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Sascha Vongehr:

Now it is not exactly news that Apple products are overpriced and of relatively low quality…

To prove his point he shows an iPhone 4S being dropped from shoulder height. I think the writer must have been dropped on his head from shoulder height.

Talking about Siri, Vongehr again shows how moronic he can be.

Customer: “Where do babies come from?” Instead of perhaps answering “sorry, I do not understand this question”, which is likely what happened in this case, Siri suggests two JCPenny Stores. You get the gist – this is nothing but aimed advertising wherever possible.


  • Anonymous

    I won’t even bother to click on the link. There are enough idiots on the web, and everywhere else, where I don’t need to give them my attention or page hits. 

    • His Shadow

      Yes. That’s apparently my job. :) Although he loves my attention so much he’s taken to deleting comments.

  • Anonymous

    For people with vision and imagination, it’s annoying listening to the rants of those who don’t. However, keep in mind we do need these  drudges to do the shit we wouldn’t touch.

  • http://www.popwuping.com/ Clark

    Why give them page views? It’s the sole reason the article exists in the first place. 

  • Anonymous

    I came here to say what the previous commenters said.  I wish I could’ve seen what the idiot posted without giving him the pageview advertising revenue.  Maybe you should provide an alert to reconsider clicking lest one wants to financially support this idiot.

  • http://twitter.com/pberry Patrick Berry

    Now, since it’s “Science 2.0″ I’m sure this was a controlled experiment where there were multiple brands of phones dropped from a multitude of heights and…wait, never mind.

  • Mike

    “Low Quality”? 
    Really?
    Maybe he’s holding a Blackberry painted to look like an iPhone?
    Idiot!

  • His Shadow

    It’s also pretty sad that other supposedly smart people are defending Sascha from “fanboys” who point out his article is shit, based as it is on mindless repetition of sad anti-Apple tropes.

  • His Shadow

    Awwww. Looks like comments are closed. This must be the “New Science”. Posts something stupid, then run away when challenged.

    Wait. That’s how Creationism works.

  • Stumblebum

    Sascha Vongehr is a bright guy, he holds a PhD for his work on Helium-cluster experiments and on statistics of nontrivial cluster size distributions.

    He has traveled extensively and gained further internationally recognized degrees in theoretical and string theory disciplines. We cannot say that this guy does not know his physics.

    We can, however, say that he does not know his arse from his elbow.

    He does not understand the design process from concept to prototype to final product.

    Sascha lives in the world of ‘concept’ where an idea is born and manufactured in the blink of an eye. Reality is rather different.

    Its always the same … someone finds a flaw, Apple (because Apple dont comment) take more than a week or two to respond. Blogs and Halfwits, and fucktards respond within minutes that Apple does not care.

    Apple choose to look at things internally, they don’t suffer from the corporate tourettes that Microsoft does.

  • Anonymous

    Ofcourse, germans who write such articles and people in white cowboy hats that defend said idiots, are not to be trusted. The whole article makes it very clear that the writer is stupid, possibly drunk when writing this, and that he has some puppy-loyal-followers, who worry about depression in neutered cats. I had a laugh tho!

    ps: science-two-point-o? really?

    • His Shadow

      I actually understand what his underlying point is, but it’s couched in facile complaints about Apple, it’s products and it’s customers. 

      If Sascha has a problem with the way that technology does not address underlying concerns regarding the blurring of information from entertainment from advertising, that’s the seed of a good article. But he’s chosen to go the Greenpeace route and garner interest by attacking Apple..

      Well, actually, that might not be true. Given the vigorous defense from others on that blog it’s clear he wrote to appeal to these “elitists” who are unaware of their mundane hipster mentality, where they are _so_ tuned in to the Universe, people who buy Apple products are muggles unaware they are being duped. Heaven forbid that consumers get added value of the well designed premium hardware they’ve chosen to buy. All hardware is identical and Apple just gouges! If Sascha has a point, it’s lost in the morass of ass backwards commentary regarding Apple, as if Apple itself was the sole reason people don’t eat well, aren’t politically engaged, or whatever societal ill that nearly always gets laid at the feet of whatever technology is popular.

      And then there is that twat blithering about Jobs’ “social and legal” crimes or some such crap. That guy’s just an asshole.

      • http://twitter.com/markrlangston Mark Langston

        A better collection of words regarding the state of Apple products I cannot find.

        This sums up the entirety of the non-Apple fan, which not too dissimilar from love, is overtly blinded by their obsessive rage over Apple products and their so-called elitist moniker set upon the people that buy them. 

        Not worthy of a challenge, you won’t find another tech company that elicits such love and simultaneous vitriol towards their products and users. And yet, every tech company in the known universe is chasing after Apple’s success.

  • http://twitter.com/dfbutt David Butt

    I understood Siri to be *Artificial* Intelligence. I expect real intelligence to be applied by the user. Apparently I expected too much!

    Siri is oft described as a ‘Personal Assistant’, not Delphi. A Personal Assistant usually would not make value judgements, thus asking one’s Butler: “What should I eat?” should net a similar response as from Siri – “What ever you wish, Sir (or Madam)”

    • His Shadow

      And let’s be real. If Siri *did* tell you _what_ you should be eating and not where, it would also fit into the bloggers Big Brother paranoia and be held up as an example of Apple’s corporate fascism. For writiers as ignorant of Apple as Sascha is, there is no approach Apple could use that wouldn’t be molded to fit into the writer’s anti-Apple viewpoint.

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