Apple Returns Millions of Defective iPhone 5 Smartphones

[gggplaya]

This is what apple gets for it's greedy high margin top end product made from the cheapest manufacturer it could find.
Apple fanboys, haha you're buying junk.

 

[Non-Euclidean]

Chinese quality strikes again! How many were returned for lead paint content?

 

[sundragon]

Gotta' love the complete bias here. Here's how it goes:
1) Apple chooses to outsource manufacturing
2) Apple picks lowest price supplier
3) Apple gets the 'quality' it pays for
4) Apple wants gold quality at tin prices
5) Foxconn will tell Apple to CTS, since Apple chose to be beholden to them
6) Apple will blame, sue, etc.
7) Apple won't realize they're shooting themselves in the foot until it's too late.

Love the Droidrage here is twisting reality - Are you the next Steve Jobs?
What you are failing to state is that this an agreement between Foxconn and Apple, no one is suing, no one is blaming, the return of the phones is an automatic process - If they don't meet the quality, they are returned.

P.S. Foxconn makes quite a few of the electronics you so dearly love 😉

Sent from my Nexus 7

 

[sundragon]

This is what apple gets for it's greedy high margin top end product made from the cheapest manufacturer it could find.
Apple fanboys, haha you're buying junk.

Now for the ugly reality:

Haha, iPhone 4, never had an issue with it - until I broke the glass - Apple replaced it, kindly and I sold it for $275 after 2 years of reliable service...

iPhone 5, no issues, since I got it on day one...

Nexus 7 (I still love you, even though you've got warts) replaced 3x for faulty antenna and screen separation. Wifi, screen flicker, and Bluetooth issues from 4.1.x to 4.2.2 made the tablet unusable in anything but a dark room and forget about streaming music.

I'm on this list of people explaining the issue to Google, no response which was very Apple like...

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39633&can=1&q=sfarkhan&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars

They fixed it finally after a zillion updates in 4.2.2 - I bought it in August, the final fix came in February, that's about 6 months of pain. I am grateful that Google is honoring their warranty on the screen separation. I hope the Nexus 7^2 doesn't have as many issues - I'll wait a few months and scan code.google.com to see if it's worth investing my time in another Android product or go back to Apple.

Do you even own an Apple product to make accusations and insult people or are you talking out of your ass?

Sent from my Nexus 7

 

[baoson]

@sundragon
Nice try for comparing a $200 tablet to a $700-800 smart phone if you buy it outright!
Apple users' popular quote is "it just works!". Well, guess what? those very same users never stop bugging me from fixing their Macbook Pro/Mac Pro to run professional software from Adobe, Autodesk, Avid..etc. When Apple stuffs work, "it just works". However, they forgot to mention all the other times, when no matter what they try, Apple stuffs just don't want to work...because that is the way Apple wants.
I just laugh when my $2000 Dell M4700 run circle around my co-worker $3700 decked out rMBP every time we were working with Adobe CS6. Most people think the Macbook Pro is the best notebook, and they never heard about the HP Elitebook, Dell Precision notebook or the Lenovo's W series...like always, they are clueless.
When doing comparison, it would be nice to compare similar class/price range items!

 

[baoson]

@sundragon
Nice try for comparing a $200 tablet to a $700-800 smart phone if you buy it outright!
Apple users' popular quote is "it just works!". Well, guess what? those very same users never stop bugging me from fixing their Macbook Pro/Mac Pro to run professional software from Adobe, Autodesk, Avid..etc. When Apple stuffs work, "it just works". However, they forgot to mention all the other times, when no matter what they try, Apple stuffs just don't want to work...because that is the way Apple wants.
I just laugh when my $2000 Dell M4700 run circle around my co-worker $3700 decked out rMBP every time we were working with Adobe CS6. Most people think the Macbook Pro is the best notebook, and they never heard about the HP Elitebook, Dell Precision notebook or the Lenovo's W series...like always, they are clueless.
When doing comparison, it would be nice to compare similar class/price range items!

 

[sturmgrenadier]

"Foxconn is losing around 1.6 billion Yaun ($257 million USD)".
What is 'Yaun' man? it's 'Yuan'

 

[ven1ger]

"the fact that Foxconn has recently declared its worst revenue statistics in over ten years"
What are you smoking? Foxconn had NT $100B ($3.6B USD) in profits last year, which is a record HIGH.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57576228-37/apple-supplier-foxconn-has-record-profit/

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/financials.asp?ticker=2354:TT

There is a difference between revenues and profit. The above link I provided shows that since 2009, Foxconn had flat revenues but net profits did rise because of cost of goods. Please remember that Foxconn is a multinational company, in that they have factories in a lot of other countries, not just China, and some of their profits may be attributable to Apple, but their profit will probably be heading south due to the returns they will have to pay for, but that probably wouldn't be shown until the 2013 financial statements get posted.

I think this is a problem that Apple will be facing in the future with part suppliers that are not mostly from Samsung. They will be moving from a major part supplier to smaller less proven manufactures that will affect the quality of their units. Foxconn quality is usually exceptional, it is a possibility that a lot of the problems could be coming from other substandard parts from lesser manufacturers.

 

[2meetakshay]

Itz a piece of bull shit with the only DUAL-CORE, WITH SMALL SCREEN SIZE, WORST BATTERY BACKUP, LARGER APPS SIZE IN I OS, VERY VERY EXPENSIVE

buyers want better go for an HTC one/Samsung galaxy S IV