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Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats
An anonymous reader writes: Since 2005, Monster cables have been licensed under Apple's "Made For iDevice" program, which lets cable manufacturers put a logo on their product signifying they work with Apple products. Now, Apple has revoked that certification. In January of this year, Monster sued Beats, accusing its founders of fraud. Beats was acquired by Apple in 2014, and Monster is accusing Apple of bullying them by terminating the licensing deal. Monster's general counsel said the move would "significantly disrupt Monster's business and that the two companies had worked well for years, with Monster paying Apple more than $12 million in licensing fees since 2008."
Flim-flam cable maker suing overpriced hipster baiting electronics firm over tacky rich kid headphones.
Fetch me my popcorn
Seems like it would be a natural market for them.
The company whose entire business is based on selling overpriced cables to phools is accusing another company of fraud?
The guitarist in a band I've engineered for is stone deaf but thinks of himself as an audiophile. He can't hear the hum coming out of his guitar amp, but swears by these overpriced interconnect cables as well as the special acoustic pad that he puts said humming amp on. One night I pointed out one of the XLR cables to him and said, "You see that $10 cable there? Whatever you're listening to went through one of those." He didn't say another word to me all night.
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so that's like what? 6 cables?
Apple only charges around 2-3 times more for a cable than the competition.
Monster's level of bullshit is another sport entirely.
Buying genuine Apple stuff is like buying parts from the dealership for you car. More expensive, and may or may not be any better than what you can get elsewhere.
Buying anything Monster is like buying a bottle of $100 window cleaner that has specially aligned atoms that will reduce wind resistance and increase speed on your car.
Grammer Nazis - I mod you "troll" unless you actually add something on-topic. Yes, I know I have mispellings in my sig.
At that moment, you surely felt better than him, right?
Really, I mean, what's wrong with leaving people to their own harmless opinions, no matter how wrong?
It is not harmless. He is hurting his own economy for one thing. Secondly, if he is performing and is wasting money on useles crap instead of fixing the broken equipment that is causing bad audio, the audience suffers too.
So now the good folks at Monster will have to go put black stickers over the "Made for iDevice" logos on their packages, and the millions of hipsters will cry out in horror as their overpriced headphones will no longer work with their iPhones.
realistic understanding of the Cult of Ayn Rand
If there ever was an oxymoron....
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
fancy-pants ones have this great braid on them that makes them slide across one another easily
I was going to ask what exactly are you doing such that 'sliding across one another easily' is important but then I decided that was probably not a good idea.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
That's why I make sure to use dust-plated connectors.
One asks the another, where is your attorney? They answer: he was disbarred this morning.