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Apple Soliciting Customer Feedback With New 'Pulse' Program
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If this is a scam, we should get to the bottom of it because a lot of us gave out personal information including our addresses Apple credentials and email address.
I don't think it's fake, but perhaps that is wishful thinking.
I got one too and filled it all out... If it's a scam how'd they know we all were Apple users? But I'm f'd it its fraud
Exactly what I was thinking! Except like someone else said, the actually website doesn't look legit.
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What to do with suspicious emails
If you receive a suspicious email, select the message's text so that it is highlighted. Then, choose Forward as Attachment from the Message menu (Mac OS X Mail) or the Action menu (Outlook). Send the email to reportphishing@apple.com. This provides Apple's legal department and law enforcement with useful information to help prevent future phishing emails.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2075
What to do with suspicious emails
If you receive a suspicious email, select the message's text so that it is highlighted. Then, choose Forward as Attachment from the Message menu (Mac OS X Mail) or the Action menu (Outlook). Send the email to reportphishing@apple.com. This provides Apple's legal department and law enforcement with useful information to help prevent future phishing emails.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2075
I'm participating
It's your standard survey questions detailing your past purchases and likes/dislikes. There is at least a section for comments about what we would like to see. I asked for more AirPlay integration and display mirroring over ATV.
It's your standard survey questions detailing your past purchases and likes/dislikes. There is at least a section for comments about what we would like to see. I asked for more AirPlay integration and display mirroring over ATV.
They don't need to just send it to Apple users; they could have sent it to thousands of Windows users as well, but of course we wouldn't hear about those cases here. Of course, the hardcore anti-Apple people will just ignore it, but everyone who has so much as an iPod will fill it out.
BTW, does an Apple ID require an 8-character minimum password? Because I'm pretty sure it asked for an 8-character minimum password to be created. Maybe they were hoping you'd use the same pword twice?
EDIT: the text at the bottom of the email makes it seem more legit:
Clicking the "My Apple ID" button takes you to a secure site that is undeniably Apple's.
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Not all of us want all digital delivery, especially with more and more ISP's having bandwidth monitoring and capping. And I d enjoy movies in BluRay for quality, and a nice backup medium. In short, a Blu-Ray drive would be welcome, even if they just updated their external superdrive to include blu-ray
If I have a specific problem with one of their products that I own, I will leave feedback in the appropriate location.
This is just their market research.
If you feel like giving them free market research, more power to you.
If they mentioned that every single one of my suggestions (i.e crossfading in the ipod app) will be addressed, I may be interested.
Otherwise, if you want me to spend my time filling out forms to help them advertise to me better, throw me an itunes point card or something.
But go ahead, be their lackey.
It runs like crap on every PC I've owned, and my friends PC's.
But because it runs fine on Mac they shouldn't improve it?
Flash runs flawlessly on Windows, I guess they shouldn't improve it for Mac?
He's probably one Windows 98
Windows 7 64-bit
And I'm a person, not a copy of Windows 98.
2.8Ghz i7 Processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, ATI 5650 1GB Video Card
I guess I just dont have the "oomph" to run iTunes.
the more Apple lists to the public the less magic they provide. I really like the way they design stuff in a bubble away from public view. Like Ford said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Looks fake to me. When I click this link "Would like to join?" and it took me to error page: http://survey.sotech.com/xxxxxx/start.asp?s=1 which it looks like this: http://cl.ly/0F2J1C0S2f2R0y3L3O47
You can also blame management for this. I'm tired of people being given the benefit of the doubt individually for this crap... if there's more than a couple of people that clearly have no idea what they're talking about it, it's a management screw up in hiring and/or training and needs to be fixed.
Don't mind me forming a bandwagon; I'm just irritated.
It runs like crap on every PC I've owned, and my friends PC's.
But because it runs fine on Mac they shouldn't improve it?
Flash runs flawlessly on Windows, I guess they shouldn't improve it for Mac?
Windows 7 64-bit
And I'm a person, not a copy of Windows 98.
2.8Ghz i7 Processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, ATI 5650 1GB Video Card
I guess I just dont have the "oomph" to run iTunes.
Honestly, running 'like crap' on that PC should be a "hey, something's wrong here" rather than a "stupid iTunes". I've a very similar system just with a different gpu and it springs up like a daisy. I would look into what you have loading at boot up and running in the background b/c I have seen some notable performance issues with iTunes when there's a decent bit of 'background noise' so to speak. Then again, 'NOTHING ON LOAD UP' is kind of my MO with PCs and every one I own gets beaten with msconfig immediately. :/
My startup programs are my Anti-Virus, my email client, and MSN Messenger.
Ive reinstalled iTunes a few times already. It's not startup, it happens any time. It literally takes between 20-30 seconds to appear.
Yes during my normal use, there will be a few dozen processes running, but they use about 1.8GB of the 6GB of RAM installed, and my processor will be idling at 0-1% when I start it.
It's the constant Zombie iTunes that pisses me off, plus when it locks up whenever I plug an iDevice in.
I cant believe we arent getting an update on this from Arn. Did the Apple press just lure thousands into getting their Apple ID's phished?
But why do that when they would have to pay royalty to Sony for every Mac sold? And why do that when the cost of a Superdrive is so much less then a cost of a Blu-Ray drive? You wanna know why... Margins... Greed... If Apple had to shell out $50 more dollars for every Mac sold for a Blu-Ray drive, they would have to eat the cost... They couldn't pass it on to the consumer because their prices are already so high to begin with, although I'm sure if they did it in a BTO option many people would opt to pay the extra $$ to get Bluray.