Power Mac G3 desktop or minitower with a 333 MHz CPU, 128 MB of standard RAM and a standalone 1600x1200 monitor.

t. upgraded from a IIvx to a beige G3 desktop in 1997

Saging because the thread is dead and I'm not contributing anything of value.