Apple absolutely does NOT slow old phones when they send out new updates. Anymore.
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I am almost certain, Google is doing the same with the pixels. My Pixel 6 suddenly lags or doesn't react on inputs.
GrapheneOS.
Or maybe try looking at battery usage. Android is a piece of shit, including the apps included in it. Maybe an update changed the way one of them worked.
I think I'll need stock Android due to those two factor authentication apps for banking, which are not allowing to be ran on custom or rooted phones.
I really loved Cyanogen tho ...
A lof of banking apps do work on grapheneOS: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
My battery life has been soo much better since Google Play can't do whatever it fucking wants anymore.
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Parts missing? I don't believe this at all. A phone is basically a single board, screen, battery, lenses, audio bits. Everything is so jammed in that there's no room to think parts are missing. No tech would make this mistake and Apple doesn't benefit from generating a hostile customer experience. This is made up.
Of course the tech didn't believe that. However, Apple does benefit from tech illiterate customers buying a new iPhone instead.
I used to work for Apple. I don't believe the missing parts story because as you said, how would that even happen. But, if any parts have been replaced, especially the home buttons / finger print reader, they will refuse to fix, and I never understand why. So that may be what happened.
Also Jobs was 100% behind this stuff. It's so annoying when people treat him like he was some tech god. He was a twat.
This is made up.
It's a green text lol.
Sorry details may be fake, but I do believe an apple employee would pull some shot because policy dictates they sell new equipment over fixing old equipment.
Every apple fanboy I talk to gushes about how amazing the genius bar is, helping them when they get their iPhone stuck in their ass.
But every casual user who has different problems beyond getting an iPhone stuck in their ass seems to get the same response: "Buy the next version".
I dunno though I'm forced to use the apple products from work.
I was a tech in a store and covered a fee on a replacement device because it was the second time the guy had to come to us. I gave a young woman (student) a free laptop because she'd had a super long repair history during my last week in that role. Apple conditions their retail employees to treat customers well and it's something I missed getting to do for people forever after.
When I moved to the mothership, the only mantra was always about doing right by our customers. When I was interviewing for that gig, I asked one of the interviewers what he considered challenging about the job and he said that (coming from Microsoft to Apple) the company had an "insane" focus on its customers. It really is a top-down attitude. The company may be high sniffing their own farts, but they believe they're uniquely focused on doing the right thing.
Gotta tell you, i have had very very different experiences
A lot of it is single board, but there are smaller PCB layered in there connected by ribbon cables or press-in connections. I replaced the battery in my iphone and it’s a tedious but doable DIY project. Anyway, the way it’s assembled doesn’t lend itself to missing parts. Parts of or the whole phone won’t work. No way would phone arrive “missing” parts - unless there was external damage to any cameras or switches.
what did Steve Jobs even do except for management and marketing, and why does he then get the praise for the hardware/software???
ripped off Steve Wozniak
Honestly, genius-level move. Always a good decision.
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Real story: A friend of mine used his iPhone on his motorcycle and it messed up the OIS. He went to Apple, said they wouldn't fix it. He went to a third party and they told him they basically have to beg Apple to fix it and get parts so he'd have to leave his phone for a week to MAYBE get it fixed by the grace of the big fruit. He bought a new iPhone. I still don't understand why.
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Apple a bad company? Really? I neeeeever eeeeever heard anything bad about aaaaaple.
No shit Sherlock, it'd obvious AF. It's one of the wealthiest companies in the world. They didn't get all that money with honesty. Child labor, slave labor, ripping off consumers, creating a whole new level of corporate greed. Apple is as evil as you can get. Just like Nvidia, Shell, Google, Nestlé, etc.
Fake and gay. They will never say your device has parts missing since they know most customers aren't that stupid. They most of the time say you have water damage or it's too old for repair.
The Apple Genius Bar sucks ass. But let's not pretend like any of the other big tech companies do any better. At least Apple has a physical store where they can fuck you over in person. Try getting Samsung shit repaired. In most countries they let a 3rd party company do the handling and repairs and you can't visit that company. You have to send it in and if they deem your device unrepairable or "not" broken they send it back and you have to pay for shipping both ways even if the device falls under warranty and sometimes they send it back more broken then when it left your hands. While communication happens solely trough email.
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