Here’s a couple of other reports of suspicious justification to lower Apple trade-in values. My concern isn’t the $250 I lost in trading in a five-year-old phone, it’s the loss of trust with Apple’s trade-in process.
The Verge from 2021: https://www.theverge.com/22368541/apple-trade-in-phobio-macbook-white-spots
Reddit thread from 2022: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/snr3tw/beware_apple_tradein/
Apple lowered the trade-in value of iPhone 11 Pro to $0, claiming that the port doesn’t work due to a broken pin. This is the same port I used to transfer data to my new iPhone 15 Pro just prior to shipping the trade-in. I asked the rep if there was anything I could have done to prove the phone functioned prior to shipping. They didn’t have an answer. I don’t know for sure there is foul play, but I do know that I shipped a phone with a working port and that the lack of recourse is problematic.
The Apple Watch remains a really nice digital watch in my mind, because it’s much more about utility than fashion or intrinsic value. That said, it dresses up well. I love the look of my stainless steel Series 6 with the my new California Poppy leather band.
USB labeling is hard.
The volume of the usually helpful human I am trying to communicate with: 1
The volume of the hold music: 8
The volume of the of robot voice interrupting the already loud hold music: 11
Here’s a shortcut I wrote that converts TSV to a Markdown table. It doesn’t do any of the fancy alignment stuff, but it does try to make the resulting table look decent via proper padding. Also, it doesn’t use any Mac specific scripting or third party shortcuts so it should work out of the box across Apple’s platforms.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/edc32594a7f7476aba76f32de7176988
Fellow Austinites, I did not know the universe was waiting for my wife and I to curb unneeded furniture to deliver much needed rain.
Deepest apologies.
I am glad Caitlin Gibson is highlighting social media’s “keeping up with the Joneses” problem, especially when it comes to parenting, but I can’t help but wonder if opening with a profile about a mother coping with medical difficulties undercut her message. Unrealistic “Instagram expectations” isn’t just a problem limited to parents with difficult circumstances. It’s a problem that can make any parent feel inadequate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/08/28/millennial-moms-perfection/
I absolutely loved @viticci‘s account of using a Surface Pro for 6 months. It’s a perfect summary of Windows’s overall strengths and weaknesses, as well as its very real trade-offs as a tablet OS. My desktop PC has become a general purpose truck that’s been great for gaming and Plex. That said, I still prefer Apple’s OSes to Windows. Finally, and I suspect Federico will agree, Windows ironically looks best on an Apple Studio Display.
This is like framing a bank robbery as a dispute over money.
