Poll of the Day > Which big company do you hate most?

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My hatred of EA comes from their strongest punch to my face.
My stronger hatred for Google comes from their flick, after all the good they've done.
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I don't think I've ever even been in an Ikea.

Gotta go with EA. I'm not a fan of a few of those companies, but EA have more than once directly, negatively, and irreparably impacted my entertainment.

Apple is far worse than any other option-I like a lot of their products but they're just laughing at us now and haven't put any serious thought into their work for years. The whole "just works" ethos has been turned into "how flashy can we make it, functionality be damned".
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who hates Ikea lol
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FatalAccident posted...

who hates Ikea lol

It's to throw people off. XD

Sony.

But I went with Apple. Bunch of fucking sheep buying their shit that's marked up 300%. It's disgusting.

Apple. Garbage products, always have been, but they stay profitable due to a cult of gullible morons
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Nestle
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Monsanto
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Facebook.

Of that list, Stallbucks.
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I wish that hobo store best buy would close down forever already, ok?

They keep barely holding on, but we all know the writing is on the wall for that place, ok?
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AirBnB

But on that list, M$. Not b/c of their products, but after going to a few of their Tech events, didn't really like the treatment I received.

$ony
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Nestle
Comcast
AT&T
Verizon
CNN
FOX News
Ubisoft
EA
Monsanto

Why would you leave out Activision and not give me 3 votes? It's a 3 way tie between M$, EA, and Act. I'm indifferent towards Ikea and Disney. Ubi is ok. The rest offend me a little but not as much as the first 3.

GanglyKhan posted...

Sony.

But I went with Apple. Bunch of fucking sheep buying their shit that's marked up 300%. It's disgusting.

BADoglick posted...

Apple. Garbage products, always have been, but they stay profitable due to a cult of gullible morons

Why do I see this assumption on the boards all the time? Ive tried many other phone brands, the only one Ive never had a problem with is Apple. So I stick to it. Not sure what the problem is.
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ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Why do I see this assumption on the boards all the time? Ive tried many other phone brands, the only one Ive never had a problem with is Apple. So I stick to it. Not sure what the problem is.

The problem is you can get an identical product, without the half chewed fruit on the back, for half the price. They do nothing and charge a premium for it.

Google. Pretty sure their endgame is to control the internet and what content we get. Plus, they'll probably come up with some A.I. to police us or something

DPsx7 posted...

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Why do I see this assumption on the boards all the time? Ive tried many other phone brands, the only one Ive never had a problem with is Apple. So I stick to it. Not sure what the problem is.

The problem is you can get an identical product, without the half chewed fruit on the back, for half the price. They do nothing and charge a premium for it.

Android is indentical to iPhone? Not really. Any Android comes with a shitton of bloatware that the providers and device manufacturers shovel onto the device that you can only remove if you jailbreak your phone. iPhones only come with the default Apple apps which you can uninstall at any time. They can also do the exact same functions as androids. You can still play games, make and receive calls, make and receive text messages, and use the same apps. The only difference is that you dont have to deal with shovelware apps.

The observation that @ChaoticKnuckles was asking about is the internet hivemind opinion that iPhones are bad because theyre overpriced and that people who buy them are drones because they like something they dont like.

WastelandCowboy posted...

DPsx7 posted...

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Why do I see this assumption on the boards all the time? Ive tried many other phone brands, the only one Ive never had a problem with is Apple. So I stick to it. Not sure what the problem is.

The problem is you can get an identical product, without the half chewed fruit on the back, for half the price. They do nothing and charge a premium for it.

Android is indentical to iPhone? Not really. Any Android comes with a shitton of bloatware that the providers and device manufacturers shovel onto the device that you can only remove if you jailbreak your phone. iPhones only come with the default Apple apps which you can uninstall at any time. They can also do the exact same functions as androids. You can still play games, make and receive calls, make and receive text messages, and use the same apps. The only difference is that you dont have to deal with shovelware apps.

The observation that @ChaoticKnuckles was asking about is the internet hivemind opinion that iPhones are bad because theyre overpriced and that people who buy them are drones because they like something they dont like.

If a minor thing like that is worth nearly double the price then by all means... you do you

Voted Starbucks.
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Red_Frog posted...

Gotta go with EA. I'm not a fan of a few of those companies, but EA have more than once directly, negatively, and irreparably impacted my entertainment.

This.

EA basically seems to exist solely to track down things people like, buy those things, and then do their best to repeatedly shit into those people's mouths until they stop liking those things.


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None of the above. In fact, I don't even hate any of them. The closest I might come is EA or Apple. Possibly Microsoft as well, because they pointlessly update their software for the sake of having new versions (and fuck the ribbon system) to make more money.

