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Apple is a total shit GC shell company now

Take a look at the iPhone. When it came out it was amazing, ...
boyish mad cow disease area
  11/20/17
Except the "$40 dongle" costs $3.25, and they give...
submissive provocative hissy fit shrine
  11/25/17
Who cares
Shivering Azn Hell
  11/20/17
The unexamined life is not worth living, some guy once said....
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/20/17
That guy smells his own farts
Shivering Azn Hell
  11/20/17
*obsesses over iphones*
scarlet embarrassed to the bone partner queen of the night
  11/24/17
he meant examining your own life not others, you TTT
trip topaz den
  11/25/17
iPhone is SPS now. MacBook is even worse. They were both 180...
histrionic national
  11/20/17
someone recently poasted their not-so-secret Augmented Reali...
Puce naked hall
  11/20/17
great so GC can beam ads right into your brain. What an inn...
Shivering Azn Hell
  11/20/17
that is the future, yes if you don't like it, you might as ...
Puce naked hall
  11/20/17
they're doing technically incredibly things with the perform...
Pea-brained Box Office Sex Offender
  11/20/17
remember when faceID failed at their live demo of the most e...
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/20/17
It didn't fail. It require a passcode because other people h...
submissive provocative hissy fit shrine
  11/25/17
You are one weird Apple fanboy faggot. How many iPlugs can y...
slimy office tattoo
  11/25/17
Agreed. Been off the Mac/iphone since 2012
heady ticket booth
  11/20/17
i will switch when my computer dies. its almost 6 years old ...
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/20/17
extremely asian post. my iphone x is a work of art and truly...
marvelous lime house
  11/20/17
you know they have android phones that are superior that cos...
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/20/17
i doubt they're superior. i used to have an android (galaxy ...
marvelous lime house
  11/20/17
it probably was shit, because then there really wasnt anythi...
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/20/17
lol bullshit, you fucking nerds said the same thing back the...
marvelous lime house
  11/20/17
ive never said this and ive always owned and still own an ip...
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/20/17
That phone is from 6 years ago. One of the points in the op ...
heady ticket booth
  11/20/17
yeah, and that was one of the points you android idiots were...
marvelous lime house
  11/20/17
Dunno I don't really argue about shitty consumer technology ...
heady ticket booth
  11/20/17
perfect. everyone wins! right?
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/20/17
the language translation stuff seems 180. where is apple?
charismatic sick ape
  11/25/17
Ignore Stu Lantz. He is one of the biggest idiots on xo.
slimy office tattoo
  11/25/17
Asus makes better laptops. Any old Android phone for $50...
White Maniacal Theatre Puppy
  11/20/17
This is all surprisingly credited, but an iphone 7 (for $550...
Alcoholic Stage Reading Party
  11/21/17
ti, oc, tcr
Self-absorbed mentally impaired corner becky
  11/21/17
iPhone X looks amazing. the macbook is the best consumer ...
sinister principal's office codepig
  11/20/17
your ass
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/20/17
You're wrong on every point.
White Maniacal Theatre Puppy
  11/20/17
*it is 2009*
cerebral yellow gaming laptop
  11/24/17
Everything
out-of-control sneaky criminal
  11/24/17
The Overpriced Cylinder Mac pro is probably one of the worst...
Deep abode pozpig
  11/24/17
(live tuna wink$)
Effete brindle lodge
  11/24/17
*wildly bounces on 24 inch dildo*
Umber location
  11/24/17
We would also have accepted “hi Tim”
poppy stag film ratface
  11/24/17
I think Apple really died with Jobs in many ways - and that ...
Dark territorial public bath elastic band
  11/20/17
...
out-of-control sneaky criminal
  11/24/17
...
Carmine titillating base laser beams
  11/24/17
except android phones are still ttt shit. in 2017.
Nudist buff garrison
  11/20/17
Cr
Infuriating Police Squad Bbw
  11/21/17
iPhone is shit. Android is shit. Surface has replaced my M...
hateful spot preventive strike
  11/20/17
...
pearly contagious messiness mood
  11/21/17
(Bill Gates)
Infuriating Police Squad Bbw
  11/24/17
nah he's using android trash now out of desperation
hateful spot preventive strike
  11/24/17
I love my iPad and have had an iPhone forever. But I feel li...
iridescent gas station degenerate
  11/24/17
Ljl no
Infuriating Police Squad Bbw
  11/24/17
Skip to 2:10 and ignore the douche host. Anyone hear of thi...
exhilarant yapping hominid
  11/24/17
Apple is a supply chain management company now. Has more in ...
turquoise lay travel guidebook
  11/25/17
Harsh but fair
poppy stag film ratface
  11/25/17
Apple’s iPhone X assembled by illegal student labour h...
Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate
  11/25/17


