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This is why Apple is a terrible company
2007-10-28, 7:25 PM #1
They send cease and desist letters to third graders. :downswords:
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2007-10-28, 7:28 PM #2
lulz
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2007-10-28, 7:30 PM #3
Uh yea because apple reads every letter they send to them in depth. They probably saw that it was "unsolicited ideas" and just put it in a separate pile.

Damn you apple for having a poor automated response system that doesnt look out for the innocent people! Damn you and your hurtful letters!
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2007-10-28, 7:38 PM #4
What makes me wonder is that it took 3 months for them to send a form letter reply.
2007-10-28, 7:38 PM #5
Believe it or not Microsoft is WAAAYYYY more people friendly.
2007-10-28, 7:40 PM #6
Originally posted by mb:
Damn you apple for having a poor automated response system that doesnt look out for the innocent people! Damn you and your hurtful letters!

Actually I was alluding to how they sue their customers in order to keep quiet the problems with their products. See MacBook second degree lap burns.

Edit: What I mean to say is that they are complete asscans.
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2007-10-28, 7:52 PM #7
Quote:
“She just came home and said ‘mom I have some ideas about the iPod Nano,’ and said ‘I'm going to write Steven Jobs a letter’,” said Shea’s mother. “We were just very impressed and very proud of her.”

In her letter, Shea outlined her ideas for improving iPods like adding song lyrics.


That is a good idea! I'd never be able to come up with a good idea like that.
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2007-10-28, 7:52 PM #8
While I appear to be a total Apple fanboy by what I own, Microsoft has been getting a lot better reputation over recent years (e.g. making original Zunes run on the same firmware as Zune 2.0). The most recent thing Apple did that I thought was cool was use a college student's fan-made iPod touch commercial to actually advertise the product: http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/ads/
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2007-10-28, 7:57 PM #9
Originally posted by Freelancer:
That is a good idea! I'd never be able to come up with a good idea like that.

She's in the third grade, f***nut.
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2007-10-28, 7:58 PM #10
so?
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2007-10-28, 7:58 PM #11
:downs:
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2007-10-28, 7:59 PM #12
Kids can't have good ideas?
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2007-10-28, 8:00 PM #13
:psyduck:
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2007-10-28, 8:04 PM #14
:smith:
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2007-10-28, 8:14 PM #15
That was almost a year ago. And also, Apple apologized.

I still don't own any products by apple though, and it was still inappropriate of them.
2007-10-28, 8:35 PM #16
Originally posted by Emon:
:psyduck:


*Berrzt* False positive on the sarcasm detector.
2007-10-28, 8:36 PM #17
:(
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2007-10-28, 8:37 PM #18
No, it was a year and a half ago. Talk about old news.
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2007-10-28, 8:38 PM #19
I saw that Emon.. don't you think you pulled one over on me.
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2007-10-28, 8:40 PM #20
What, the smith? I tried removing the broken text, and it converted it into :(

Apparently CM is :downs:
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2007-10-28, 8:43 PM #21
:smith:

All is good
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2007-10-28, 10:15 PM #22
Name any large corporation that is not an "asscan." Seriously, as soon as they reach some predetermined size, they all become this way. It's the nature of corporations. As soon as you cease serving the founders and start serving the shareholders, you have a really, really hard time doing what's right, especially if it cuts into the bottom line.
2007-10-28, 10:23 PM #23
*looks at teh Brain's sig*

Dead man talking! :[]

Anyway, it doesn't really say that she signed the letter as:

Shea O'Gorman
3rd Grade
Cordially,
Lord Tiberius Grismath
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2007-10-28, 10:28 PM #24
Originally posted by Brian:
Seriously, as soon as they reach some predetermined size, they all become this way.

