Almost certainly tons of fake reviews and possibly fake downloads where they use promo codes etc. I highly doubt so many Mac users are using this. Check this article out: https://www.wsj.com/articles/h...
Fake reviews for products is a HUGE industry and almost certainly thousands of people in India got paid to astroturf this app to the top. Amazon is literally being crippled by fake reviews and dodgy products.
Chrome has a terrible record for this. And the worst part is I use Chrome. Have a bunch of extensions I count on daily. I'm guessing the Ublock Origin extension is safe but for my and your other less popular but still super helpful extensions you and I are taking HUGE risks every day by using them.
I heard in addition to no headphone jack and no home button they have removed the microphone and speaker as well. You just have to drive to a cell phone tower and yell at it...
User Hostile, nobody wants this. Actively making your product worse just to force users into buy $150 headphones that nobody wants that you have to recharge every day and will be dead in a few years.
Stop flooding your entire Store with counterfeit goods. Also stop bundling everything with the now "more expensive than ever" Prime service. Does almost a 200 billion dollar a year company that has 40% of all e-commerce need to keep constantly raising its monthly charges? 40% freaking percent, please take a minute to think about that. When is enough enough and how big is too big. * I like my 2 day shipping and Fire TV but it doesn't mean I can't point out their issues.
That"s not what my research shows. Sound like more like a made up anti-environmental myth than anything. Brands that were less reliable previously have had to step up their game and produce more reliable cars that get better mileage. IMHO forcing higher mileage targets has forced an explosion of innovation and super powerful fuel efficient cars. Hell look what the super cats are doing now. The only place it's gone off the rails is Driver distraction and infotainment systems. But hopefully within the next five years things will improve there.
They have way too much market share and are acting just like cable monopolies by bundling services and increasing prices. Considering how many billions they brought in last year this is pigging out at the expense of the consumer.
If we had one single company that owned all the TV stations all the magazines all the radio stations and all the Internet infrastructure i'm sure we would get better customer service and the pricing would probably be better too. Why do liberals keep wanting to harm corporations who are just trying to innovate?
Apps I can"t ever roll back, have zero control over and where any update may break/change the app fundamentally and there is nothing you can do about it? Yea, no thanks. I don't care if it is the future I like my MacBook as is.
My favorite part about the scum bag ISPs is the pricing. Even though the pricing for transferring data has plummeted over the years the prices to the consumer have only gone up. Why aren't we paying $19 a month for unlimited Internet? Why aren't the states doing anything about this and protecting us from clear abuse? BTW for those of you with a lot of money to spare you can buy off of State Senators for a very very small amount of money just in case you were wondering.
Give all the Stats you want. In America, one of the richest country's in the world, we simply don't give a shit about Poverty or Healthcare issues and have no interest in solving them.
Now an entirely new generation of users can find out what it's like to see an app get worse and worse with every release. iTunes is the ultimate example of how Apple has no regard its users. Using iTunes from the beginning until now has been in a word painful.
Apple: Oh you'll need some battery powered headphone to do that, we just happen to sell some.
Me: Screw you, I don't want to own some shitty Bluetooth headphones. Ever. I just don't like em.
First person who tells me I need to re-buy hundreds and hundreds of dollars in headphones I currently own just because of this one huge stupid flaw gets a kick in the ass. This is such a stupid reason for me to have to buy an Android phone instead of an iPhone.
Donald Trunp has just announced he wants to build a wall to keep out illegal aliens from the newly discovered planet. He also promised said aliens would be paying for the wall themselves.....
Do people not know about this extension? Nothing better than sucking 20 tabs into a nice group you can label and get back to later. It's the only thing that makes the bloated chrome useable.
Btw side note why isn't Chrome blazing fast at this point? I mean so fast you can't believe the pages loads before you noticed? Is all the code really that far abstracted from the metal? Shouldn't it be leak proof and ultra low memory no matter how badly behaved a webpage is? Can't a company worth half a Trillion dollars make a better browser?
