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I have an iPhone and my recommendation in regards to your problem is to get a Samsung.

I knew I'd get a Samsung reply. I wish I had one now haha...it's just so infuriating when technology is a campaigner
 
I'm totally changing my name if I remember later.

do I have to sign up to the social club or something?

I have the worst username on bigfooty

Don't change it man. I only regret one thing in my life.
 
Not buying a flat above a pub, like Drew Carey Show?

I'd rather live under a pub than over one. I thought Drew Carey was good for about a season, maybe two but then turned to poo.

Did you watch the Bunheads premiere on Fox8 last night? Looks like a riveting show, it will become my favourite no doubt whatsoever.
 
Ooh, I'll have to check it out
 

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Sorry, dumb question here. Is there an 'Platinum Membership - https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/account/upgrades ;)' via the Big Footy page or do you have to install it to the computer?
 
So, being a salesperson in electronics, I've had enough of Apples bullshit and their horrible treatment of sales staff.

They have 4 different ipads right...

Ipad > ipad2 > the new ipad > the new ipad with retina


Ok, so "the new ipad" had a retina display as well, so why are they marketing the latest one as "the new ipad with retina" reason being, no one realised the last one had a retina, so they are just using it as a selling point, even though you cant tell the difference between an ipad 2 and any of the last 2 generations.

As a salesperson, we are not allowed to refer to any of their products by generation, we are not allowed to call the latest one the 4th generation, we aren't allowed to call it "the latest ipad", we have to call it "the new ipad with retina" or face "losing their products from your store". Okay so how do you explain all of this to customers, they come in going "I want the new ipad" you go "Do you mean the new ipad, or the new new ipad?" and they're like "wut." I mean do you want "the new ipad with retina?" "...yes the one with the retina display." "so do you mean the new ipad that has retina or the new ipad with retina?"

You can see where I'm going with this. They are taking advantage of people, and then trying to make us take advantage of people by not mentioning the fact their previous products were virtually the same.

Screw apple, they can't threaten me if I tell the truth to customers about their shit marketing tactics and the fact all their products are the same, but marketed as 'new'. I hope their 'empire' falls, even their reps are dicks, he was banging on to me about how their apple benches are made from pine felled at a particular time in the season because it gives it a nicer sheen, and that apple have a private forest to make the apple benches.

...then they proceeded to charge us 20,000 dollars to FLY SOMEONE FROM CALIFORNIA, to put a new benchtop on because some teenagers had carved the shit out of it.
oh, not to mention the fact they charge us 30,000 dollars a year to even have the apple bench in our store, claiming that its a privilege to be able to sell their stock...

Tell me why this is the case, because we moved $1,000,000 of apple stock and made $10,000 dollars, that's right, a 1% profit...They're over priced rubbish costs thousands to buy into the store and then we make nothing when it eventually sells. Apple pay NO back end margin (unlike sony, samsung, dell, toshiba, asus etc.) either, so what we get is what we get.

You tell me how it's logical to have a cost price of 1400 on a 1450 dollar computer (which has hardware inside of it that is dated 3-4 years and is worth around 300 dollars at most, their mark ups are INSANE, when they don't pay back end they would be making a thousand PER UNIT SOLD)
Apple bleed retailers, and consumers dry and have huge profits because their products are very low cost to make because they use some of the lowest spec hardware on the market, and get it all put together in a chinese foxconn factory where workers have to sign a stat dec to say they will not commit suicide.

Do not buy apple, for the love of god.


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TLDR: Apple sucks, and give absolutely nothing to the retailers who sell their products (in fact they charge retailers who do.), and treat retailers like absolute shit. Also con consumers into believing their new series of products are different to the last in any way.
 
All I know is my new iPhone with retina takes craps on my old Nokia with wifi insensitivity from many miles up.
 
I would argue with that statement but I don't know enough to.
 

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