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Any rhyme or reason to getting a TSMC over Samsung!
- Thread starter Damn Dirty Ape
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Techs at the Apple store told me that they do not have refurbs in at the moment. They are all brand new. My replacement that I received two days ago is brand spanking new.
I agree. In my own experience both the TSMC and Samsung a9's perform very similarly. I haven't noticed any difference in performance or battery life.
Cool numbers batman.
Let me also throw some random numbers.
99% really don't give a ****. 99% don't even know Samsung makes chips. 99% don't even know what TSMC stands for.
And I can almost bet a large amount of people don't even know what the **** 3D touch is.
Or that you can take videos landscape.
Or that they forgot to unsubscribe from Apple Music trial.
Same.
I was told by the store manager at my local Apple Store that the phones are sent back to the factory for disassembly, the parts are then checked and recycled into a new chassis and sold as a refurbished unit. Seems like a very lengthy process.
In Europe Apple Store still have a return policy similar to US's
Most probably the display isn't defective at all .....
Same. Excellent battery life and zero issues in general. No reason what so ever to get it changed when it's doing exactly what it's supposed to.
Not sure if that's the right word, but they are definitely not normal.
There is no such thing as a perfect phone, and this chip thing is silly, and no two chips will have the same exact performance. They may get a slightly faster processor , but slower memory. It's a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people that would do something like this.
You could not possibly know this is 95%.... You made it up.
Apple does not sell returned or opened products as new, so this is not true unless they are dealing with a 3rd party seller.
The real reports show actually they do that, they dont really sell it, they do in the early hot sales period and when someone just returns the phone and wants a replacement. Actually for replacement, they would even just give them a refurbishment after they have enough return number and have done the refurbishment process. The refurbishment phone is packaged exactly same as a real new one just the model number has some different, they don't sell refurbishment as a total new one but they replace people phone with that or use that if someone has a damaged phone and needs a new one through apple care or within warranty period.
If you don't know something, that doesn't mean it is impossible and I made it up:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...samsung-not-segmented-by-device-size.1923095/
and use this:
http://demo.hiraku.tw/CPUIdentifier/
click Detailed Distribution
then click Taiwan
6s+ Samsung: 90.84 %
better than what I knew around a month ago, but not much better.
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True. I was starting to fear that there wouldn't be another thread on this.
Someone on another forum has exchanged seventeen times trying to get a TSMC...and every single one has been a Samsung.
Wow. I thought my 4+ exchanges with my 4s were bad enough! (though, mine did have valid defects like dead pixels and broken wifi)
I'd like to add that before I returned my Samsung 6s (I returned my phone due to screen defects, not the chip), my battery life was amazing. On most days, I could easily reach 7-8 hours with my heavy Safari/Twitter/Snapchat usage, and Low Power Mode sealed the deal.