Is Something Rotten at Apple? (Long)
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E-mail problems, flaky iPhones, and broken Macs. What's Steve Jobs to do?
By Farhad Manjoo
Posted Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, at 5:40 PM ET
Steve Jobs
In its ubiquitous TV ads, Apple claims that its new iPhone is twice as fast as the original version and just half the price. Neither is true. The half-price fib has been obvious for some time: When you add the price of AT&T's required two-year contract, the new phone costs slightly more than the old phone. In a lawsuit filed last week, an iPhone owner named Jessica Alena Smith argues that Apple hasn't been honest about the phone's speed, either. Smith, echoing thousands of complaints logged on Apple's Web site, says that her iPhone...
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E-mail problems, flaky iPhones, and broken Macs. What's Steve Jobs to do?
By Farhad Manjoo
Posted Monday, Aug. 25, 2008, at 5:40 PM ET
Steve Jobs
In its ubiquitous TV ads, Apple claims that its new iPhone is twice as fast as the original version and just half the price. Neither is true. The half-price fib has been obvious for some time: When you add the price of AT&T's required two-year contract, the new phone costs slightly more than the old phone. In a lawsuit filed last week, an iPhone owner named Jessica Alena Smith argues that Apple hasn't been honest about the phone's speed, either. Smith, echoing thousands of complaints logged on Apple's Web site, says that her iPhone...
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