This is like the comments on their YouTube videos- oh wait...
Those never existed.
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Apple Pulls Reviews From Online Store Product Listings
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I like this. In the least, we know to a degree the user is tied to Apple in some form or fashion with that specific product, and/or, the product being reviewed should be verified it’s owned by the user _before_ they can leave initial feedback.
This is absolute BS. Many of the reviews on the site were quite detailed and helped me avoid being suckered into buying overpriced, flimsy crap accessories and cables being sold there
Perhaps a Grey Goose even...
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Superb point.
Apple loves fake reviews if they are positive
I believe that is called “iJustine”
Apple has been less than transparent lately, seems the iPhone battery debacle taught them nothing.
With the exception of one lightning cable (that I don’t use), all the rest have broken for me. Most of my MagSafe chargers have broken, and both my smart battery cases broke. Not that they worked well initially, they didn’t like anything plugged in to the lightning port.
If you were able to detect the fake reviews, perhaps everyone else could too, so the fake reviews are doing nothing.
Are you buying from Amazon or eBay? Many of those are cheap counterfeits.
Or maybe your just unlucky, or rough on your things. I’ve never had issues with MagSafe or Lightning cables over many years including traveling with them, never used the battery cases.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I like to know what people think. On the other hand, not every person reviewing gives a proper review, which skews the rating. Consider iTunes reviews. Almost every record is 4 or 5 stars. Why? Because the fans want their favorite artists to be reviewed well. Objective and smart reviews are typically buried in the mass of tripe.
Youtube reviewers could possibly have had the case hours after it was announced, so that review might not necessarily be fake. They get the products directly from Apple up to a week before they go on sale for the general public and post their unboxing and review videos during that time as soon as Apple lets them. iJustine, for example, always gets the new iPhones around a week before they go on sale (around the same time when preorders open for everyone else) and posts her unboxing and review videos at least three days before launch day. Also, there have been some new products that have been available at Apple Stores right after the keynote where they were announced, so anyone could get them and review them on the website just hours after their announcement. This includes accessories such as new Apple Watch bands.
I wouldn’t mind if those bad reviews are legitimate. For the same products, the rating on Amazon With verified purchase is usually 2 or 3 stars higher.
They may develop at least the "seal breaking on the Lightning end" problem during indoors use (without any extreme conditions like sunlight or high temps). Has happened to about 20-25% of my cables over the years.
Of course we do. And you actually believe that somehow that also magically gives you the right, the right, to post about it on someone else’s website?? My god. Please tell us where this “right” comes from. And then please share this reference with the thousands upon thousands of web vendors who don’t have review sections on their web sites. In fact, please share with my supermarket, as well as every store in the world, because I don’t remember seeing reviews next to all the products on their shelves. After all, this “right” to display your opinion on someone else’s property can’t possibly be restricted to web commerce.
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Absolutely, when I think of that 1984 commercial, Apple is becoming the very thing in that video that they were suggesting they were opposed to.
Now Apple is becoming the “big brother” evil oppressor and Microsoft is starting to look like the less restrictive alternative
Lol - yes the “Ministry of Truth” reminds us not to lust or desire “replaceable memory” and “upgradeable SSDs” and not to read the forbidden documents of repairs
Big Brother is watching and may disable iCloud sync if we don’t behave
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This board is full of haters, but also full of people that think Bad Apple review = Fake.
Like Apple cannot do anything bad.
The thing is, the issue lies in Apple's review mechanism, how can one rate something that has not purchased?
It is hard to implement a "verified purchase" a la Amazon?
I find it entertaining to read some comments (as in some are really stupid), from both sides, and I believe the truth is in the middle.
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Your money is very important to us!!!!
*Your opinions, not so much....
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Like Apple cannot do anything bad.
The thing is, the issue lies in Apple's review mechanism, how can one rate something that has not purchased?
It is hard to implement a "verified purchase" a la Amazon?
I find it entertaining to read some comments (as in some are really stupid), from both sides, and I believe the truth is in the middle.
Since Apple is a company (so nothing against Apple pre se) it should read:
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Your money is very important to us!!!!
*Your opinions, not so much....
"
Where are the usual Apple defenders!? This is a perfect time to conjure up a pathetic excuse for Apple.
Incredibly poor showing by Apple here, this is clearly due to complaints around their buggy iOS 13 rollout.
Indeed
Incredibly poor showing by Apple here, this is clearly due to complaints around their buggy iOS 13 rollout.