Steve Jobs was evil af
Why, exactly? Genuinely asking. I mean, donāt get me wrong, Iām no Apple fan, and he was absolutely an insufferable douchebag to nearly everyone he knew; and was a verifiable self-righteous fuckwit who Darwinād himself out of existence by choosing woo-woo bullshit over medicine for a very treatable cancer.
Evil, though, I think might be a stretch ā Elon, Thiel, Vance, Trump, Murdoch, the Sackler family, the Koch brothers, etc. all excellent contenders for being truly evil ā but afaik Jobs was just a dickhead with an ego the size of a blimp, and I think we ought not dilute that term with just your run-of-the-mill dickheads. Unless you know something I donāt about him.
To start with, Jobs lied and cheated Wozniak out of money. And this was Jobs friend, not some random.
If he is willing to do this to his friends, you know he did it to others.
This told me nothing I didnāt already know. Like I said, he was a dickhead, to almost every single person in his personal and professional life. But evil requires a level of maliciousness that transcends the people you are in physical contact with, imo ā you have to be actively striving to make life worse for at least a few hundred people or more.
A dickhead and a shitty father, sure, Iām not defending his actions in the slightest. But āevilā would require him to have done something much worse than just treat his kid and the people in his immediate orbit like shit. Just my opinion.
Their ārepairā program is nothing but a scam to nudge you into buying a new Apple product to replace the broken one with overinflated repair prices and bullshit excuses like that.
Also it works exactly as Steve Jobs intended.
Heās one of the most innovative leaders of our time. One of the best lessons ive ever learned from him running my crypto empire was to give people extreme deadlines that normally would be difficult to meet. Iāve fired a lot of underperforming employees with this trick to make room for the best men who will work hard with little sleep to get rich off of crypto. Btw dm me if youāre interested in joining. We pay $8.25/hr but imagine the profit you can turn over once the crypto exchange goes up
thereās no fucking way, right? the 8 bucks an hour made me incredulous, as did the ābest menā wordingā¦ honestly, lately though, Iāve interacted with utter fucking morons here on Lemmy, which almost never happened in the first year or so. did some kind of very user friendly app come along with some awareness outreach?
āSome of the parts were missingā
You motherfuckers put the damn thing together in the first place!
This is almost exactly what happened to me except they told me my phone had mold growing inside it from the shattered screen I wanted replaced.
The āmoldā was pocket lint from waiting a month to get it fixed.
Bitch actually said right to my face that my phone no longer works so letās get you a new one. I powered on the phone right there and he started backpedaling and grifting āoh but it wonāt be long thoā. So I went home and still use it with the shattered screen because fuck them.
FYI, you can replace the screen yourself. Iāve replaced the screen and battery on an older iPhone. Bought the parts off Amazon, watched a YouTube video and thatās it. Super tiny screws so it may help if you have a magnifying glass (or one of those magnifying + light units for painting miniatures).
Never thought of doing that myself tbh but Iāll check it out, thanks for the idea. Id be happy if I could get a couple more years out of it because it sure beats these iPhone prices now
The other super useful tool to have is a heat gun. Go grab one from Harbor Freight for like $20 while they are on sale. This allows you to melt the adhesive they use to hold the screen in place
and Iām guessing you will still continue to use apple products and buy another iphoneā¦ apple users are such sheep
Iād love nothing more than to move back to android, but Iām a cheap bastard.
Iām going to drive this til the wheels fall off
Yea Google are much better with all their pro consumer practices like hosting thousands of malware apps. Also their manufacturing partners where both Google and the manufacturer get to spy on you and sell your data.
At least where I live, if the bootleg repair place isnāt slightly moldy, itās a scam. Rundown, old white tiles on the wall, chipped mirror somewhere, a frail curtain to separate the back area from the front counter, and, in summer, a mandatory swiveling standing fan. Thatās where your phone will get a second lease on its live!
Never did a lot of specifically phone repair, but all the computer and misc electronics repair Iāve worked at follow a similar pattern to yours. To add to it - there should be cobbled together racks, behind the flimsy curtain, filled with devices of many vintages in many states of (dis)repair.
The cleaner the place and the steeper the price, a lotta times the better the proprietor is at business than at electronics, lol