Many cartoons over the years have made jokes about people adding completely ridiculous things to their cars in the name of convenience. They usually end up in a hilarious, hubris-fueled accidents. Unfortunately, it's turning out to be a lot more prophetic and a lot less hilarious than anyone wants to admit.

Yes. Much.

If they insist on the "Samsung iPad" after that, then break out the first one. The sale is probably doomed at that point anyway.

Precisely. That's why you hear "Is Pepsi okay?"

Or, to make a more apt comparison:

"Can I have Pepsi Zero?"
"Well, we have (Diet Pepsi|Coke Zero). Is that okay?"

vs

"Can I have Pepsi Zero?"
"Pepsi doesn't make that. Coke does. Do you want (Coke Zero|Diet Pepsi) or not?"

Oh, man. I'm really glad I still have an unlimited data plan. Can you imagine dumping 2GB of memory on a regular basis? That'd eat up most data plans really fast!

And then I accidentally rooted it.
And then I accidentally installed CyanogenMod on it.

Will no company save me from this vicious cycle of accidentally doing things to my phone?

Yeah, but he can use the same excuses that all other psychics use:

a. "I don't need the money." - He certainly doesn't.
b. "It isn't worth my time." - If you calculate his hourly rate, it probably isn't.
c. "It's not about the money." - Well... okay. He can't use this one.
d. "I don't need to prove my gift to anyone. You just have to have faith." - Faith, and AAPL stock.

... why would they do that?

That sounds like a really good way to lose the sale entirely. I've worked in electronics retail just enough to know that people who can't be bothered to research things like "names of products" don't want to be corrected. The sale is far more likely to happen if you make an educated guess as to what they want and let them tell you if it's not what they wanted.

That's the one where the older you get, the worse it is. I've never been clear on why that is, but if you didn't have it as a kid or get immunized for it and then contract it as an adult, it's a serious problem.

There are valid medical reasons that some people can't get immunized. (Allergies, compromised immune systems, etc.) Those people benefit from herd immunity.

Sounds wonderful until it decides that the fastest route is through the bad area of town.
Or it decides that an address is about two miles away from where it actually is.
Or the road washed out and the car can work out that it can't go that way but can't route around it since the map says it should work.
Or it takes me to the foot of a two mile long driveway and stops.

All things that have happened to me with GPS navigation. Not saying we need pedals and a steering wheels to solve those problems, but they are a really good solution to those problems.

Yeah, pretty much this.

I could go through a laundry-list of problems I have with every OS I currently use (Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04, Windows 7, FreeBSD 9 & 10, several builds of OpenEmbedded) and what I did to fix them or work round them, but that wouldn't be particularly productive unless this happened to be the mailing list for those projects.

I tried to RTFM, but TFM just says I need to RTFM. :(

Lucky you.

They all suck, including the one I use!

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Verizon FiOS. Not Verizon Wireless.

But then again, it seems it's fairly easy to convince legislators that it's essentially the same thing, so I guess you could be forgiven for making the same mistake.

For my part, I'm still going with the company that marginally less anti-consumer than the other.