It didn't catch it for me. As posted you really to make sure and keep GWX updated and I assume use Monitor mode which I hadn't turned on yet. Not sure if it would have known to stop that latest update.
I just happened to see there was an update, normally don't look at them since GWX was installed, and saw that fucking turd of an update trying to force it's way on to my HTPC. Would have been a real problem for me.
This is Comcast we are talking about. I'm sure watching the video counts towards your data cap.
Today I got a flyer for Comcast w/DVR for $89 month. Great! Right?
Actually let's see what the real price is. $89 base fee+$5 Broadcast TV Fee+$3 Regional Sports Free+$10 HD Technology Fee(what? you thought HD was included?)+$10 Cable Modem Free+Other taxes and fees. So really that $89 is actually $120 month plus tax. And after 1yr it's $130 month plus tax.
Comcast, "we charge 40-50% above our teaser rates because we can".
You can delete this off your site right now. The Wired ISP's don't need any more ammo in their campaign to get rid of all Wired internet and force everyone onto shitty small capped LTE connections.
Price, Speed, Caps, we are a long way from Wireless being able to take over for Wired for the majority of Americans.
I keep saying this every year but why the hell aren't we paying $19 a month for Gb unlimited internet connections for everyone American at this point? This needs to be one of those Kennedy moments where a speech is given and we make it a priority to make this happen for all Americans within 5 years. Plenty of unemployed/underemployed Americans would jump on the opportunity to help build out our infrastructure.
Before Amazon made any changes Apple was leading the way. Of course plenty of people like the new font but then again there are an awful lot of guides on how to how to make the fonts more readable in IOS and El Capitan.
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Almost certainly tons of fake reviews and possibly fake downloads where they use promo codes etc. I highly doubt so many Mac users are using this.
Check this article out:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/h...
Fake reviews for products is a HUGE industry and almost certainly thousands of people in India got paid to astroturf this app to the top. Amazon is literally being crippled by fake reviews and dodgy products.
Chrome has a terrible record for this. And the worst part is I use Chrome. Have a bunch of extensions I count on daily. I'm guessing the Ublock Origin extension is safe but for my and your other less popular but still super helpful extensions you and I are taking HUGE risks every day by using them.
Get your shit together Google.
I heard in addition to no headphone jack and no home button they have removed the microphone and speaker as well. You just have to drive to a cell phone tower and yell at it...
By then 100% of devices will no longer have a regular headphone jack so that will be great too. Who could ever have imagined a future so bright?
User Hostile, nobody wants this. Actively making your product worse just to force users into buy $150 headphones that nobody wants that you have to recharge every day and will be dead in a few years.
Fucking Stupid
Stop flooding your entire Store with counterfeit goods. Also stop bundling everything with the now "more expensive than ever" Prime service. Does almost a 200 billion dollar a year company that has 40% of all e-commerce need to keep constantly raising its monthly charges? 40% freaking percent, please take a minute to think about that. When is enough enough and how big is too big. * I like my 2 day shipping and Fire TV but it doesn't mean I can't point out their issues.
That"s not what my research shows. Sound like more like a made up anti-environmental myth than anything. Brands that were less reliable previously have had to step up their game and produce more reliable cars that get better mileage. IMHO forcing higher mileage targets has forced an explosion of innovation and super powerful fuel efficient cars. Hell look what the super cats are doing now. The only place it's gone off the rails is Driver distraction and infotainment systems. But hopefully within the next five years things will improve there.
You think it's not being heavily manipulated now?
They have way too much market share and are acting just like cable monopolies by bundling services and increasing prices. Considering how many billions they brought in last year this is pigging out at the expense of the consumer.
Whoosh.....
If we had one single company that owned all the TV stations all the magazines all the radio stations and all the Internet infrastructure i'm sure we would get better customer service and the pricing would probably be better too. Why do liberals keep wanting to harm corporations who are just trying to innovate?
