Posts by djstardust

Typical large company

People at the top milking it off and the other 99% of employees treated like shit.

Something has to change and soon.

What do you expect?

When Apple sold "niche" products they were high quality, beautiful and the OOBE was fantastic.

Now they are just another high volume tech company like M$ who chase the dollar and don't give a shit about the consumer.

Thing is that mugs keep going back for more. One of my mates had an iphone 6 and the motherboard died. It was out of the one year warranty and he didn't pay more for Apple care so they hit him £300 for a new board. He swore he would never ever darken their doorstep ever again ..... and now he's on Facebook asking mates whether he should get the 8 plus or the X.

As long as people keep on drinking the Apple juice nothing will change.

Meanwhile .....

BT put up broadband by £2.50 per month in January, after sending a previous email saying our speed increase was in fact free of charge (previous increases Apr 17, Jul 16, Sep 15)

BT Profits increase year on year again (although this year may be screwed because of the accounting scandal)

OFFCOM empoyees sit and do nothing (apart from laugh at us because they are on 100K+ a year) despite being in place to regulate the industry and protect the consumer.

Thing is that BT management know the UK Government have no long term strategy (as ministers don't stay in the job that long) and play them for fools.

This is one fucked up country.

RBS?

Always thought thought that for Rubbish Bank of Shiters.

They reduced our local branch to 3 half days a week so we moved our business accounts away from them.

Maybe an alien thought for those in power but cost cutting does lose clients.

Why oh why

Why do Apple do this to themselves.

No-one had issue with the fingerprint scanner or a passcode.

Whatever ....

Can we just get a phone that works and has a battery that lasts more than ten minutes please?

I took a power bank with me on a stag weekend which I'm just back from, just in case I needed it for my Note 4, which I didn't. Seven out of the ten people on the trip were iphone users, and all their phones were dead by 8pm apart from one.

All this AR crap will just eat more battery whilst providing nothing for the average phone user.

Ah well

I gave them one more chance and they've blown it.

They used the same excuses about better CS last time, but last week I called eight times and got India every single time.

Vodafone here I come. Screw you BT.

Demo models of Samsung phones

Have real bad burn-in

Just go to a Vodafone store and look at the S8 or S8 plus, it's horrendous. But they are on 24/7 with a red screen permanently in place.

My Note 4 I have had since it came out has no burn in whatsoever, but I'm not so sure about the newer models as they seem more prone to it?

Facebook is finished

I have seen less and less feeds from friends lately. Seems many are walking away. Facebook now generally consists of:

Football memes

Cat videos

What the neighbour had for breakfast, or lunch, or dinner.

People with a political point to prove

Click and win competitions with no prize

Who will be your celebrity lover and other assorted fake crap

People with insecurity or an attention seeking disorder.

Remember Bebo, Myspace, Friends Reunited?

Facebook will be next. Being big doesn't make you immune from failure. Watch Ryanair slowly go down the pan as well.

So in essence

The Note 8 costs £150 to make and sells for £869. Nice work boys!

Just like Apple

They think they can get away with selling mid range crap at an exorbitant price.

No luck.

Add to that the 2XL being made by LG with their terrible quality and it's not looking good.

Wouldn't touch them with a bargepole.

LG

Are a fucking disaster.

Their phones are poor quality and they try any excuse not to honour the warranty, even down to if you're not the first owner the warranty is completely void.

Their washing machines are crap, they go out of balance constantly and won't spin, but that's my fault for not loading it properly. the smart diagnosis doesn't work over the phone and the Android app doesn't even start.

Utter shambles of a company. Best avoided at all costs.

Don't worry ....

There will be another price rise on the way soon. Not been one for a couple of months.

Why can't telecoms providers just be nice and fair instead of cutting each other up with deals for new customers and price increases for the loyal ones?

When the last price rise was announced I called them up and they refused to do anything about it or even price match a competitor. One week later they were on the telly offering new customers a better deal but were willing to lose an existing one. That plainly doesn't make sense.

So much for BT moving Customer Service back to the UK .... I called last week 8 times randomly and got connected to India each time. I smell bullshit.

Screw that .....

Unless all drivers are criminal record checked as a minimum. Can't see that happening as courier driving seems to be a popular pastime for criminals getting back to work.

Whoever thinks up this utter shit would fit in better at Microsoft ........

Well yeah ....

The Huawei/Honor phones are decent tech and good value for money.

The only special thing about Apple phones is the ecosystem (to some) and the badge.

I'm amazed that people know how much mark up is on an Apple device then still gladly hand over their money. Samsung and Google are playing that game now and it isn't going to end well for them.

I have had Samsung devices since the Omnia HD in 2009, including Galaxy S, S2, S3, Note 2, S7 edge and now Note 4. The price of the latest models is shocking for no justifiable reason so my next handset will be Honor. Nothing special about the Samsung phones for almost twice the price. Also the position of the fingerprint scanner on the 8 series models is insane and renders it unusable.

I really hope others see this as well. we're being taken for mugs.

This is great.....