All corporations sue their customers? :downs:
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2007-10-28, 10:40 PM #25
Originally posted by Emon:
All corporations sue their customers? :downs:


a publicly-traded company must abide by the wishes of its ownership, the investors, which are represented by a board of directors. This typically includes activities which are sociopathic because the investors demand the maximum possible return on their investment but don't care about the societal consequences because they don't feel directly involved.

apple's SOP is to silence criticism so as to increase market share. apple's SOP is to legally threaten people who send in suggestions, especially when said suggestions are already in R&D for a future version of the product, because if apple didn't then that little girl's mommy could sue apple for stealing the idea.
2007-10-28, 10:47 PM #26
Yeah, I don't see the big news story. Maybe a more appropriate letter could've been sent... but making a "we can't take suggestions" letter newsworthy and a valid attack on a company?

Apple has far worse things on their track record than generic cease and desists.
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2007-10-28, 10:57 PM #27
Of course, of course, it's just... :downs:
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2007-10-28, 11:24 PM #28
Am i the only one that sees that maybe they just have an automated response system?
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2007-10-28, 11:27 PM #29
An automated response system for letters written to Steve Jobs wouldn't know the letter was about a product suggestion.
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2007-10-28, 11:39 PM #30
Originally posted by Lord_Grismath:
Anyway, it doesn't really say that she signed the letter as:

Shea O'Gorman
3rd Grade


Exactly. From their point of view, they got an unsolicited letter about product ideas, which they can't accept, so they sent the most appropriate response. They most likely weren't aware of the fascinating backstory apparent to the situation.
2007-10-28, 11:43 PM #31
Originally posted by Emon:
An automated response system for letters written to Steve Jobs wouldn't know the letter was about a product suggestion.


Yea but you know they have a room with people who read letters, and when they see product suggestions they throw it into a bin so that all of those letters will get the same "hey stop sending us stuff" letters.
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
2007-10-29, 12:04 AM #32
If I were Steve Jobs, I'd personally respond to every single 3rd-grader letter I received.

...but the 4th graders could go to hell. :argh:
2007-10-29, 12:29 AM #33
That's something Steve Wozniak would and probably does do.

He spoke at RIT this past month, and during the Q&A session a guy from the robotics club wondered if he could stay in contact with him for consultation sort of things, like once per month. He said yes. :o
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2007-10-29, 11:15 AM #34
Sorry but I read the first line and got sad.

"Like any nine-year-old, Shea O'Gorman spends a lot of time listening to her iPod Nano."

I mean, seriously? 9?
nope.
2007-10-29, 11:52 AM #35
Originally posted by Emon:
That's something Steve Wozniak would and probably does do.

He spoke at RIT this past month, and during the Q&A session a guy from the robotics club wondered if he could stay in contact with him for consultation sort of things, like once per month. He said yes. :o


But Woz doesn't have an actual job.
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2007-10-29, 12:19 PM #36
Wasn't he the lead singer of Marcy Playground?
2007-10-29, 12:34 PM #37
Originally posted by Emon:
That's something Steve Wozniak would and probably does do.

He spoke at RIT this past month, and during the Q&A session a guy from the robotics club wondered if he could stay in contact with him for consultation sort of things, like once per month. He said yes. :o


Now imagine that a hundred people stay in contact with him to consult him, then a thousand, then a million... soon it becomes a full-time job just reading and responding to suggestions.
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Lord Tiberius Grismath
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2007-10-29, 1:20 PM #38
Originally posted by Lord_Grismath:
Now imagine that a hundred people stay in contact with him to consult him, then a thousand, then a million... soon it becomes a full-time job just reading and responding to suggestions.


this
Originally posted by fishstickz:
But Woz doesn't have an actual job.
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2007-10-29, 1:39 PM #39
I have only the vaguest idea of who Woz is, so I'll stop speaking out of ignorance. :)

(which I originally spelled ignorange)
Cordially,
Lord Tiberius Grismath
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2007-10-29, 2:55 PM #40
Originally posted by Lord_Grismath:
(which I originally spelled ignorange)


Is that ignorance but extruded over a distance?
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