Apps I can"t ever roll back, have zero control over and where any update may break/change the app fundamentally and there is nothing you can do about it? Yea, no thanks. I don't care if it is the future I like my MacBook as is.
My favorite part about the scum bag ISPs is the pricing. Even though the pricing for transferring data has plummeted over the years the prices to the consumer have only gone up. Why aren't we paying $19 a month for unlimited Internet? Why aren't the states doing anything about this and protecting us from clear abuse? BTW for those of you with a lot of money to spare you can buy off of State Senators for a very very small amount of money just in case you were wondering.
Give all the Stats you want. In America, one of the richest country's in the world, we simply don't give a shit about Poverty or Healthcare issues and have no interest in solving them.
I have a Bluetooth mouse but that's only because I fed him blueberries.
Now an entirely new generation of users can find out what it's like to see an app get worse and worse with every release. iTunes is the ultimate example of how Apple has no regard its users. Using iTunes from the beginning until now has been in a word painful.
Apple: Oh you'll need some battery powered headphone to do that, we just happen to sell some.
Me: Screw you, I don't want to own some shitty Bluetooth headphones. Ever. I just don't like em.
First person who tells me I need to re-buy hundreds and hundreds of dollars in headphones I currently own just because of this one huge stupid flaw gets a kick in the ass. This is such a stupid reason for me to have to buy an Android phone instead of an iPhone.
Donald Trunp has just announced he wants to build a wall to keep out illegal aliens from the newly discovered planet. He also promised said aliens would be paying for the wall themselves.....
Do people not know about this extension? Nothing better than sucking 20 tabs into a nice group you can label and get back to later. It's the only thing that makes the bloated chrome useable.
Btw side note why isn't Chrome blazing fast at this point? I mean so fast you can't believe the pages loads before you noticed? Is all the code really that far abstracted from the metal? Shouldn't it be leak proof and ultra low memory no matter how badly behaved a webpage is? Can't a company worth half a Trillion dollars make a better browser?
On a Core2Duo you should be using Safari with ClickToFlash. That and max out mem with an SSD if you haven't already.
It didn't catch it for me. As posted you really to make sure and keep GWX updated and I assume use Monitor mode which I hadn't turned on yet. Not sure if it would have known to stop that latest update.
I just happened to see there was an update, normally don't look at them since GWX was installed, and saw that fucking turd of an update trying to force it's way on to my HTPC. Would have been a real problem for me.
Stop asking for more Free Entitlements you lazy anti-American communist! Helping your fellow citizens is a sign of weakness!
This is Comcast we are talking about. I'm sure watching the video counts towards your data cap.
Today I got a flyer for Comcast w/DVR for $89 month. Great! Right?
Actually let's see what the real price is. $89 base fee+$5 Broadcast TV Fee+$3 Regional Sports Free+$10 HD Technology Fee(what? you thought HD was included?)+$10 Cable Modem Free+Other taxes and fees. So really that $89 is actually $120 month plus tax. And after 1yr it's $130 month plus tax.
Comcast, "we charge 40-50% above our teaser rates because we can".
You can delete this off your site right now. The Wired ISP's don't need any more ammo in their campaign to get rid of all Wired internet and force everyone onto shitty small capped LTE connections.
Price, Speed, Caps, we are a long way from Wireless being able to take over for Wired for the majority of Americans.
I keep saying this every year but why the hell aren't we paying $19 a month for Gb unlimited internet connections for everyone American at this point? This needs to be one of those Kennedy moments where a speech is given and we make it a priority to make this happen for all Americans within 5 years. Plenty of unemployed/underemployed Americans would jump on the opportunity to help build out our infrastructure.
Before Amazon made any changes Apple was leading the way. Of course plenty of people like the new font but then again there are an awful lot of guides on how to how to make the fonts more readable in IOS and El Capitan.