Fail?
Is that what people say instead of writing complete sentences these days? It's pretty sad how horrible education has gotten in this country where all people know how to do is type short-hand and post slang all the time. No wonder today's kids can't find a job. Companies expect actual communication skills.
Apple is not "fleecing" you, or anyone else (in this case).
What makes you qualified to decide what is and what is not fleecing for everyone else?
It would have been just as easy to disable the connector, forcing you to go buy 4 more authorized cables.
It would have been easy for you to not hit reply with your condescending unsolicited comments, but that didn't stop you.
It continually amazes me how many of the same people who think every government agency and employee is out to screw them over and shouldn't be making decisions in their lives are 100% OK with private corporations and their upper management making the same types of decisions that affect their lives by telling them what they can and cannot do or use with the things they buy. It's a kind of reverse hypocrisy. To me, it doesn't matter if Big Brother is the government, a shadow government agency (like the NSA and its own subsidiaries) or some giant mega-corporation like Apple, NONE of them should be telling me what I can and cannot do with and on my own property when it doesn't harm anyone else.
Furthermore, Apples financial practices make sense. Apple is going to make sure the profit margin is where it needs to be. Making Apple pay more in taxes just makes you pay more for your next iDevice.
So hooray for all the mega-rich corporations? They need to fleece some more money out your wallet. But hey, you're happy to give them 10x the value what they're worth so why don't you go do that instead of telling us what to think?
People who rant and rave about how Apple is greedy, knock off cables are just as good, etc. remind me of the saying that went something like, "The problem is not that people are ignorant. The problem is so much that they think they know is wrong."
This all reminds me of those people on the Star Trek Next Generation episode that thought because a storm was approaching with some "scary" lightning that "The Picard" must be angry with them. What does The Picard want? It's still raining so he must want a sacrifice since we've prayed for the scary thunder to stop and yet the storm continues!
trag·e·dy /ˈtrajidē/ Noun - 1. An event Democrats, liberals, Socialists, and others who worship at the trough of govt, exploit to reduce liberty & grow govt. See also; Borg, Communists, Useful Idiots.
Hey, if you cannot win an argument through intelligence and logical arguments, just throw the "idiot" word around as if that somehow makes you appear smarter, when in fact it does just the opposite.
Right, Left, Center; it makes no difference. If you have to resort to name calling, you've already lost. If you let some party do your thinking for you, then you've lost your right to free speech as far as I'm concerned as you've become little more than someone who parrots someone else's ideas. Frankly, I find your use of the word "Borg" to be very ironic.
