Nasty for those affected. 

And if you've been paying attention, the reaction to NSA and other acronyms causing damage to the US tech industry just hit the news this week. Apparently, the FBI are upset with Apple and Google for introducing new privacy features that put their users above the law. This is, of course, the national propaganda engine at full work. Your information is not safe, and will never be safe, using their devices (they are however perfectly fine to use if you keep that in mind).

The purpose of the debate now taking place is to give the user the false illusion that your data can be safe, if you just trust the big names in the tech industry.

Clearly, you must be getting pretty damn sleepy to believe such a bold-faced lie.

ios 8 has been troublesome for me. Keyboard issues. Gestures not working. My iPad hesitating. This was released in poor condition. I don't think Steve Jobs would have let this pass.

Your response is quite tame compared to many I've read.  While some IOS 8 features have been accepted as okay, the majority of responses I've seen thus far have been quite angered, to say the least.  If it were my OS and my company, I'd be worried.

I've read that bugs in iOS 8 and the update keep popping up. Apple even admitted that its iOS 8 was a disaster. I think what it is is that Apple rushed its newbie too soon because of Android and the like. If you see the competition coming out with really good stuff then common sense, to me anyway, says make damn sure yours does what its supposed to do from soup to nuts BEFORE releasing it to the public. 

Nine cases...no pun intended.

What has me worried more is Foxconn, benzene usage in the factory and leukemia cases popping up.

First they needed safety nets (literally). Now, chemotherapy.

Yecchynomics.     

Time for ios 10!

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/1/6880089/this-bent-iphone-6-poster-is-perfect 

Oh well, one less piece of crap to saturate an overcrowded market.

Still, gone or not, the quality of Apple products has nevertheless taken a nosedive and bendy phones has damaged its image.

Now the question remains if Apple will deliberately manufacture and release bent phones because all the 'bent' fanbois all want one.

Who knows, Apple could even be following Samsung's lead.  While Samsung has curved TV screens, Apple introduces the curved phone and later avoids a patent infringement suit for its curved TVs because it already uses 'curved technology'.

So yeah, this bendy phone thing could be Apple's backdoor into curved TVs.  Sneaky bastards!

I think it was the Jews.

In fact, I think they passed a law against it..

Oh wait, wasn't that foreskin? 

I know people who will stick by apple anything, just like I've only had Samsung phones, 5 now, and they all still work.

If only it were just a handful f bendy phones because some fanbois believe body-hugging jeans impress the lasses.  No, it's much more than that, including the OS going guts up on many, many users whose devices got bricked.  Then there's the fact that Apple is only now releasing the iPhone 8 with hardware standards that were present in the Nokia Lumia 920 2 - 3 years ago.

Yup, the days of ithis and ithat are numbered.  True, millions of units have been sold with tis new release, but there's still that many fanbois around to buy them.  However, with IOS 8 left wanting and hardware failing to meet expectations, many of those fanbois won't be in the familiar queues next time around.

Other manufacturers have reliable, more innovative units, and they are more than competitive, so Apple will need to lift its game considerably if it hopes to remain a market force.  However, without the vision of Steve Jobs, I very much doubt it can.