Re: Tim Cook just literally said his customer is unfathomably stupid!

From	Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.ipad, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Tim Cook just literally said his customer is unfathomably stupid!
Date	2019-01-09 16:01 -0800
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 2019-01-09 3:58 p.m., arlen holder wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:41:34 -0800, Alan Baker wrote:
> 
>> No. He really didn't.
> 
> Oh, it gets even better, Alan Baker.
> Tim Cook later said, at time point 411 seconds, that the customer is,
> literally, too stupid to do something themselves which is as simple as
> transferring their data from their old phone to their new phone.

Quote it... ...accurately.

> 
> Remember Alan Baker - unlike you Apple Apologists...
> o I'm not incredibly stupid (I'm of at least average intelligence), and,
> o I only speak facts (well verified, easily validated, well cited facts).
> 
> To wit...
>    <https://youtu.be/qvR3PEPqX9A?t=411>
> 
> Tim Cook:
> "We are also putting a lot of focus on the service side. Our stores are
> unbelievable at service. People are very worried about transferring their
> data. They're very worried that with this new phone there will be something
> they lost in that process .So we're putting a lot of emphasis on doing that
> and doing that well."

People are worried about that; ordinary people worry about that all the 
time.

> 
>   Note that this discussion is about the "revenue shortfall", so, keeping
> that in context, it "appears" he is intimating he will CHARGE the customer
> to move their data for them from the old phone to the new phone.

No. It does '"appear"' that way at all.

> 
> Maybe he isn't going to CHARGE them (but he was talking in terms of
> services shortfall amelioration) ... but even so, look at his words:
> o *People are _very worried_ about transferring their data*
> o *They're _very worried_ ... there will be something they lost *

You're just making things up.

> 
> Holy Shit.
> *Is Tim Cook really saying about his customer what he just said (twice!)*?
> 
> Jesus Christ.
> How freaking hard it is to "transfer their data" anyway?

Too hard for lots of people...

...that's just a fact.

> 
> *He twce implied that the Apple customer is _unfathomably_ stupid*.

Nope. You need to learn the difference between "imply" and "infer".

> 
> QUESTION:
> Q: How incredibly _stupid_ does Tim Cook think his customer is?
> They are "_very worried_" about something _that_ freaking simple?
> 
> It's ungodly how evident it is that Tim Cook thinks the customer is
> almost unconceivably unfathomably incredibly STUPID!
> 
> What do _you_ make of that statement that Tim Cook just said when
> discussing how Apple was going to solve services revenue shortfalls?
> 
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