Hardware

billgate

Cuz the display costs more than half the cost of the whole unit most times… its pretty fucked up.

You'd thing -gates would be a Microsoft thing

It's just sensationalism. Talk to some people who own macbooks these days that came from windows laptops of the mid and late 2010s, the difference in build quality is night and day. My macbook pro didn't cost any more than any other windows laptop I've ever bought and is the only one that didn't have some catastrophic issue in the first two years of ownership (blown out speakers, frayed proprietary charging cable, broken keys, bulging battery, cracked plastic body etc).

Even in cases of design flaws I've never heard of someone having to pay to fix them even well outside the warranty and applecare period. Similar rampant design flaws in the world of plastic laptops just go ignored.

because apple keeps denying that all of these flaws are not flaws but "made that way to make your life better"

so the more flaws an apple product has, the more it's supposed to make your life magical!

if they admitted to errors, then there wouldn't be -gate... for example, butterfly-keyboard-gate - just admit the whole thing sucks and tell the truth. That keyboard sucks.

Same as for the touchbar - you notice they don't say anything about it. Just say "the touch bar isn't performing the way we envisioned it, so we're killing it" instead of saying "touchbar is the greatest thing!" but then pull support and don't update it in the 7 years since 2016 and then kill it silently.

Because look how well it works, this is once again an Apple hatebait thread that tops /r/hardware , as is tradition.

Well, Apple has a pattern of obvious screwups like Butterfly keyboard and obsolescence scams like the whole SSD design.

Unless they stop these anti-consumer policies everything Apple does is Gate worthy.

Controversialgate?

Why is everything compared to watergate? Its ridiculous

Nixon's real crime was that we still have to put up with this shit half a century later.

getting a “-gate” name is a common occurrence in today journalism and not just a single exclusive apple thing.

Spectacular and embarrassing failure usually gets -gate added. Like Deflategate, and more. Watergate started the -gate fails.

No other 1000+ laptop out there and this isn’t even the M lineup

Because every design flaw from Apple is a Feature-not-a-Bug™, costs a fortune to fix and they don't fix it for free without immense publicity pressure.

Even then, it's a goodwill, they did nothing wrong.

"What, take the last 4 letters of a previous scandal or hotel and add them onto all future scandals? That can't be the system."

"I think it is."

The -gate suffix normally means that it’s a controversy, cover-up, or scandal. So if someone feels it’s one of those, it’ll get the -gate postfix. It originates from the watergate scandal, but has become a more popularized suffix.

In short, if it’s a design flaw and Apple is ignoring, downplaying, or denying it, it becomes a -gate since people feel like it’s a coverup. I guess you could also call them a controversy too.

Apple set expectations with their marketing, and reinforce them with their pricing. Why does someone always try and defend the richest corporation on the planet when they get caught undercutting those expectations?

Yep. Can't believe they haven't figured this out yet. And if that issue is anything to go by, they will only cover repairs for a subset of the affected models. And tell you to get fucked otherwise.