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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:55 PM
Author: boyish mad cow disease area

Take a look at the iPhone. When it came out it was amazing, there was nothing like it. Now a bunch of other companies have caught up to the iPhone but Apple still benefits from network effects and first mover advantage. With the iPhone 7, Apple decided to remove it’s headphone jack and sell $200 bluetooth headphones, and $40 “dongle” adaptors for anyone who wants to use their headphones with their smartphone. Egregious attempt to suck all the value from its loyal consumer base, while we're buying a product specifically designed to game our dopamine hungry ape brains. The newest iPhone now costs $1k - it costs Apple $350 to make and the android competition makes a better, more advanced phone, for less than half the price - yet people run out and buy the newest phone that they can’t afford on APR that will inevitably make them miserable. Why?

So we've arrived at the point where everyone who has any IQ whatsoever knows iPhones and iMacs are a ripoff yet we feel to need to buy them because of social pressure and social signaling. Chances are, all or most of our friends and family have an iPhone and will bitch about lack of iMessages.

Before someone says some dumb shit like, "I'm not buying an Asian-made phone," consider this: Apple holds around $181 billion dollars offshore because it doesn’t want to pay US tax. iPhones are assembled in shitty death camps. What's American about that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34735943)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 8:36 AM
Author: submissive provocative hissy fit shrine

Except the "$40 dongle" costs $3.25, and they give you one with the phone. https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Headphone-Samcable-Lightning-Accessories/dp/B076VMDDHJ/ and no one is required to use air pods if they don't want to.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34767220)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:57 PM
Author: Shivering Azn Hell

Who cares

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34735955)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:57 PM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

The unexamined life is not worth living, some guy once said.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34735958)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:00 PM
Author: Shivering Azn Hell

That guy smells his own farts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34735988)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 6:32 PM
Author: scarlet embarrassed to the bone partner queen of the night

*obsesses over iphones*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34764046)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 12:24 AM
Author: trip topaz den

he meant examining your own life not others, you TTT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34766140)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 9:58 PM
Author: histrionic national

iPhone is SPS now. MacBook is even worse. They were both 180 just a couple years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34735961)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:01 PM
Author: Puce naked hall

someone recently poasted their not-so-secret Augmented Reality product being developed for 2019. That should be interesting and at least an attempt at innovation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34735999)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:01 PM
Author: Shivering Azn Hell

great so GC can beam ads right into your brain. What an innovation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736009)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:04 PM
Author: Puce naked hall

that is the future, yes

if you don't like it, you might as well completely unplug now and hie to a cabin in Wyoming

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736031)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:29 PM
Author: Pea-brained Box Office Sex Offender

they're doing technically incredibly things with the performance gains they're squeezing out of the a series chips every year

i am sort of down on the upper apple management, they seem largely checked out, but they still have teams doing great work and pushing teh state of technology forward.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736242)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:31 PM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

remember when faceID failed at their live demo of the most expensive phone ever sold?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736252)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 8:40 AM
Author: submissive provocative hissy fit shrine

It didn't fail. It require a passcode because other people had tried to unlock it with their faces and failed.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/apple-says-face-id-didnt-actually-fail-during-its-iphone-x-event/

I have a X now and face Id works flawlessly. Much bettter than the thumb print thing which wouldn't work for me within fifteen mintutes of taking a shower.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34767222)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 8:44 AM
Author: slimy office tattoo

You are one weird Apple fanboy faggot. How many iPlugs can you fit in your ass at once?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34767224)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:32 PM
Author: heady ticket booth

Agreed. Been off the Mac/iphone since 2012

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736259)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:33 PM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

i will switch when my computer dies. its almost 6 years old now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736272)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:33 PM
Author: marvelous lime house

extremely asian post. my iphone x is a work of art and truly 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736265)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:34 PM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

you know they have android phones that are superior that cost half the price, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736275)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:35 PM
Author: marvelous lime house

i doubt they're superior. i used to have an android (galaxy s2), it was utter shit. and sorry i don't wanna spend several hundred and have my phone be outdated in 2 weeks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736278)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:35 PM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

it probably was shit, because then there really wasnt anything like the iPhone. times have changed, however.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736281)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:36 PM
Author: marvelous lime house

lol bullshit, you fucking nerds said the same thing back then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736284)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:37 PM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

ive never said this and ive always owned and still own an iphone. will switch to android next year probably

