I HATE APPLE

i was so "nice guy", seriously. i didn't have any attitude because in my head it was a £30 repair.

could be he was just incompetent and mistook it for something that is hard to repair. my charger port died on my much-loved ipod touch some years ago and i called around to lots of shops, all of which insisted that it was typically too hard to fix.

unlikely! but i admire your generosity.

i mean it was a total 5c hard sell.

I had a similar experience with a 4S faulty dock connector at a Genius Bar, but the guy was much more honest. He said Apple don't replace dock connectors because it's too fiddly a procdure but he was honest enough to say that third-party repair places would, but that he wouldn't advise it as it might go wrong. I took my chances and it was fine. He did vaguely mention the idea of getting a new phone, but in a half-hearted way very far from a hard sell.

Oh, and he said that he'd liked to have swapped the whole unit out for free as a goodwill gesture, but that my screen had been replaced by a third-party, so company policy meant that he couldn't. I had no idea that I had replaced screen (I bought the 4S second-hand) – I think people sometimes get stung by this when insurers give you reconditioned phones as replacements.

The reason they're usually so "nice" in the UK is they have to be: EU law pretty much gives you a six-year warranty on anything you buy (5 in Scotland). They honour this, but don't advertise it for obvious reasons. If they give you any shit about it, this link usually shuts them up http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

(Won't work on modified devices, unfortunately)

(And there is a bit of a fight over latent issues: they used to claim that broken home buttons were normal wear and tear, but they now are more likely just to do a swap for one of those)

Good god, that "Chicken Fat" song is a real catchy earworm; I pity the kids that had to listen that every day!

wtf - the developer of an app sends out an update to my app that my phone should not have gotten and they tell me to get a refund from apple - apple says FU - I hate apple!

https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-ios/discuss/283596#comment-313411

current best itunes alternatives for windows?

sticking your head in a bucket of lye, probably

lol

Mediamonkey is pretty robust. Seems to best used if you don't even have iTunes installed, though.

i was a fan of that back in my ye olde Windows days

I just had a free rental from itunes store movies - how stupid - 24 hours to watch a movie ? why not just get it form netflix and have as long as I need?

mediamonkey is dece xp

foobar if u ever thought bitcoin made sense

I've been using BeeMusic for the last couple of months and like it a lot. Basically the same as MediaMonkey but more lightweight and less buggy.

Something tells me public confidence in Apple is gonna take a huge hit by tomorrow morning...

why?

Nhex is Edward Snowden

lotsa apple news the last couple days

Referring to the iCloud celebrity nudes leak that happened today. Kinda waiting for a more legitimate site to report on it, don't want to link to the sources of the "fappening"...

are you going to make me search the internet for "icloud celebrity nudes"

you can't say that and not provide a link

twitter.com

just seems like garbage reporting by some garbage websites based on the claims of somebody on 4chan, including multiple spox comments from the people named that the photos are faked

The pictures allegedly were retrieved due to an Apple iCloud leak that allowed celebrities’ phones to be hacked, and were posted on 4chan in an attempt to earn bitcoins.

http://i.imgur.com/Cyq4r5z.png

yes that is a list of names

Saving you a click to ch@n.

guys, i even gave you the term to google in quotes

And I gave you a .jpg from imgur.com. Hand over the bitcoins.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bwa5UWMCQAACZgP.jpg

welp there's a google search i feel pretty horrible about wending my way through

easily found on reddit now. well.

iMovie is so broken haha

Would love to say I resisted the urge to click a few when I first saw them posted, but I did not. Feel bad about it now though, sorry JLaw and Kate Upton.

ill look at some celebrity boobs if theyre out there, curious abt celebrities, boobs

these women did not consent to have the general public see them naked. this whole thing is unbelievably gross and it's been really demoralizing to see men who are ostensibly feminist allies treat this so lightly.

I agree that it's a gross invasion of privacy, but at the same time this shit happens all the time and the only reason there seems to be such a swell of outrage is just that it was a bunch of celebrities at once. I mean I don't think I've ever seen a single thinkpiece devoted to leaked celebrity nudes before and it happens all the fucking time, so I'm a little taken aback.

Also celebrities who complain about paparazzi harassing them usually get laughed down, and that's been going on for decades.

these women did not consent to have the general public see them naked. this whole thing is unbelievably gross and it's been really demoralizing to see men who are ostensibly feminist allies treat this so lightly.

― compassionate sports, electronic father (reddening), Monday, September 1, 2014 2:17 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really unbelievably gross

like you cant believe it

the only thing that shocks me about this little episode is that whoever possessed these photos didn't make bank out of it

although maybe all of this is part of a longer game being played

saw some thing abt people getting bitcoin donations for posting the noods to 4chan, all the best internet stuff in one place

this is unfortunate for the people involved obviously but I'm surprised that the fbi is 'investigating'. will they do that if this happens to a non famous person? I suppose you could say this negatively impacts these people's careers but...does it, these days? I'm not so sure.

also surprised this isn't just a huge promotion for Sex Tape