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[sevenlayermuddle]

[asbokid]

Look on the bright side: Apple stock is up 72.47% since January alone.  Due in no small to part to those shoddy keyboards!

cheers, a

[kitz]

[kitz]

[Ronski]

This is one of the reasons why Apple is the richest business in the world with around $100 billion cash in the bank, that's cash not assets,  because they rip everybody off along the way.

Glueing a keyboard together is going to be cheaper than screwing it, and when it breaks because of the low quality cheap cable, they can sell you another.

[Black Sheep]

I think the key is to take greater care with ones personal possessions. Being Apples current biggest fan  I can understand the outcry at the pricing, but surely the company cannot be held responsible for personal mis-use, however unintended that may be ?

I shall now don my 'Incoming hat'. 

[sevenlayermuddle]

Interesting comments.

I've commented before that enterring into an Apple retail store make me feel a bit like poking my head around the door of some weird religious cult.   Sounds like BS may be aspiring to high Priest? 

I'm not anti-Apple mind you, I think everybody who enjoys the 'gadget' culture owes them a big vote of thanks.  I seriously doubt whether other smartphones would be nearly as good if they hadn't had an iPhone to copy.   Same for tablets and the iPad.   And the cheap MP3 players that so many teenagers take for granted must owe something to whoever invented the iPod.   

I just wish they would be more accepting of the idea that people expect to be able to upgrade/repair their own PC's, and replace batteries in phones, etc!

[kitz]

[kitz]

 

[sevenlayermuddle]

 

[burakkucat]

   I can appreciate the humour but, to me, that is misuse of a perfectly good Dell Laptop (I believe) and an apple. 

[asbokid]

Looks like a French Golden Delicious to me.. so not really fit for human consumption any way!

[sevenlayermuddle]

My new solderable USB plug arrived today, so I set about the permanent repair, such that the keyboard will just have a very short stub of cable, connected to the PC with a USB extension cable 'option' that Apple kindly supplied when I bought the keyboard'

But, once again, No 

I'd neven noticed before, but the original USB plug on the keyboard has a notch cut into it.  And the female on the USB extension has a ridge that engages in that notch.  For some reason, Apple wanted to ensure that the USB extension cable is used only for the keyboard, and nothing else, so they  used modified USB connectors.  And since the USB plug I've bought is a standard connector with no notch, I can't use the Apple extension cable. 

OK, standard USB extension cables are cheap enough, I'll buy one.  Or maybe I'll file a notch in the plug so it fits.  But it's always just so darned difficult to do anything at all, when it comes to Apple hardware!