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Apple exec leads a reporter through a months-long email exchange to get into the iPhone 7 launch with numerous unanswered emails and weaselings-out. There is apparently a for-real blacklist. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/07/reg_effort_to_attend_iphone_7_launch/ quote:It's been a number of years since an Apple PR staffer secretly admitted to one of our reporters that The Register was on a blacklist.
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Skeesix posted:Apple exec leads a reporter through a months-long email exchange to get into the iPhone 7 launch with numerous unanswered emails and weaselings-out. There is apparently a for-real blacklist. this is one of the whiniest and most self-entitled things I've ever read
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I'd consider it a blessing to have an out for having to breathlessly report on whatever hot garbage apple releases
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zen death robot posted:I ordered 2 128gb hugephones, black for me and rose gold for the wife, tmobile charged me $0 for the privilege and credited me $400 on our current phones thanks tmo you bought a 7? smh
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OH MY GOD WHY IS APPLE MAKING US BUY A NEW CHARGER THAT IS INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO THE OLD CHARGER I ALREADY HAVE THE OLD CHARGER THIS IS INSANE OH MY GOD I CAN'T USE MY OLD HEADPHONES WITH MY NEW IPHONE I MEAN I ALREADY HAVE AN IPHONE THAT I CAN USE MY OLD HEADPHONES WITH BUT SINCE I JUST ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO BUY THE NEW ONE APPLE IS MAKING ME BUY IT THIS IS INSANE For gently caress's sake. Hold on to your God-damned 6 if you're so worried about this completely unimportant, innocuous poo poo that doesn't matter one loving whit to anyone, anywhere, for any reason. Oh no I have to spend $17 on some bluetooth headphones and I can't charge while listening, art is dead. Get a hobby or something.
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2-3 weeks shipping but got the 128GB model... i thought the 7+ would have 64... but apparently not? oh well would it have been quicker to pick up in store? i should have checked OH CANADA ![]() $1300 with tax haha
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fits my needs posted:OH MY GOD WHY IS APPLE MAKING US BUY A NEW CHARGER THAT IS INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO THE OLD CHARGER I ALREADY HAVE THE OLD CHARGER THIS IS INSANE ![]()
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lol
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without the charging cable I feel like it's incomplete tho
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actually this is extremely woke because it encourages people to think about how much trivial nonsense they consume
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lmbo stebe would not have allowed this
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can you also plug in a charging cable at the same time, or does that break things?
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Skeesix posted:Apple exec leads a reporter through a months-long email exchange to get into the iPhone 7 launch with numerous unanswered emails and weaselings-out. There is apparently a for-real blacklist. old news idiot!! gently caress you!!!! GameCube posted:lmao http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/07/reg_effort_to_attend_iphone_7_launch/?mt=1473281987450
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prefect posted:can you also plug in a charging cable at the same time, or does that break things? let's plug two charging cables into this dongle gee i sure am glad we have the free market to crank out more plastic poo poo in just the right shape to fix bizarre design decisions
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fits my needs posted:OH MY GOD WHY IS APPLE MAKING US BUY A NEW CHARGER THAT IS INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO THE OLD CHARGER I ALREADY HAVE THE OLD CHARGER THIS IS INSANE please source your quotes. i want to witness this person's meltdown myself
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PleasureKevin posted:my iPhone 7 better work in Japan. it will, but the Apple Pay for transit/convenience store payments will not. also, do not come to Japan.
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GameCube posted:please source your quotes. i want to witness this person's meltdown myself I've been thinking about this and Apple really is uniquely suited to cut out poo poo whose time has passed but which everybody still loves and make otherwise unpopular decisions, because everyone fuckin' loves them and will defend whatever and get in fist-fights with each other because they're so eager to buy everything. And then they get credit for being visionaries. When other companies make sacrifices in the name of progress everyone always stays in the laughing-at-them-forever phase until they apologize and roll it back. This also grants them freedom to make this progress in really lovely ways w/r/t their proprietary technology (luckily they were never able to force FireWire on everybody so maybe the Lightning-headphones thing will blow over)
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apple is poo poo
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you stole my joke https://twitter.com/pleasure__kevin/status/773750731064999937
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fits my needs posted:I've been thinking about this and Apple really is uniquely suited to cut out poo poo whose time has passed but which everybody still loves and make otherwise unpopular decisions, because everyone fuckin' loves them and will defend whatever and get in fist-fights with each other because they're so eager to buy everything. And then they get credit for being visionaries. When other companies make sacrifices in the name of progress everyone always stays in the laughing-at-them-forever phase until they apologize and roll it back. how do you know when a thing's time has passed?
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when you can't sell any more of them because everyone already has one
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just once it would be nice if people didn't have a stroke when apple switches to a new technology. i mean there is a lot historically to suggest they know what they're doing and have good intentions. but perhaps all the controversy is a benefit since more people hear about it, and those who understand the change may end up buying it.
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historically apple is misguided and makes stupid decisions without steve jobs, same as today
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prefect posted:can you also plug in a charging cable at the same time, or does that break things? audio and data/power pins are different so you can do both at once
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even bigger smh
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PleasureKevin posted:just once it would be nice if people didn't have a stroke when apple switches to a new technology. i mean there is a lot historically to suggest they know what they're doing and have good intentions. none of the technology they're switching to is new.
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none of those pictures have bowie
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"everything that connects to your phone uses the same connector " isn't a terrible ideal to strive for, on a planet where a perfectly functional connector isn't already ubiquitous
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fits my needs posted:I've been thinking about this and Apple really is uniquely suited to cut out poo poo whose time has passed but which everybody still loves and make otherwise unpopular decisions, because everyone fuckin' loves them and will defend whatever and get in fist-fights with each other because they're so eager to buy everything. And then they get credit for being visionaries. When other companies make sacrifices in the name of progress everyone always stays in the laughing-at-them-forever phase until they apologize and roll it back. I made this post and I stand by it At this point I think the only really bad thing about the change is that they're using their own proprietary port, because it's basically guaranteeing that the Digital Headphones of the Future will be device-specific instead of any headphone plugging into any device like this wonderful golden age of headphones we live in which is now coming to a close Unless Apple's fans finally, finally turn on them which is the only way we get to keep our old headphones but not likely
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I hope that the UN passes a resolution that the lightning connector is now a public good and any company can include it in any product for free
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Sagebrush posted:I hope that the UN passes a resolution that the lightning connector is now a public good and any company can include it in any product for free same but the entire iphone
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loquacius posted:I made this post and I stand by it REMEMBER ARE OLD HEADPHONES
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loquacius posted:At this point I think the only really bad thing about the change is that they're using their own proprietary port, because it's basically guaranteeing that the Digital Headphones of the Future will be device-specific instead of any headphone plugging into any device like this wonderful golden age of headphones we live in which is now coming to a close bluetooth is not their own proprietary port
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PleasureKevin posted:bluetooth is not their own proprietary port im glad that your cognitive abilities have increased this much, kevin
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jfc i skipped 20 pages and the topic is the same if the headphone jack being gone is so criminal to you i think there are 5(?) other phones you can choose from that still have the jack
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gargle chome posted:jfc i skipped 20 pages and the topic is the same lol android is rushing to drop theirs too
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i had an htc magic, literally the second android phone ever, and it didn't come with a headphone jack. just a usb dongle. "courageous." once again apple copies what android did 8 years ago
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:lol android is rushing to drop theirs too Yeah and it's still dumb as hell. Again, if they'd give you two ports it would be one thing, but a single port is dumb as all hell
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who gives a poo poo nerd (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:lol android is rushing to drop theirs too yep
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