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"Can you name any electronics manufacturer of apple's stature that does not have some issues?

Apple doesn't have just "some" issues -- Apple has constant, chronic design/engineering mishaps.

The total number of all such serious design/engineering problems for the past decade from all of the other major electronics manufacturers combined is less than the number of Apple blunders on the above list. And that list is not exhaustive nor does it include any of Apples GUI problems.
I would not call Apple worse than others, but what really annoys me is their we try to weasel out mentality until they get either a class action lawsuit on their neck or bad press coverage.
The classical example of this is the Macbook Air, a bugridden overpriced piece of solid overheating garbage. There never was a recall and to the worse two additional series with the same heating problems as the first one. Why was this never fixed:

a) First because it is broken by design
b) Because the air was a nieche product only used by a subset of people so the shit never hit the fan so seriously that Apple ever would do something to rectify the problem

Too bad if you shelled out 2500 dollars for the initial piece of aluminium then you basically were screwed because the symtoms usually did show up later than the usual 30 days grace period.

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