(December 17, 2015 at 8:05 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(December 17, 2015 at 11:22 am)Brian37 Wrote: It is gone, even without the dust i really used it night and day far more than the average person. For what I paid for it it was pennies a day for the time I had it. it simply wore out.
I am more concerned with having to return this new one. i am very pissed I cant use Skype on it. I am worried about getting anything with windows on it not pleased with the 10 reviews. I had a nightmare with a Vista tower that gave me the blue screen of death right from the start.
This Chromebook is an open source OS. Everything works great and it is fast, but no Skype outside of chat, even the official Skype website said it only allows for chat on Chromebook.
I need the Skype because I have a friend in Australia who is in a hospital rehab recovering from a a stroke and that is what he has and I am not about to expect him to downoad something else. And it makes me sick that the market competition isn't based on pleasing the customer, but a result of assholes in the boardrooms of Microfuck, Chrome and Skype.
I don't think it's a conspiracy in this case. You have a non-standard operating system, and Skype doesn't run on it. Not really anybody's fault, as none of the parties you called assholes are obliged to make sure the software you want runs on the OS you bought. You have to research it before you buy it.
NO not a conspiracy never said it was, just a bad fucking attitude. Yes I do blame them because they have the attitude of ignoring customer demand. Chrome is competing with Windows, yes that is part of the free market, not against it. But that lack of disclosure put me in the position of having to find out after the fact.
This is the overall climate of global corporatism. The fight over customers isn't about them, the fight over customers is a competition at the top for volume. Now as an example, before I bought this, I considered seeing if the old won could be fixed, the mom and pop guy I bought it from didn't simply take the old one and say " I can fix it" he flat out told me how much it would cost to fix the old one. Point being big business cares too much about making the sale first than to doing the right thing and making sure the buy is the right fit for the consumer. No that is not a conspiracy, but it is a bad climate of priorities.
Making a quick buck is unfortunately what it is about. But just like expecting workers to multi task and work more and get paid less, rushing to make the sale has a hidden cost. You leave the consumer with a bad taste in their mouths they are going to end up going somewhere else. That is precisely what I am doing today returning this, and I would not advise anyone to buy a computer from Walmart. And even outside Walmart, anyone can tell you that Microsoft has had a bad image with several of it's versions. One mistake I can accept, but when you are putting out crap that frustrates the public it over and over it isn't simply "We did our best" and "do your research". When you deliberately rush to make the sale, that isn't a mistake.
It is NOT a conspiracy, no. But there is a huge difference between calling something a good business practice pointing to a profit margin, and the separate issue of ethics and morals and calling something a good business practice, which CAN include making a buck and compete without rushing to make the buck. There is so much needless waste in our current global market, and this is simply one example.