AC_Dragonfire posted...

EA
Ubi$oft
Disney
Apple
Walmart
$tarbucks
Best Buy
Ikea
Microsoft
Google

Why aren't you doing the $ for Micro$oft?

Blaqthourne posted...

Facebook

I can dig it.

Nomak-54 posted...

Nestle

Oo

BubbleGumCrisis posted...

Monsanto

That's your one active post. Really a waste. >_>

Sonicplys posted...

$ony

tbh, wondering why this wasn't an option on the poll. Nintendo and Micro$oft were on there. And Sony has certainly done plenty of dick things, like market the ps3 at least partly on the fact it could support Linux then killing the support for it.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Comcast

Yesssssss.... That's a truly hate-worthy company.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Android is indentical to iPhone? Not really. Any Android comes with a shitton of bloatware that the providers and device manufacturers shovel onto the device that you can only remove if you jailbreak your phone. iPhones only come with the default Apple apps which you can uninstall at any time. They can also do the exact same functions as androids. You can still play games, make and receive calls, make and receive text messages, and use the same apps. The only difference is that you dont have to deal with shovelware apps.

And that justifies the fact that it's like 2-5x the price? >_>
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Poll is invalid without Activision but without them there, EA.
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Let me put it this way. I can break and replace my current phone 4 times over before I can save up enough to get an iPhone X.

And I bought a $35 SD Card to bump up my storage to 128 GB. That kind of storage increase on an iPhone would run you another $150 because they're pieces of shit (the people at Apple, not the phones).

Having some ghetto apps that are locked onto the phone I just disable that take up a collective 120 MB isn't worth shelling out an additional $800 so I can say "look at how user friendly this is!"

WastelandCowboy posted...

Android is indentical to iPhone? Not really. Any Android comes with a shitton of bloatware that the providers and device manufacturers shovel onto the device that you can only remove if you jailbreak your phone. iPhones only come with the default Apple apps which you can uninstall at any time. They can also do the exact same functions as androids. You can still play games, make and receive calls, make and receive text messages, and use the same apps. The only difference is that you dont have to deal with shovelware apps.

The observation that @ChaoticKnuckles was asking about is the internet hivemind opinion that iPhones are bad because theyre overpriced and that people who buy them are drones because they like something they dont like.

Minimum 2x the price, less options, inferior hardware most the time and and you can take off all the bloatware on android if you want, stuff that you could ignore and doesn't harm you anyway... The whole reason apple doesn't have as much bloatware is because Apple uses their OWN bloatware and locks you into it just to use basic features so you're essentially paying for Apple exclusive bloatware and no additional options and at 2x the price....Apple doesn't even like making things backwards compatible with their OWN devices.

Also, you not having problems isn't everyone. You could be an outlier, same way plenty of people don't have problem with android. In any case, one of the least intelligent things I've heard about why you're picking ANY brand over another... It spells sucker regardless of what company does it.
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Twitter or more to the point how some people act like it created the internet.
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BubbleGumCrisis posted...

Monsanto

I detect a tin hat and something about GMOs.

DPsx7 posted...

Why would you leave out Activision and not give me 3 votes? It's a 3 way tie between M$, EA, and Act. I'm indifferent towards Ikea and Disney. Ubi is ok. The rest offend me a little but not as much as the first 3.

That's a lie. You want to vote for Valve 3 times.

GanglyKhan posted...

Let me put it this way. I can break and replace my current phone 4 times over before I can save up enough to get an iPhone X.

There's literally no reason to get an iPhone X.
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I actually like the majority of the companies on that list

Im not fond of EA though simply because of their history of buying developers and then shutting them down
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DPsx7 posted...

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Why do I see this assumption on the boards all the time? Ive tried many other phone brands, the only one Ive never had a problem with is Apple. So I stick to it. Not sure what the problem is.

The problem is you can get an identical product, without the half chewed fruit on the back, for half the price. They do nothing and charge a premium for it.

Is that really true for phones though? All the phones that directly compete with the iPhone (except the X which I have no desire to own) are comparable in price. And the cheaper phones made by other manufacturers are the ones Ive had problems with. I cant speak on their other products as I dont own an Apple computer or an Apple Watch or anything like that. But the latest iphone costs the same as the lastest Samsung phone or Google phone or whatever so Im not sure where the 2x cost thing is coming from unless youre talking about other Apple products.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

DPsx7 posted...

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Why do I see this assumption on the boards all the time? Ive tried many other phone brands, the only one Ive never had a problem with is Apple. So I stick to it. Not sure what the problem is.

The problem is you can get an identical product, without the half chewed fruit on the back, for half the price. They do nothing and charge a premium for it.