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736291)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:36 PM
Author: heady ticket booth

That phone is from 6 years ago. One of the points in the op post is that Android has caught up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736286)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:37 PM
Author: marvelous lime house

yeah, and that was one of the points you android idiots were making back then too. oh it's not 2007 anymore, androids have caught up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736299)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:38 PM
Author: heady ticket booth

Dunno I don't really argue about shitty consumer technology much lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736302)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:40 PM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

perfect. everyone wins! right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736314)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 1:37 AM
Author: charismatic sick ape

the language translation stuff seems 180. where is apple?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34766536)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 8:47 AM
Author: slimy office tattoo

Ignore Stu Lantz. He is one of the biggest idiots on xo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34767233)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:41 PM
Author: White Maniacal Theatre Puppy

Asus makes better laptops.

Any old Android phone for $500 does everything a $1000 iPhone does with no lag.

A Dell for half the price beats any Apple PC or just build your own gaming rig like an actual man.

And my Mazda doesn't have Apple CarPlay.

I do own an iPad because Android tablets all universally suck and the Surface costs too much and is too heavy.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736323)



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Date: November 21st, 2017 2:45 AM
Author: Alcoholic Stage Reading Party

This is all surprisingly credited, but an iphone 7 (for $550 and there are sales this week getting them down to $250-300) is a lot of phone for not that much money. The credited smart phone strategy is to buy the last gen one and use it for 4+ years. These people who insist on switching phones every year are total suckers. It's bizarre to me that the whole tablet v laptop trend swung so wildly. Three years ago everyone said that laptops were dinosaurs en route to extinction, and now the biggest PC vendors don't even bother to try to make a decent tablet. And somehow that also led to the current entry level ipad being $250, which is such an outlier of a price point within the rest of Apple's product lines.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34737369)



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Date: November 21st, 2017 2:49 AM
Author: Self-absorbed mentally impaired corner becky

ti, oc, tcr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34737374)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:49 PM
Author: sinister principal's office codepig

iPhone X looks amazing.

the macbook is the best consumer laptop out there.

the mackbook pro is the best professional laptop.

iMac is the best consumer desktop available.

Mac Pro is the best professional desktop you can get.

12.9” iPad Pro is the best tablet in existence, period.

the new Apple Watch series 3 is the best smart watch available now.

what am I missing?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736371)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:50 PM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

your ass

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736377)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:50 PM
Author: White Maniacal Theatre Puppy

You're wrong on every point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736378)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 3:31 AM
Author: cerebral yellow gaming laptop

*it is 2009*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34760622)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 3:38 AM
Author: out-of-control sneaky criminal

Everything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34760646)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 3:46 AM
Author: Deep abode pozpig

The Overpriced Cylinder Mac pro is probably one of the worst products in apple history.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34760678)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 10:00 PM
Author: Effete brindle lodge

(live tuna wink$)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34765113)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 10:41 PM
Author: Umber location

*wildly bounces on 24 inch dildo*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34765453)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 10:54 PM
Author: poppy stag film ratface

We would also have accepted “hi Tim”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34765539)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:51 PM
Author: Dark territorial public bath elastic band

I think Apple really died with Jobs in many ways - and that the personality cult around him carried the company and also his last innovations like the iPad and iWatch really got big after he died. Even though the iWatch isn't really huge at all - but once you tap out on the Phone, Watch and Tablet concept and related ecosystem it makes one wonder what else is there to do and more importantly who can do it?

About a month ago I got my old analog watch repaired after using my iWatch for almost a year or so. In the beginning the iWatch was great, but as time went on it ended up making my life more cumbersome and adding way more steps to my day.

Once I got my old watch back I put it on and my life has gotten much better. Once the novelty wears off, the constant random reminders and updates and calls and stuff just has no real value at all (at least for me), its a marginal improvement.

I never used a Mac for a desktop or laptop computer, but I have an iPhone and iPad.

I think that Apple is good at conning people into an ecosystem but the marginal utility of having more of their products eventually breaks down.

They're gonna still make a fuckload of money for a long long time, but I think that they will have bigger issues when it comes to competition and consumer fatigue as well as no real leadership. I am not the biggest fan of Cook.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736388)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 3:47 AM
Author: out-of-control sneaky criminal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34760682)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 6:31 PM
Author: Carmine titillating base laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34764036)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 10:54 PM
Author: Nudist buff garrison

except android phones are still ttt shit. in 2017.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736400)



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Date: November 21st, 2017 3:39 AM
Author: Infuriating Police Squad Bbw

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34737462)



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Date: November 20th, 2017 11:01 PM
Author: hateful spot preventive strike

iPhone is shit.

