Get yourself a pocket president to legitimize everything you do and crime becomes legal.

That was fun to watch

inb4 "I got mine for ""free"" from Tmobile!"

You pay $60 for $25 service to pay off a phone that Tmobile already bought 50k units of.

You will eventually pay for it, and more.

I couldn't get a 5 € USB port exchanged on warranty because of a small tear in the screen. Because those fuckers glued the screen on. I wish I had had the energy and time to sue them for warranty. Not my problem if they make their shit harder to repair.

Edit: Was for Nokia, not Apple.

I've worked in a repair shop before, and we would actually do similar with specific devices. The difference with us I guess is that we wouldn't take it for repair without you consenting to that prior to us even checking in the device. For things like the original Microsoft Surfaces, and some Lenovo laptops, they're glued together so tightly that opening them up to fix something is basically impossible without breaking the screen that is on it.

Also with us if we took it for repair and couldn't fix it, it either had to come back in the same condition, or we fronted the bill for a replacement.

None of this applies to phones at all though. I'd be really interested to hear what device was so difficult that they couldn't repair it, because all current gen Samsung, Apple and Google Pixel devices are definitely repairable, as long as you have the proper software tools.

yeah iphone XS, same experience, have done 2 battery replacements now no issues

Crime against humanity, and a crime against the planet.

I don't think android has much to do with hardware but I could be wrong

Buy fairphone!

As a matter of fact, yes!

They admitted they intentionally slowed down old phones with iOS updates.

The thing with smartphones is that they're already good enough. Almost every app is designed to work on a 5yo phone that cost 100 bucks when it was new, so having 16 times the processing power isn't really useful unless it results in better battery life.

Yes and no. There are two reasons this half truth refuses to die.

1. IOS does this obnoxious thing after updates where it no longer trusts its index. It changed something about how the index works so rather than update the existing data to the new slightly different format, they say fuck it and reindex the entire phones data. This background process consumes battery and can last up to a week. So people notice the battery life get worse, but they never notice it getting better after the indexing stops and goes back to only noticing changes.
2. Apple had a big problem a while back where their phones could draw too much power from the batteries. It was fine when new, but as the battery aged, it wasn’t able to deliver stable power to the SoC under heavy loads, making the phone unstable and crashy. So apple just limited the max power the SoC could draw on phones where the otherwise perfectly functional battery could be pushed hard enough to cause problems. It’s annoying, and they could have been more clear, but the rationale was sound. Few will notice a slightly slower phone. Many will notice a phone that suddenly powers off when playing a game.

Apple does a lot of things wrong but they also do a lot of things right. We really need to pick more rational reasons to hate on apple if we ever expect them to give a shit about our opinions.

So, I've got Samsung appliances that I deeply hate. I didn't purchase them on purpose, they were in the house when we bought it.

If there is a power outage or brown out the control hangs on the fridge and it stops cooling. It has to be reset. To reset, you have to press two touch screen buttons. You have to hit it just right, the press has to be closely synchronized and then hold for 10sec, my girl is unable to get it.

The Samsung oven is currently sitting in the yard in a junk pile to be disposed of. Replaced that hunk of shit with a 1970s GE mechanically controlled stove. Had to replace the indicator lights and the timer unit due to age. Cooks better than the Samsung ever did.

House also came with a Samsung washer and dryer, I'm just waiting for them to do some stupid shit.

I did buy a Samsung TV, it's decent but I am fighting a low-level enshittification war on all the ads and shit it keeps installing. It has particular features that means I don't completely lobotomize it and keep some of the smart TV stuff.

I guess what I'm saying is that Samsung can suck my fucking balls.