Android is indentical to iPhone? Not really. Any Android comes with a shitton of bloatware that the providers and device manufacturers shovel onto the device that you can only remove if you jailbreak your phone. iPhones only come with the default Apple apps which you can uninstall at any time. They can also do the exact same functions as androids. You can still play games, make and receive calls, make and receive text messages, and use the same apps. The only difference is that you dont have to deal with shovelware apps.

The observation that @ChaoticKnuckles was asking about is the internet hivemind opinion that iPhones are bad because theyre overpriced and that people who buy them are drones because they like something they dont like.

Not the OS, the hardware. Bloatware is easy to shut off.

Chaotic is right though. CrApple products are disgustingly overpriced compared to equivalent products and yes people buy it because it makes them feel elite for pissing away that kind of money.

There are a lot of cases where people make a decision to see themselves as a status symbol when the reality is they're just a tool. Oh you're a 'social media celeb'? Go play in the dirt, scrub. You're nothing. Mac user? Lol.

DPsx7 posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

DPsx7 posted...

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Why do I see this assumption on the boards all the time? Ive tried many other phone brands, the only one Ive never had a problem with is Apple. So I stick to it. Not sure what the problem is.

The problem is you can get an identical product, without the half chewed fruit on the back, for half the price. They do nothing and charge a premium for it.

Android is indentical to iPhone? Not really. Any Android comes with a shitton of bloatware that the providers and device manufacturers shovel onto the device that you can only remove if you jailbreak your phone. iPhones only come with the default Apple apps which you can uninstall at any time. They can also do the exact same functions as androids. You can still play games, make and receive calls, make and receive text messages, and use the same apps. The only difference is that you dont have to deal with shovelware apps.

The observation that @ChaoticKnuckles was asking about is the internet hivemind opinion that iPhones are bad because theyre overpriced and that people who buy them are drones because they like something they dont like.

Not the OS, the hardware. Bloatware is easy to shut off.

Chaotic is right though. CrApple products are disgustingly overpriced compared to equivalent products and yes people buy it because it makes them feel elite for pissing away that kind of money.

There are a lot of cases where people make a decision to see themselves as a status symbol when the reality is they're just a tool. Oh you're a 'social media celeb'? Go play in the dirt, scrub. You're nothing. Mac user? Lol.

This is what Im talking about. Where is this assumption coming from? The reason I stick to iPhone is that Ive tried phones from like 4-5 other manufacturers and always ended up having issues with them. Never had an issue with an iPhone, why would I switch to something else given my past experiences?
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Google easily
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Revelation34 posted...

DPsx7 posted...

Why would you leave out Activision and not give me 3 votes? It's a 3 way tie between M$, EA, and Act. I'm indifferent towards Ikea and Disney. Ubi is ok. The rest offend me a little but not as much as the first 3.

That's a lie. You want to vote for Valve 3 times.

Hmm, well not exactly. While I don't like them I can pretend that HL1 was their best and only product then they shut down. The other 3 are guilty of far worse. Besides it was easy to dump PC as a bad gaming platform. EA, Act, and M$ are shitting up consoles which is my focus now.

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

This is what Im talking about. Where is this assumption coming from? The reason I stick to iPhone is that Ive tried phones from like 4-5 other manufacturers and always ended up having issues with them. Never had an issue with an iPhone, why would I switch to something else given my past experiences?

Sounds like a 'you' problem really. Possibly because you're forced to use only software they create. Less compatibility issues, but less flexibility by getting locked in their ecosystem. Like was said if that's what you want to go with then whatever. But don't act surprised when nobody is impressed. (Not that you're trying...)

I like that there are companies on the list that have done actual terrible things and people here are thinking "micro transactions make me mad."
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DPsx7 posted...

The rest offend me a little but not as much as the first 3.

Who the fuck gets offended by a company

DPsx7 posted...

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

This is what Im talking about. Where is this assumption coming from? The reason I stick to iPhone is that Ive tried phones from like 4-5 other manufacturers and always ended up having issues with them. Never had an issue with an iPhone, why would I switch to something else given my past experiences?

Sounds like a 'you' problem really. Possibly because you're forced to use only software they create. Less compatibility issues, but less flexibility by getting locked in their ecosystem. Like was said if that's what you want to go with then whatever. But don't act surprised when nobody is impressed. (Not that you're trying...)

Well obviously yes I make my purchasing decisions for me so of course its a me problem. But even within your response youre like dont act surprised when nobody is impressed. Like where does that assumption come from? I dont get it. I already posted twice why I personally have stuck with iPhone and yet you still felt the need to throw that in there. Are you surrounded by people who are constantly trying to impress you with their phones and stuff?
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ChaoticKnuckles posted...

