Is this person someone well known? I'm asking because AFAICT the blog author appears to be completely anonymous, and the blog post is incredibly light on details, so it's hard to give what's being...
Is this person someone well known? I'm asking because AFAICT the blog author appears to be completely anonymous, and the blog post is incredibly light on details, so it's hard to give what's being claimed much credence without some sort of authorial credibility or evidence. I don't doubt that what the author claims happened is possible, but I would like a bit more to go on than what little is being provided here.
I didn’t get the feeling they were terribly well known just based off the fact they said they were going to reach out to their contacts at Apple, but didn’t have any. But then of course, for Tim’s...
I didn’t get the feeling they were terribly well known just based off the fact they said they were going to reach out to their contacts at Apple, but didn’t have any. But then of course, for Tim’s executive team to have taken notice and helped out either means they were extremely lucky, or had a recognizable name.
Isn't that kind of the purpose of a blog though? That any random person can post bout their lives with any degree of anonomization that they choose. I've certainly had worse customer experiences...
Isn't that kind of the purpose of a blog though? That any random person can post bout their lives with any degree of anonomization that they choose.
I've certainly had worse customer experiences than described here. I also know this is not the first time we've heard a verified case of 'have to involve executives to resolve minor issue' from companies.
Apple is no different from any other tech company except for branding.
Sure, any random person can write a blog... but that doesn't mean when a person decides they are going to do so but stay completely anonymous, and they then write about a problem they supposedly...
Sure, any random person can write a blog... but that doesn't mean when a person decides they are going to do so but stay completely anonymous, and they then write about a problem they supposedly encountered with a major corporation, that I am going to believe them without any evidence. Hence my comment.
If this really did happen, and they were really in communication with the executive team, why not at least provide some screenshots of all that to prove it? That would have taken a trivial amount of effort, and yet they apparently couldn't even be bothered to do that. So why should I take what they have said at face value, and give them the benefit of the doubt here?
I think that's just the deal with anonymous accounts. If they don't prove it really happened, we don't necessarily have to believe them. (Screenshots could be faked, too, though it does guard...
I think that's just the deal with anonymous accounts. If they don't prove it really happened, we don't necessarily have to believe them. (Screenshots could be faked, too, though it does guard against some kinds of biased storytelling.)
Isn't this the same deal that everyone has on Tildes? We should be comfortable with it.
I think their account is entirely plausible, similar to things that have happened with other large companies when people get on the wrong side of their anti-fraud system. (It can even happen to sophisticated professionals.) But sure, it could be made up.
I totally understand someone wanting to remain anonymous. But what I don't understand is why anyone would take a completely anonymous account of events such as this at face value, with absolutely...
I totally understand someone wanting to remain anonymous. But what I don't understand is why anyone would take a completely anonymous account of events such as this at face value, with absolutely no evidence whatsoever to back it up. Especially when, if true, that evidence would have required very little effort to provide.
And without any evidence, this post reads to me like baseless (<---keyword) outrage bait, which I am frankly sick and goddamn tired of seeing on every social media site, and disappointed to see here too... since part of the reason I left Reddit and HN was to get away from shit like this. /rant
Someone posted it, but it hasn't sparked much of the usual anti-tech company outrage we see elsewhere, so I'm not sure we've taken the bait? We probably didn't have that discussion in part due to...
Someone posted it, but it hasn't sparked much of the usual anti-tech company outrage we see elsewhere, so I'm not sure we've taken the bait?
We probably didn't have that discussion in part due to your warning. So, good warning!
Thanks. And FYI, the reason I wrote the warning is because I actually did see this posted to HN (which I do still visit on occasion), and the response there was entirely predictable, so I was...
Thanks. And FYI, the reason I wrote the warning is because I actually did see this posted to HN (which I do still visit on occasion), and the response there was entirely predictable, so I was hoping I could head it off at the pass here. ;)
Reminds me of the shit that Terraria's lead developer went through with Google. Demilogic's only recourse was to scorch the earth around him, cancel the Stadia port of Terraria in very public...
Is this person someone well known? I'm asking because AFAICT the blog author appears to be completely anonymous, and the blog post is incredibly light on details, so it's hard to give what's being claimed much credence without some sort of authorial credibility or evidence. I don't doubt that what the author claims happened is possible, but I would like a bit more to go on than what little is being provided here.
I didn’t get the feeling they were terribly well known just based off the fact they said they were going to reach out to their contacts at Apple, but didn’t have any. But then of course, for Tim’s executive team to have taken notice and helped out either means they were extremely lucky, or had a recognizable name.
Isn't that kind of the purpose of a blog though? That any random person can post bout their lives with any degree of anonomization that they choose.
I've certainly had worse customer experiences than described here. I also know this is not the first time we've heard a verified case of 'have to involve executives to resolve minor issue' from companies.
Apple is no different from any other tech company except for branding.
Sure, any random person can write a blog... but that doesn't mean when a person decides they are going to do so but stay completely anonymous, and they then write about a problem they supposedly encountered with a major corporation, that I am going to believe them without any evidence. Hence my comment.
If this really did happen, and they were really in communication with the executive team, why not at least provide some screenshots of all that to prove it? That would have taken a trivial amount of effort, and yet they apparently couldn't even be bothered to do that. So why should I take what they have said at face value, and give them the benefit of the doubt here?
I think that's just the deal with anonymous accounts. If they don't prove it really happened, we don't necessarily have to believe them. (Screenshots could be faked, too, though it does guard against some kinds of biased storytelling.)
Isn't this the same deal that everyone has on Tildes? We should be comfortable with it.
I think their account is entirely plausible, similar to things that have happened with other large companies when people get on the wrong side of their anti-fraud system. (It can even happen to sophisticated professionals.) But sure, it could be made up.
I totally understand someone wanting to remain anonymous. But what I don't understand is why anyone would take a completely anonymous account of events such as this at face value, with absolutely no evidence whatsoever to back it up. Especially when, if true, that evidence would have required very little effort to provide.
And without any evidence, this post reads to me like baseless (<---keyword) outrage bait, which I am frankly sick and goddamn tired of seeing on every social media site, and disappointed to see here too... since part of the reason I left Reddit and HN was to get away from shit like this. /rant
Someone posted it, but it hasn't sparked much of the usual anti-tech company outrage we see elsewhere, so I'm not sure we've taken the bait?
We probably didn't have that discussion in part due to your warning. So, good warning!
Thanks. And FYI, the reason I wrote the warning is because I actually did see this posted to HN (which I do still visit on occasion), and the response there was entirely predictable, so I was hoping I could head it off at the pass here. ;)
Well, branding and vertical integration
Reminds me of the shit that Terraria's lead developer went through with Google. Demilogic's only recourse was to scorch the earth around him, cancel the Stadia port of Terraria in very public fashion and pray for the backlash & negative publicity to reach somebody at Google.
Of course, if you aren't the head of a hit indie games company and don't have internal contacts at a tech giant, you're shit outta luck.
This is why we need consumer protection laws.