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Steve Jobs was evil af

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.

The missing part was a brand new iPhone or two.

what did Steve Jobs even do except for management and marketing, and why does he then get the praise for the hardware/software???

Fake and gay. They will never say your device has parts missing since they know most customers aren't that stupid. They most of the time say you have water damage or it's too old for repair.

The Apple Genius Bar sucks ass. But let's not pretend like any of the other big tech companies do any better. At least Apple has a physical store where they can fuck you over in person. Try getting Samsung shit repaired. In most countries they let a 3rd party company do the handling and repairs and you can't visit that company. You have to send it in and if they deem your device unrepairable or "not" broken they send it back and you have to pay for shipping both ways even if the device falls under warranty and sometimes they send it back more broken then when it left your hands. While communication happens solely trough email.

Real story: A friend of mine used his iPhone on his motorcycle and it messed up the OIS. He went to Apple, said they wouldn't fix it. He went to a third party and they told him they basically have to beg Apple to fix it and get parts so he'd have to leave his phone for a week to MAYBE get it fixed by the grace of the big fruit. He bought a new iPhone. I still don't understand why.

Apple absolutely does NOT slow old phones when they send out new updates. Anymore.

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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.

Ascend to Fairphone

Apple a bad company? Really? I neeeeever eeeeever heard anything bad about aaaaaple.

No shit Sherlock, it'd obvious AF. It's one of the wealthiest companies in the world. They didn't get all that money with honesty. Child labor, slave labor, ripping off consumers, creating a whole new level of corporate greed. Apple is as evil as you can get. Just like Nvidia, Shell, Google, Nestlé, etc.

When Apple can't exploit poor minorities with targeted ads, things will get better. Probably the most overvalued company out there rn. People don't realize how much Apple does to keep their pop culture status. It's getting harder an harder to maintain, but it will never truly go away.