Are you stupid, or just being intentionally dense?

You're missing the point. You're only incompetent if you didn't achieve your goal, and should have been able to. A con artist's goal is his own well being, not that of anyone else.

Not that I agree with those business tactics, but I think your dishonest = incompetent equation doesn't make much sense. If a con artist manages to con people out of a lot of money, he's definitely dishonest. However you can't really call him incompetent.

Ellen is a person who brazenly attempted to abuse the gender inequality debate in a high profile court case to make millions of dollars when she was fired for being abrasive, lazy and generally incompetent. Her husband is just as scummy a person, who participates in ponzi schemes and other less than above board activities. I'm frankly happy she's gone from Reddit. She is a horrible person.

In a lot of cases they're not even evidence of that.

Nobody is asking for a new material to build the phone out of. Nobody is asking for another gig of ram, or a bigger screen. What people ARE asking for is better battery life. Making a phone out of exotic materials and then pricing yourself out of the market is a dumb idea. The world doesn't need another luxury smartphone. It needs a better smartphone for the average user.

Apparently there's no correlation between intelligence and low slashdot user ids.

Moron detected. Abort! Abort!

You mean Tim Cook might have to deal with a slightly less than full scrooge mcduck swimming pool? The inhumanity!

..would people shit on someone for acknowledging a problem, admitting fault, and then moving to fix it in a way that benefits not just the consumer, but everyone else too.

No, I'm really not doing it wrong. You just don't seem to understand that I require a lot more beyond a basic desktop, because you're an idiot that thinks everyone's setup is exactly like yours.

Do you really want your asteroid behind a bookshelf?

You're a complete idiot that doesn't understand what concept car camouflage is.

The order of the day seems to be trying to invent solutions for problems that don't exist.

The only reason to buy AMD these days is if you're on a budget, and you're OK with middling performance.