Android is shit.

Surface has replaced my Mac.

I want a decent Surface Phone.

Fuck big tech.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34736437)



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Date: November 21st, 2017 2:13 AM
Author: pearly contagious messiness mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34737314)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 6:27 PM
Author: Infuriating Police Squad Bbw

(Bill Gates)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34764008)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 10:27 PM
Author: hateful spot preventive strike

nah he's using android trash now out of desperation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34765360)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 10:23 AM
Author: iridescent gas station degenerate

I love my iPad and have had an iPhone forever. But I feel like the iPhone quality has really cratered. I want to try a new phone but don't even know where to begin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34761468)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 6:27 PM
Author: Infuriating Police Squad Bbw

Ljl no

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34764013)



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Date: November 24th, 2017 10:52 PM
Author: exhilarant yapping hominid

Skip to 2:10 and ignore the douche host. Anyone hear of this phone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjSeHQpEoTA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34765522)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 12:26 AM
Author: turquoise lay travel guidebook

Apple is a supply chain management company now. Has more in common with Wal-Mart than Google.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34766153)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 12:40 AM
Author: poppy stag film ratface

Harsh but fair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34766237)



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Date: November 25th, 2017 11:53 AM
Author: Talking Abnormal Kitty Cat Senate

Apple’s iPhone X assembled by illegal student labour

https://www.ft.com/content/7cb56786-cda1-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc

Apple’s main supplier in Asia has been employing students illegally working overtime to assemble the iPhone X, as it struggles to catch up with demand after production delays. 

Six high school students told the Financial Times they routinely work 11-hour days assembling the iPhone X at a factory in Zhengzhou, China, which constitutes illegal overtime for student interns under Chinese law.

The six said they were among a group of 3,000 students from Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School sent in September to work at the local facility run by Taiwan-based Apple supplier Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn.

Why China is Apple’s biggest hope and greatest headache

The students, aged 17 to 19, said they were told that a three-month stint at the factory was required “work experience” that they had to complete in order to graduate. 

“We are being forced by our school to work here,” said Ms Yang, an 18-year-old student training to be a train attendant who declined to use her first name for fear of punishment. “The work has nothing to do with our studies.” She said she assembled up to 1,200 iPhone X cameras a day.

The school declined to comment.

When contacted about the students’ complaints, Apple and Foxconn acknowledged they had discovered cases of student interns working overtime and said they were taking remedial action. But both companies said the students were working voluntarily.

Apple said an audit has turned up “instances of student interns working overtime at a supplier facility in China”, adding “we’ve confirmed the students worked voluntarily, were compensated and provided benefits, but they should not have been allowed to work overtime”. 

Foxconn said that “all work was voluntary and compensated appropriately, [but] the interns did work overtime in violation of our policy” prohibiting student interns working more than 40 hours a week. 

The launch of the anniversary iPhone X was marred by production issues and was delayed to November from Apple’s typical September release date. The weeks of idle capacity caused Foxconn’s quarterly profit to drop 39 per cent. 

According to a long-time Foxconn employee, the Zhengzhou factory hires students every year during the busy season between August and December. Such hiring can swell numbers at the plant from a base of 100,000 to more than 300,000 workers producing up to 20,000 iPhones a day, the employee said.

But this year, the need for seasonal workers was greater, the employee added.

“The purchasing practices of Apple and others are designed to cut costs, and do things ‘just in time’,” said Jenny Chan, assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. “This leads to the use of student labourers who can be flexibly hired.”

Foxconn said its internship programme was “carried out in co-operation with local governments and a number of vocational schools in China”. 

The education ministry of Henan, where Zhengzhou is the capital, issued notices to all vocational schools in the central Chinese province to send their “work experience students” to Foxconn, according to a person who saw the notice. 

Students also came from the nearby cities of Kaifeng, Nanyang, and Xinxiang, according to a Foxconn employee working on the iPhone X. 

The education ministry could not be reached for comment.

Providing flexible student labour is one of the preferential policies that the Henan government offers Foxconn in order to keep it there. 

“Henan province does everything in its power to make sure Foxconn thrives here. It’s not just about tax revenues — it’s about industrial upgrading, building an export industry, having a foreign partnership [with Apple],” said a local official.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3804201&forum_id=2#34768072)