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As you're upset, have you voted with your wallet and purchased competitor tech products, rather than Apple's?
Well that's some rose-colored crap. Do you realize how much better their machines are now than they used to be? Remember cracking cases, flaking Titanium, discolored plastic, etc. etc.?
Yawn. Article seems to have been thrown together without much or any research.
OFILM sold it's assets for Apple cameras to wingtech.
OFILM was cut off from Apple due to forced labor practices.
Wingtech =/= OFILM
Any report from a month ago saying Wintech was delisted is hogwash. You realize that is like 5 weeks ago? Think about why that is outrageous for a second.
Thank you and have a nice day.
OFILM sold it's assets for Apple cameras to wingtech.
OFILM was cut off from Apple due to forced labor practices.
Wingtech =/= OFILM
Any report from a month ago saying Wintech was delisted is hogwash. You realize that is like 5 weeks ago? Think about why that is outrageous for a second.
Thank you and have a nice day.
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True but the Air design was unheard of at the time so right or wrong consumers were paying for a drastically brand new form factor the rest of the industry had never seen.
Lower quality does not mean higher margins. It actually means the opposite.
Lower quality = More defects = More warranty claims = More laptop replacements = More customer insatisfaction
In the post-Jobs era, that’s what the board and the shareholders wanted. Tim serves them first and foremost. And he’s excelled at it by making Apple a trillion dollar company.
That said, he’s also done a stellar job in navigating the transition to Apple silicon and shepherding the overall product strategy. Apple still feels like Apple and their products still far exceed anything else in the smartphone, tablet and PC markets. I have to give him credit for that.
It depends how you handle it... if you claim "you are .... it wrong" then it can save you a lot of money!
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You have NO IDEA how many defects get released (in any company) with the "we will fix it later" attitude, many people will not even know it was a known defect (call center are not allowed to say that) and the umber of affected customers that requires a free fix is lower than you think.
I used to work at a HUGE computer company, they released defective computer knowingly, they were fixing people demanding free repair, but the number of free repair was lower than the paid one.Is it a good thing to do? NO, but that doesn't stop companies.
Heck even Apple does the same, they admit defects after lawsuits.
Yeah, that kinda makes him the best CEO of the tech industry. Lol. Generating revenue is his primary job. I think it’s admirable. Jobs was just as aggressive as Cook if not worse. The only difference between the two is that Jobs was a device guy. Jobs was obsessively involved with every tiny detail. Cook thrives at delegating, which makes him a better and more effective CEO. The question is would Apple became the tech-giant it is today if Jobs was still at the helm?
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I will hold off on my purchase of the new machine now, don't want to end up with one of these duds. I am sure there will be some model number information floating around to make the distinction, at least I hope.
not rly sadly ....ya gotta buy one ,try it ,see if it has problems ,return it if that's the case ,get another one , knock your head on the wall when u discover the display in the second one is good but the keyboard isn't ,so u get another one and it has troubles wuth the bottom pad being wobbly .
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I really hope they meet up with the standard quality. Finger's are crossed.
Aside from the jelly scroll on the screen, which is a design defect and not a manufacturing defect, what issues are there with it?
and that's why i specified "after taxes", which account for the 21% here, so around 350 USD. How about in the US, what's the average tax for electronic products?
My wife told me she would like the new MacBook Air to have white bezels, a white keyboard, and the same color options as the iMacs. I think she is right
Yeah, but it all just comes down to the cost of labor.
You also don't know what Apple might have been offered to keep the manufacturing in China. I think it's exceptionally foolish for a whole country to not have the capacity to make things on their own soil, but it's a global economy now, and things like country don't matter anymore. All nations will grant you entry if you have something to offer.
According to Google the average for the US is 6.35%. So an additional 76 USD (on average).
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I hope there was some kind of inspection process to make sure that the manufacturing will be up to snuff.
Still, there's always the 2-week return period, so test yo' stuff, folks!
Still, there's always the 2-week return period, so test yo' stuff, folks!
wow. why risk your reputation a second time with a company in China that has already been found to manufacture poor quality products.
What happen to moving manufacturing to Vietnam ??
What happen to moving manufacturing to Vietnam ??
all that needs to happen to ruin the Apple silicon transition is the build quality and defect problems start showing up in these new Macs and people won't buy. older Intel machines or Hackintosh instead.
Personally I'm wandering about the shelf life of the SSD. The SSD starts failing it may be too expensive to fix. An expensive throw away.
Windows 11 builds in the future will require the use of SSD over standard hard drive but they are still user replaceable.
Personally I'm wandering about the shelf life of the SSD. The SSD starts failing it may be too expensive to fix. An expensive throw away.
Windows 11 builds in the future will require the use of SSD over standard hard drive but they are still user replaceable.
Eh I know...
Paid my Mac Studio 5600 Euros, and it was the 48-Core 1TB option (128GB though)
Jelly scroll not only depends on the orientation but the quality of the controller. It could have at least been mitigated with higher quality parts (ex. iPad Pro) but between the quality and design choice it was amplified.
Aside from literally the main thing you look at being poor quality you can add in things like poor response time (29ms), brightness is advertised as 500 but in tests barely hits 450, lower clock speed A15 clock speed than iPhone counterpart, users reporting screen pressure issues when writing or touching certain areas of the panel especially the outer edge, users complained about chassis “creaking” noises which I had as well, and lastly the buttons are of relatively poor quality as they have an unnecessary amount of play.
What you may call a design flaw I call poor quality.