Steve Jobs, You Evil Genius You (part 2)

October 22nd, 2007
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Miscellaneous | 8 Comments

Steve Jobs is in perilous waters. People are starting to wake up and see through his reality distortion field. He mercilessly slapped early adopters in the face, with his $200 price drop for the iPhone. He only half-appeased them with the $100 rebate. Then he created an “upgrade” to iBrick the iPhones that had been hacked to work with other networks, and also block any third-party applications. To palliate this, he promised to release a software development kit for the iPhone…next year, when interest in third-party applications has waned. If you want to create applications for the current inception of the iPhone, they must be web applications only.

The degree of selfishness he has gone to is evident in this article, from the Honduran newspaper Tiempo‘s blogs. It says there is a hidden sensor in iPhones and the new iPods that changes color permanently when it comes in contact with water. This is to be able to tell when the unit has water damage and thus the warranty is void.

This is perfectly good and legal, they should protect their own interests, but still, it smacks of evil, doesn’t it?

Image by Eric Skiff, used under a Creative Commons license

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  • medea

    I agree on most everything… except on the “hidden sensor”.

    It is probably just what any other cellphone everywhere has: a liquid damage indicator, which is a sticker that changes color when it gets wet.

    on wikihow they call them liquid damage indicators. They say you could just open it, carefully remove the stickers and then if it gets wet, you could just restick the stickers before sending it off to get repaired. I mean, if you were the sort of person with no morals capable of doing such an evil deed ;)

  • Aaron Ortiz

    Ha, ha, ha, no, I’m not that evil…at least not consciously.

  • La Gringa

    Well, what about Tigo, whose employees look for a scratch on your phone and then say your warranty is no good because you’ve obviously mistreated your phone?

    My phone gets scratched in my purse. It doesn’t mean that I have ever dropped it or thrown it across the room!

    I’m not trying to stick up for Steve jobs in any way, but what warranties are ever honored in Honduras? ;-)

  • Aaron Ortiz

    Yeah! A friend of mine bought an HP laptop in Jetstereo that had a defective port. She took it back in the first week after buying it and they wouldn’t replace it, saying they’d try to repair it. More than a month has gone by and they haven’t returned it!

  • La Gringa

    A friend told us about buying a computer in La Ceiba — I don’t know which store. It has a seal on the case and he was told if he ever opens his OWN computer, the warranty is void.

    Hey! Isn’t it a good idea to air dust the inside of your computer? Or wouldn’t you ever have to check a connection or add something to it? Jeesh, that policy is stupid and insulting and wrong.

    Just as likely, the reason is that the insides of his computer don’t include whatever components he was told it does when he bought it.

    As far as the price of the Iphones…How many hundreds of dollars more than the US price are they selling for in Honduras? Do you consider those sellers evil, too?

  • Aaron Ortiz

    I’ve bought four computers since 1997, two brand name computers, and two clones. I voided the warranty on my first computer as soon as I took it out of the US, so opening it wasn’t a concern.

    But anywhere if you open a computer, you void it’s warranty. Being a computer science major, I figure I can fix the computer myself and don’t really need a warranty except for factory defects.

    For many years the people who imported electronics tried to scam Hondurans by overcharging them, so instead, the Hondurans would buy directly from the States. Greed gets in the way of profit. Yes I consider greed evil!

    Lately prices have been dropping so now it costs almost the same to buy some electronics here as in the States. There are notable exceptions, (novelty items like iPods and iPhones) but eventually the price will fall.

    I usually order my electronics from Amazon, and save $100 or more, even paying for shipping and handling. The first thing I bought directly was my laptop, which at 27 K Lps. wasn’t too overpriced. I won’t be buying anything expensive for the next few months though, I need to save money for the trip!

  • La Gringa

    Can you give me any advice about what kind of computer to buy? I really don’t want to buy one in Honduras — you know, the lack of trust thing. And I don’t want pirated software.

    I’ve never heard of opening a computer voiding a warranty before I came to Honduras and I’ve been buying computers a long time — and opening all of the them to add more memory, clean them, etc. After all, the manuals tell you how to do it.

  • Aaron Ortiz

    Hi Gringa, I think many people would like to know what computer to buy, so I’ll blog about it today.

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