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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2006Apple...the builder of Junk!!
As I receive and delploy shipments of Apple G5's and notice the numbers of failed equipment, I can roughly calculate that with Apple, their failure rate of 10% is OK...nominal....skoal, baby! They have no shame in what they foist on the public anymore. Now that they offloaded their manufacturing to China, with lower costs, who cares? The stockholders are happy....that's all that matters! Bob R. > As I receive and delploy shipments of Apple G5's and notice the numbers > of failed equipment, I can roughly calculate that with Apple, their > failure rate of 10% is OK...nominal....skoal, baby! They have no shame > in what they foist on the public anymore. Now that they offloaded their > manufacturing to China, with lower costs, who cares? The stockholders > are happy....that's all that matters! Bob R. As with any publicly-traded corporation in the US, that last sentence is essentially true and essentially required behavior. If the failure rates were negatively impacting stockholder value, Apple would be working to address them. But Apple's failure rates easily among the lowest in the industry - MUCH better for desktops and also tops for portables - so there's no particular reason for an investor to be unhappy about it.  SignatureGoal 2005: Convincing James Hetfield to cover the Strawberry Shortcake "Are You Berry Berry Happy?" song. Let me explain: In 1999, we unboxed and deployed 16 Mac G4/400's. All are still running fine. None had problems. The only thing I've had to do is replace a few mainboard batteries. In 2003 we unboxed and deployed 8 Mac G4 Mirror Door units. One was bad out of the box and had to be replaced. In 2005: One set of 8 G5's unboxed and all ran ok. One set of 10 G5's unboxed and one bad out of the box. Needs to be replaced. One set of 5 unboxed and one bad out of the box. What is really annoying about this is, Apple is too stingy to take our bad units back, even though it is defective out of the box. The way my company's supply chain works, they order a set of macs from a national vendor who sends us the macs. So, the macs are "owned" by someone more than 30 days and thus out of the lemon-return warranty. Even though it is a bad unit when first opened. Bob R. > The way my company's supply chain works, > they order a set of macs from a national vendor who sends us the macs. > So, the macs are "owned" by someone more than 30 days and thus out of > the lemon-return warranty. Even though it is a bad unit when first > opened. Sounds like your company needs to deal with the national vendor on a lemon return policy. SignatureLife. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. -- Dr. Who > Let me explain: No, let me explain. Apple is a publicly-traded corporation based in the United States of America. As such, their primary responsibility is to make a good faith attempt to protect and increase shareholder value. The failure rates of Apple hardware are among the lowest in the industry. Not merely better than average but consistently among the best. Reducing failure rates is not free. It costs money directly, as well as time and other resources. Improving a category in which you're already tops is not an efficient means of meeting their fiduciary responsibility. Focusing on areas in which they lag, or at least are in danger of lagging, is likely to be a better application of available resources. G SignatureGoal 2005: Convincing James Hetfield to cover the Strawberry Shortcake "Are You Berry Berry Happy?" song. In other words, the product does not matter....only the shareholder returns! Not that I care about how much more money they want to accumulate....it just makes me more willing to explore the Windows world as an alternative to Apple, for desktop publishing needs. Bob R. "inyo55" wrote: >In other words, the product does not matter....only the shareholder >returns! Not that I care about how much more money they want to >accumulate....it just makes me more willing to explore the Windows >world as an alternative to Apple, for desktop publishing needs. Bob >R. Product does matter and so do the shareholders. I think Apple does well in both areas. Why is its’ Apples fault that your purchasing Department chooses to go through a middleman for their equipement. If the company you buy the computer from won’t stand behind the product why should you expect apple to eat the cost. I think if you do any research that most of the time ( even with windows equipment ) if you go through a middleman different rules apply when returning for warranty repair. I always checked the return policy for equipment I purchased for my company. Steve SignaturePosted using the http://www.macforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.macforumz.com/Apple-builder-Junk-ftopict162308.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.macforumz.com/eform.php?p=637880 > In other words, the product does not matter....only the shareholder > returns! Pretty much, yes. That's what you said in your first post, and I started of my response by agreeing with it. > Not that I care about how much more money they want to > accumulate....it just makes me more willing to explore the Windows > world as an alternative to Apple, for desktop publishing needs. Bob R. With higher failure rates and higher long-term expenses when the machines do work? SignatureGoal 2005: Convincing James Hetfield to cover the Strawberry Shortcake "Are You Berry Berry Happy?" song. > As I receive and delploy shipments of Apple G5's and notice the numbers > of failed equipment, I can roughly calculate that with Apple, their > failure rate of 10% is OK...nominal....skoal, baby! They have no shame > in what they foist on the public anymore. Now that they offloaded their > manufacturing to China, with lower costs, who cares? The stockholders > are happy....that's all that matters! Bob R. Finally, an _accurate_ report of MTBF for Apple hardware directly from a dependable source. Now we can all sleep better. This Bob R. fellow has saved us all a lot of misery. Obviously, we should just give up and buy a Dell. Surely those must be fine, because Jack F. over at bigdaddy634@hotmail.com reports that their failure rate is a _negative_ 2%! I'm convinced! |
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