DPsx7 posted...

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

This is what Im talking about. Where is this assumption coming from? The reason I stick to iPhone is that Ive tried phones from like 4-5 other manufacturers and always ended up having issues with them. Never had an issue with an iPhone, why would I switch to something else given my past experiences?

Sounds like a 'you' problem really. Possibly because you're forced to use only software they create. Less compatibility issues, but less flexibility by getting locked in their ecosystem. Like was said if that's what you want to go with then whatever. But don't act surprised when nobody is impressed. (Not that you're trying...)

Well obviously yes I make my purchasing decisions for me so of course its a me problem. But even within your response youre like dont act surprised when nobody is impressed. Like where does that assumption come from? I dont get it. I already posted twice why I personally have stuck with iPhone and yet you still felt the need to throw that in there. Are you surrounded by people who are constantly trying to impress you with their phones and stuff?

Hes not because hes literally a self-proclaimed anti-social asexual who just makes it a hobby to sit on this board and post about how he doesnt know anything about pop culture, thinks hes better than people who have cellphones or use social media, and bitches about Steam.

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Well obviously yes I make my purchasing decisions for me so of course its a me problem. But even within your response youre like dont act surprised when nobody is impressed. Like where does that assumption come from? I dont get it. I already posted twice why I personally have stuck with iPhone and yet you still felt the need to throw that in there. Are you surrounded by people who are constantly trying to impress you with their phones and stuff?

You're the one asking about our view on crApple. I didn't say you're trying to impress anyone but my previous reply explained the mentality of people who usually purchase the products. So, don't be surprised when we go 'yuck, another Apple user'. Stereotypes are funny like that.

Disney. They made me stop caring about Marvel and SW, my two favourite things in the 90s. Fuck.
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CacciatoPart3 posted...

Hes not because hes literally a self-proclaimed anti-social asexual who just makes it a hobby to sit on this board and post about how he doesnt know anything about pop culture, thinks hes better than people who have cellphones or use social media, and bitches about Steam.

Aw, somebody is jealous... And yeah, of those groups, I am. I've seen plenty of evidence.

DPsx7 posted...

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Well obviously yes I make my purchasing decisions for me so of course its a me problem. But even within your response youre like dont act surprised when nobody is impressed. Like where does that assumption come from? I dont get it. I already posted twice why I personally have stuck with iPhone and yet you still felt the need to throw that in there. Are you surrounded by people who are constantly trying to impress you with their phones and stuff?

You're the one asking about our view on crApple. I didn't say you're trying to impress anyone but my previous reply explained the mentality of people who usually purchase the products. So, don't be surprised when we go 'yuck, another Apple user'. Stereotypes are funny like that.

My question is why you think thats the mentality of most people that purchase them. Which is why I asked if youre surrounded by people that are constantly trying to impress you with their phones or something. Im just not really understanding where the perception you have is coming from. I mean I dont think Ive ever run across someone that tried to impress me with their phone or computer or something, whether it be Apple or otherwise.
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Google ruins everything they touch.
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The newer I-Phones don't even have an aux port lmao
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Krow_Incarnate posted...

The newer I-Phones don't even have an aux port lmao

Cause pretty much everything has Bluetooth
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GanglyKhan posted...

Having some ghetto apps that are locked onto the phone I just disable that take up a collective 120 MB isn't worth shelling out an additional $800 so I can say "look at how user friendly this is!"

Are they all that user-friendly, though? I have an old iPhone 4 (which I use as a MP3 player) and it doesn't seem that much better or worse than any of my Android-based phones.

wwinterj25 posted...

Twitter or more to the point how some people act like it created the internet.

Not fond of Twitter in terms of format, layout, etc, but the social media site I really hate is Reddit. Would it Reddit be considered a big company?

kangolcone posted...

I like that there are companies on the list that have done actual terrible things and people here are thinking "micro transactions make me mad."

The companies doing actual awful stuff aren't really on the list at all. It's all trivial companies, not things like BP where their ineptitude caused a massive oil spill and then they allegedly used illegal chemicals to speed up the cleanup.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Disney. They made me stop caring about Marvel and SW, my two favourite things in the 90s. Fuck.

tbh, the Disney takeover killed the best Spider-Man cartoon so far. And, while the prequel trilogy was awful, TFA was soulless garbage. (TLJ was actually a lot better except for Finn & Rose who ate up a lot of time with their pointless misadventure.) And, after the first few MCU films, I kinda lost interest. Part of that was the Whedonized Avengers movie.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

Google ruins everything they touch.

tbh, the only major problem I have with Google is after they bought YT they merged YT with Google+ so they could make Google+'s userbase look bigger. I still prefer gmail to other mail services.
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