I can now tell Scotrail, Ryanair, M&S & WH Smith why I dislike them so much in finer detail.

Thank you Twitter.

Bill Gates

Has moved to Android

Nuff said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41399823

Someome needs to tell

Their aggressive chuggers then.

They tell everyone it's the best thing since sliced bread and the service is wonderful.

Of course, the chuggers are "offshored" to other companies and don't even work for Talk Talk.

Hashtag

Fail

Or a deliberate attempt to lock out the competition?

Just proves the point

That Apple are losing it.

Their products are a botch up these days with cheap components and restricted ports to cut manufacturing costs and increase margin.

iOS 11 seems a bit of a mess and don't even get me started on the animated emoji stuff.

Soon only under 8's, pensioners and idiots will buy their overpriced tat .... and that will be the beginning of the end.

Hmmm

Despite the currency fluctuatiion et al, I still can't help thinking Apple, M$, Samsung etc have just used this as a bloody good excuse to increase margins and shaft UK punters at the same time.

The price of Apple products especially are horrific (and the actual products aren't too great either) so it will just take people to stop buying to reverse this worrying trend.

Interstingly Huawei/Honor products have gone up too (although not nearly as much) and they're good value for money unless you want to impress with the latest shiny shiny.

Give it 18 months to see how it pans out.

Hopefully by then Ryanair will be gone too :)

Oh yeah .....

Oh, and if you do decide to update straight away, please do the sensible thing and take a backup.

See, this is precisely the reason I don't use Apple products any more. I had three iOS updates and three failures. I lost everything as the backups were corrupted and wouldn't work after the update.

Never again.

Hmmmm

Under the plans, Ofcom will ban providers from charging for caller display facilities

Ah well, that'll be another £1.75 on my monthly line rental in one of BT's 4 price increases next year ......

So much

For the Apple "it just works"

Everything they sell nowadays is half baked and full of caveats. Twice the price mind you.

This is the problem

with Limited Companies.

The law needs to change so they can't just dissolve when it suits them and also the directors should be personally made responsible for CCJs and fines.

A bit

Late to the party. this has been going on for years and years.

Unfortunately people buy from these charlatans and get poor and in some case knock off products. And the warranty is useless too.

eBay don't even respond to complaints as long as the money keeps rolling in.

Even Samsung

Are starting to take the piss.

I seem to remember my Galaxy S being less than £400.

It seems every new release they are whacking on £50 to £100 and just remember the 256gb Note 8 will be around the £1000 mark as well.

Seriously, if a badge isn't important you will get an almost as good handset from Huawei/Honor at less than half the price.

It amazes me ......

How Microsoft are still in business. Todays example.

I get an email telling me to update Skype or it will stop working.

I go to skype, select upfdate and it fails.

It gives me a link to the Skype web page which doesn't exist.

I go to Google and find the Skype webpage and hit download. It loads a stub which then does nothing for 5 minutes then tells me it can't contact the Skype server to download.

I then have to find the full installer and eventually it installs and works.

There's a prime example of the clusterfuck that Microsoft are. And they don't realise it ..... or care.

P.S. [disclaimer] the only reason I have Skype is so the wife can talk to her parents in Cyprus [/disclaimer]

Not great ....

I have a 3 year old Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and it has been absolutely faultless. It cost £1200 but has been worth every penny and there really is nothing wrong with the design or performance.

It's a shame with Dell because they screw up on the basics time and time again and never listen to customer feedback.

Same with the XPS 15 which has plenty of room for a "proper" keyboard but they put the one from the 13" in to save a couple of quid

Idiots.

Profits Profits Profits

Reminds me of a company I used to work for in Aberdeen.

Pretty similar if you dug in to the policy. They did ask me to travel but I refused as it would have cost me a fair bit of my own money to bring in work for them.

Seems some companies have lost the human touch.

Really ....

In 2010 the top of the range handsets were around £400 (iphone 4 & Galaxy S) and an average contract was £25 - £28 pm

In 2017 the equivalent handsets are £850 and contracts are £50 - £55 pm

So the cost has effectively doubled in 7 years however if you use an inflation calculator the £400 should now be around £480.

Greedy manufacturers are to blame, oh and CPW may have changed but a lot of people still remember the good old days.

Hmmmm

Thing is the police aren't interested in this type of crime in the slightest, but if you call someone fat on Twitter they're banging your door down in minutes. Policing priorities are all wrong and so are the penalties. Internet crime has a huge impact on people's lives but the perpetrators seem to get away with it time and time again.

Old Skool

I still have a 1989 Technics separates system running to a 1993 Wharfedale sub and satellites. Sounds like a nightclub and produces "proper" stereo unlike that sonos crap in a corner.

OK, so I have had to run the cabling behind walls and under the floor but the advantage is a better sound and no-one slurping my private data.

LG UK

Have the worst customer support on the planet.

Add to that the appalling build quality on some of their recent handsets and this is best avoided like the plague.

Even if it is released in the UK past precedence tells us half the components will be missing anyway.