Sleazy Apple sued again!

jay birdsong

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May 15, 2013, 9:37:37 AM5/15/13

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"Just works" has been replaced by "Always broke".

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/15/apple-iphone-button-lawsuit/?source=yahoo_quote

Woman buys an iPhone 4. Fifteen months later the power button stops
working. She calls AT&T (T). They send her to Apple (AAPL). She works
her way up and down the customer service chain and gets tough love at
every turn: Her warranty expired three months ago. She has two
choices. Pay for repair ($149 plus shipping) or buy new phone.

She goes to the Internet. Finds a thread on Apple's community support
site with hundreds of complaints about the same power button. It's
been viewed 720,525 times. Finds YouTube video with workarounds viewed
more than million times. Finds iFixit instructions for replacing the
power button's faulty flex cord that includes a step 29 rated
"difficult."

Adopting the consensus view that the iPhone 4's power button problem
is a known manufacturing defect, and buying into the tin-foil-hat
theory that it's carefully planned obsolescence -- a part designed to
go bad right after the 1-year warranty expires -- she files a class
action suit under RICO (the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act) for $5 million plus.

This case has resonance because we expect better of Apple. The iPhone
has exactly five moving parts. Is it too much to ask that they be
engineered to last the life of the device?

Justin

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May 15, 2013, 4:38:10 PM5/15/13

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On Wed, 15 May 2013 09:37:37 -0400, jay birdsong wrote:

> This case has resonance because we expect better of Apple. The iPhone
> has exactly five moving parts. Is it too much to ask that they be
> engineered to last the life of the device?

I just shit my pants.
I should sue Phil's Pizza. Best fucking Sicilian pizza I've had in years,
and its right down the street!

jay birdsong

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May 15, 2013, 6:12:41 PM5/15/13

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"Justin" wrote in message
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Well, eating out has it's risks. Almost like Russian Roulette. I
always avoid eating salads and anything not served sizzling hot. I
also sanitize my tableware. I also drink lots of alcohol; Vodka
Martini is my choice.

It works this way: Poncho, who makes the salad among other things,
goes and drops a hot steamer. While wiping his ass he gets shit on
his finger. When he leaves the bathroom he neglects washing his
hands. Then he mixes the salad with his hands and puts it on your
plate. You eat Ponchos shit and exclaim with gusto "That was the best
salad I ever ate; or in your case, "Best fucking Sicilian pizza blah,
blah, blah". Then you go home and shit a quart of blood.

Taking a 10 Billion CFU Probiotic daily, can help strengthen your
intestinal flora.

Tommy Troll

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May 15, 2013, 6:21:15 PM5/15/13

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What does not kill you makes you stronger.

jay birdsong

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May 15, 2013, 6:47:33 PM5/15/13

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"Tommy Troll" wrote in message
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True.

Try shitting a quart of blood a day for a week. You can consider that
a "near death experience".

Justin

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May 15, 2013, 9:46:09 PM5/15/13

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The fishie took the same bait twice! It's almost as bad as a stray dog eating its own vomit.
Do you eat your own vomit?

jay birdsong

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May 15, 2013, 10:07:18 PM5/15/13

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We do know you ate Phil's shit - and loved it.

Justin

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May 15, 2013, 10:23:44 PM5/15/13

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Two birds with one stone! You fell for your own bait and resorted to a
fourth grade level attempt as an insult.
Use some of that legendary aspie intellect and think of something better.

Laszlo Lebrun

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May 15, 2013, 11:14:57 PM5/15/13

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On 15.05.2013 15:37, jay birdsong wrote:
> The iPhone has exactly five moving parts. Is it too much to ask that
> they be engineered to last the life of the device?

Indeed they precisely are...
;-)

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One computer and three operating systems, not the other way round.
One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)