Similar story for 2011 Q1 MBP, it seems like the Graphics are defect for several models and suddenly started to fail for several customers about now... +800 posts, NO RESPONSE AND CENSORSHIP FROM APPLE!! Think twice before buying a new Macbook Pro:
At this point I offer to pay out of pocket for a new logic board even though I am covered under AppleCare. 3 days after first calling Apple, I just want my machine working. They tell me they won't even do that unless their iMemoryTester comes back with an error. So, they offer to mail it to a repair facility to see if they can figure out what's wrong. So, I'm now into a process that they tell me will take an additional 5 days, and they may still elect to not fix the problem unless they can reproduce a problem that is intermittent in the OS and is reliably flagged by memtest86.
I used to believe that a laptop and AppleCare was a way to have a worry-free three-year cycle. What I'm going through right now is making me reconsider that.
This isn't germane to the topic of censorship, but appears consistent with Apple not giving a crap about certain classes of problems.
No need to think twice at all.
I'm a software-developer and my livelihood depends on being able to write code freely, without getting censored and threatened with litigation, bullshit patents and rounded corners.
Thus patent trolls and people abusing software patents for anti-competitive purposes is a direct threat to my livelihood and supporting that is directly unintuitive, borderline madness.
I have an ethical code of software conduct and it's very simple: I don't deal with patent-trolls. None. That includes not buying anything from Apple.
Then I'm sure you don't buy any products that contain Samsung NAND NVRAM, nor do you purchase anything with Qualcomm chips, as a significant portion of their revenue comes from aggressive patent licensing, right?
Listen, I hate patent trolls as much as the next guy, but patent licensing is a very common business tactic everywhere. Don't make broad, over reaching comments if you don't actually mean them. You're perfectly fine with not buying Apple products because you don't like Apple. I don't like LG products, so I try not to buy LG. But, lets be realistic here.
Definitely adding them to my list of companies to not buy, thanks for the tips.
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