Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions 588
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has done it again. All threads about Consumer Report's iPhone4 non-recommendation are removed or deleted.
If it happened once, maybe you'd say it was a glitch. But what if it happened twice? Three times? Four times, five, six?"
Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:5, Funny)
If it happened once, maybe you'd say it was a glitch. But what if it happened twice? Three times? Four times, five, six?
Keep it up until your 32,768th post when they'll regret using a signed short int for the NUM_POSTS_CENSORED value in your forum profile.
Freedom from pron, criticism, open debate (Score:5, Funny)
Yeh, when Jobs said his control over every Apple-user's computing was about "freedom from porn", we could have guessed that "porn" was just being dragged up as a convenient excuse.
It's logical (Score:4, Funny)
Get over it and by a bumper you cry babies! (Score:5, Funny)
Really you just paid $299 for your phone. You pay goodness knows how much a month for your 2 GB capped data plan. Just suck it up and buy the $30 bumper! what is the big deal!
(This message was sent from my Android phone on the Sprint network).
Re:Freedom from pron, criticism, open debate (Score:4, Funny)
Well, now this is freedom from having complications in your decision to by the revolutionary new iPhone!
Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's logical (Score:2, Funny)
Well, that is what you do with bad apples, isn't it?
Bad apples, broken windows or dead penguins, ... I don't care which it is, I chuck them all into the bin.
Re:Get over it and by a bumper you cry babies! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:To think that this is the company..... (Score:5, Funny)
Touche.
Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:5, Funny)
I'm pretty sure there is a clause allowing them to "moderate" according to whatever values they want.
So it's like 4chan then?
Re:Get over it and by a bumper you cry babies! (Score:2, Funny)
Methinks your /sarcasm sensor needs recalibrated.
Or, in Slashdot terms...
WOOSH!
Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:3, Funny)
No... (Score:4, Funny)
No... they're posting it wrong.
Look it up (Score:1, Funny)
If someone says something, and you remove it, that's censorship.
No, it's not.
Censorship is:
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable ; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable
There are plenty of discussions about this issue on the Apple support boards which are not being removed.
The multiple posts about an external magazine review have been removed because discussing magazine articles is offtopic for a tech support board, just as discussing the latest Huffington Post article on Angelina Jolie is offtopic.
Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Power Play by Consumers Union (Score:5, Funny)
This seems like a power play to provide more relevance to Consumer's Union than a specific attack on Apple. I am by no means an Apple fan but this issue seems potentially overstated.
Absolutely overstated! I mean, who really wants their phone to actually BEHAVE as a phone! Insanity, I tell you, insanity!
Re:It's a support forum... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:5, Funny)
That's because the government had it taken out.
Re:New Logo Please (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:3, Funny)
>>>I had a very tasty pig murdered for my Cuban sandwich just yesterday. Strange, but I don't feel guilty about it.
I executed some wheat, sugar cane, and coconuts, and baked their carcasses into a donut. I don't feel guilty about murdering these things either. It's either eat or die.
Re:To think that this is the company..... (Score:3, Funny)
You spelt touchy wrong
Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:2, Funny)
It might be, but it's too hard to light...
Re:It is their site. (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno. Ballmer might whip out his Zune and try to squirt the tykes.
Re:It is their site. (Score:3, Funny)
Holy crap! (Score:4, Funny)
The real news here is that they actually paid attention to something that was said in their support forums. :-p
Re:Look it up (Score:4, Funny)
a magazine article about the iPhone is off-topic in a tech support board dedicated to the iPhone?
Here's probably what happened:
iPhone customer: Yeah, reception sucks on my new iPhone 4.
AppleGeek: No it doesn't, I bet you're holding it with your hands? You're doing it wrong.
iPhone customer: Uh, there's a bunch of threads on the subject, many of us are having the same issue.
AppleGeek: They're doing it wrong too.
iPhone customer: There's even an article in Consumer Report that mentions it! Here's the link -->
AppleGeek: *pulls out the ban-hammer*
iPhone customer, having a half-caf decaf soy mocha latte with a lemon twaist at Le Expensive Coffee: Where'd my thread go?
*Bonus points to whoever gets the "lemon twaist" reference.
Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy (Score:3, Funny)
If Apple really can't stand people poking fun at them when they screw up, perhaps they should stop being so fucking secretive and start doing some proper testing in the real world.
They were gonna do that, but unfortunately the guy who was supposed to carry out those tests lost his iPhone in a bar...
Re:It is their site. (Score:1, Funny)