Worst Apple product or accesory?

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the previous thread made me look at some Apple accessories and found this one:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD592L...acbook-air

Please scroll and read the reviews.

wow... why does Apple make stuff like this?

[hal]

Even given the fact that most people say nothing until they want to complain, this is some pretty bad results...

[mrlynn]

hal wrote:
Even given the fact that most people say nothing until they want to complain, this is some pretty bad results...

That was in 2012. Did Apple go back to the previous L-shaped adapter? Did they recall the bad ones?

/Mr Lynn

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as far as I know, the normal MagSafe was initially T (plastic) and then later L (metal). MBA uses MagSafe2, a T (metal) which is thinner and apparently very poorly received by consumers. I don't think Apple made/makes a MagSafe 2 L shaped.

probably those snuglets would solve some of these complaints, but it is still a shame that a company has to fix Apple's desing flaws. I have purchased 2 MBA for my in laws and my parents, used it only for a week each and shipped it to them, so I don't have long term experience with these. Apparently they don't complain about this. I think they use it at the desk, or take the power cable off when they use it on the couch, I never heard them complaining about this coming off easily like in these reviews.

I am somewhat surprised that Apple allowed all these bad reviews on their web site.

[OWC Jamie]

The original T-shaped mag safe connector that came with my 2008 Macbook has just started to fail this month. I've never pulled it out by the cord like so many do with electrical cords.
I have to buy one somewhere soon or invest in a new laptop. ( the battery isn't lasting as long as it used to, and I have never been happy with the hard drive I replaced, and the OS is stuck at 10.6 )
I never saw the connector as a design flaw but a design compromise.
I doubt if Apple owners have had to replace broken logic boards or had to have the power jack repaired/replaced like so many with regular DC jacks do.
I lost count of how many PDQ and Lombard (bronze keyboard) laptops I tore apart to repair or replace the power jack when I had my shop.
What would have been nice would have been another identical jack on the brick end so just the cable could be replaced for $9.99.
Or so.


Probably ran some numbers and the phone support for dummies not capable of checking both ends being plugged in when their battery died cost too much.
:devil:

[Lew Zealand]

Mrs. Zealand has a MagSafe 2 MBP and I have yet to hear of complaints about the adapters or connector. QC issues?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Hockey-puck mouse.

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N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Hockey-puck mouse.

oh yeah, that too, but I was thinking of current Apple products. If we start discussing old products, I am sure there are much, much worse products out there.

[sekker]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Hockey-puck mouse.

You could fix it with a plastic accessory, so not the worst product IMHO.

The question is what would be considered fundamentally flawed. Maybe the crappy blue minikeyboards that came with the hockeypuck mouse...

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

Geoport Telecom Adapter, hands down FTW.