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Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the behold-the-power-of-steve dept.

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?"

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  1. Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by eldavojohn · · 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.

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    1. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by Haffner · · Score: 5, Funny

      Am I the only one who immediately thought of the Season 5 finale of The Office when Dwight asks "How many people need to get hurt before we learn a lesson?" (or something) "One? Two? Three?" "Dwight..." "No, let me finish. Four? Five? Six?"

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    2. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by localman57 · · Score: 4, 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?

    3. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, Apple users are way less mature.

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    4. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy by skelterjohn · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's because the government had it taken out.

  2. Freedom from pron, criticism, open debate by ciaran_o_riordan · · 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.

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    1. Re:Freedom from pron, criticism, open debate by Reilaos · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, now this is freedom from having complications in your decision to by the revolutionary new iPhone!

  3. It's logical by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, that is what you do with bad apples, isn't it?

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  4. Get over it and by a bumper you cry babies! by LWATCDR · · 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).

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    1. Re:Get over it and by a bumper you cry babies! by biryokumaru · · Score: 3, Funny

      "You just paid 40 grand for a new car that was supposed to run great. So what if the engine fell out? Stop whining already and drop that measly 5k to put a new one in it."

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  5. Re:To think that this is the company..... by HerculesMO · · Score: 5, Funny

    Touche.

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  6. No... by SmurfButcher+Bob · · Score: 3, Funny

    No... they're posting it wrong.

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  7. Re:Power Play by Consumers Union by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 4, 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!

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  8. Re:New Logo Please by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Found it

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  9. Re:To think that this is the company..... by cc1984_ · · Score: 3, Funny

    You spelt touchy wrong

  10. Re:It is their site. by men0s · · Score: 3, Funny

    Although, I would make sure all the chairs are properly secured before-hand..

  11. Holy crap! by psydeshow · · Score: 3, Funny

    The real news here is that they actually paid attention to something that was said in their support forums. :-p

  12. Re:Look it up by Syberz · · Score: 3, 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.

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