No kill switches? :(

The most annoying part about these MacBook Pro batteries is that, when you take them to the Apple Store, these monkeys don't believe that there could possibly be anything wrong with their precious Apple computers and that it's all the owner's fault.

I went in there a few weeks ago because my battery was holding a charge for 10 minutes (mind you that I had gotten this battery as a within-warranty replacement because my old one did the same thing). The first thing they do is put their hand on their hip and ask accusingly,"WELL DO YOU HAVE APPLE CARE?!" as if not having Apple Care is the source of the problem. I say no, that I got the battery as a free replacement for another defective battery, and the guy goes, "well, if that's the case, then it doesn't even matter if the battery is defective. We're not replacing it."

Apparently, when you get a new battery, your warranty for the old battery is transferred over to the new battery (so, if your battery dies after one year, you're basically shit out of luck and have to hope for the best for your new battery). I asked him to check to see if the battery was even the issue, and he loads up that USB program that they have, and, of course, it shows a big red box that says "DEFECTIVE. REPLACE BATTERY." He then was like, "yeah, you'd totally get a new battery if this were under warranty." Asshole. Keep in mind that this happened less than a year after I got this new battery, so it WOULD HAVE been under warranty had the shady warranty-transfer policy not been in effect.

Sorry about the rant, I just get pissed when a company is allowed to push clearly-inferior products to their customers and then we're all supposed to just deal with it.

Oops I had this window opened from last night and didn't refresh the page. You answered my question above. Apologies!

What on earth could you POSSIBLY need 6 tuners for?

Bockcara/Chris

And what about the 33 percent of Americans who rent, and therefore would never pay for something like this?

So... where in these commercials does it set HTC phones apart from other phones? All I got out of the commercial was that the phone "gets" me, that it plays music, takes calls, has maps (maybe GPS; doesn't say for sure), and that it has a calendar in it. Sounds like pretty much every non-dumb phone available in 2009.

Sorry if my comment sounds harsh; I just wish that features were what set phones apart from each other rather than advertising.

Oh my bad, dyslexia ftw, I thought you said "This isn't from House."

Anyway, @holy_moly112, yes, my post is based around the 5 stages of grief, also known as the Kübler-Ross model. Glad you caught the allusion.

Who said anything about House?

Here's how the Apple support threads always go with these type of problems (from the perspective of a Moderator)

Stage 1: Denial. "No problems on my end! Thread closed."
Stage 2: Anger. "Why would you even enable your Guest account anyway?! It was obviously only there for Windoze users used to having one! Thread closed."
Stage 3: Bargaining. "You have posted a duplicate thread that was previously deleted. Should you post about this topic again, your account will be banned. Thread closed."
Stage 4: Depression. "It's sad that there are so many idiots using Apple computers nowadays."
Stage 5: Acceptance. "Wow, with over 100 threads about this, maybe it is a problem after all. Has anyone heard from Apple about this?"

3 Weeks Later: "Still no response from Apple?"

From my understanding, the ESRB was formed only because there was a desire for a consistent cross-platform rating system. The FCC certainly pushed for this (along with a few legislators), but the board is independent and isn't a government organization. The reason why virtually all games are rated is that every major brick and mortar software outlet requires an ESRB rating for games. This is why the App Store can get by without them. Apple uses their own rating system, bypassing the ESRB nonsense altogether.

In essence, Sony has revealed a benefit to the App Store that most developers took for granted. Other articles mentioning the cost of ESRB ratings have spun the story to say that Apple will eventually be pressured into using ESRB's ratings, but I doubt this will happen. There's no way Apple would let another company skim off of their profits so easily, especially if there's no law to force it to happen. And, as much as people demonize the App Store, $99 to start up a business is dirt cheap. I'm pretty sure Apple is happy to keep it that way.