Week of July 15th, 2011

[Troy King]

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July 15th, 2011

Listener Email

Troy,

Don’t buy HP! They are totally incompetent! I have an HP laptop not even a year old and the hard drive is dead with unrepeatable bad sectors. I called HP (in India, no less), and they sent me out a new hard drive post haste. The promised me that they would also send the proper recovery media to reinstall Windows 7. I get the new hard rive, but guess what? No recovery media! Only two worthless supplemental discs! So now I am back on the phone trying to get them to send me the correct discs and it’s going to take another week to get what I should have had in the first place. I am totally furious!

Keep up the good work, man.

Pete from California

Netflix’s Price Hike
Increased prices by $6 / month
Blog is maxed out with rage
Hotline is overwhelmed
Unlimited Streaming 7.99
1 DVD 7.99
2 DVD 11.99
Streaming plus 1 DVD 15.98
Streaming plus 2 DVD 19.98
Originally streaming plus 2 DVD was 7.99
Increase of $1, then $6, now $3 more!

Apple Slashes Australian App Store Prices To Match US
premium apps have still received a price-cut
still more spendy than in US
$8.99, $9.99 and $11.99 apps dropping to $8.49, $9.49 and $10.49
Angry customers and Australian Government for local price markups

Media war: Free Press vs Media Consolidation
Combining resources of competing networks aka “outsourcing your news”
Potential FCC violations
Newport Television participating in covert media consolidation
Free Press called Newport out and briefly showed website and logo in video
found over 200 stations engaged in covert consolidation in 80 communities
Newport issues “cease-and-desist” and filed copyright violation

HTC to start unlocking bootloaders in August
HTC EVO 3D and the HTC Sensation have been released with a locked bootloader
People upset that HTC hasn’t held to their promise yet
From HTC “While we wish we could flip a simple switch and unlock all bootloaders across our device portfolio, this is actually a complex challenge that requires a new software build and extensive testing to deliver the best possible customer experience.”
You shouldn’t have locked them to begin with!
Wasted money, wasted time, angry customers!