Then I left it alone at a friend's house, and they had a family with a toddler come visit.
She ripped my left shift key off and rendered it useless. No idea how, I wasn't there. But here's the kicker:
Apple won't replace it without replacing the entire keyboard for $283. I called customer service 5 times hoping to get a sane representative that would just send me the key so I could put it on myself. Each time I ended up visiting their supervisors, and their answer was "sorry, you have to send your machine in and get the keyboard replaced for $283."
None of them could just send me a darn shift key. I just want the key, I can do the rest myself. With any other vendor, replacing my shift key would have been simple. Hell I can get a cheap laptop for $283.
I'm torn. I really enjoy my Apple (even though I use Linux on it), but with this kind of customer service I think I'd be better with a generic PC.
Well, then buy a Dell or HP or Lenovo, and the keyboard they will force upon you in that case will only be $190. Yeah, that number is made up, but they won't sell you single key caps either.
I'm a bit baffled by your question. Is there any dispute whatsoever that a DRM file is inherently inferior to a DRM-free file?
There is no dispute whatsoever that being able to buy a DRMed tune is better than not being able to buy that tune at all. That's what Apple sold, and that's what the guy in the made up story bought without any sort of force on him whatsoever.
These companies don't seem to get it. You can't just slap OS X on generic parts and call it the same as Apple. With Apple you're also paying for support, for prestige, for lots of intangibles that people value.
Except that some people don't value support, prestige or intangibles.
Suppose I want a simple Core2Duo tower with 2 hard drives, a free PCI slot, a 9600GT or GTX260 video card to dual boot XP/*nix and OSX. That hardware will run well under $2k even after you drop a 21" monitor on it.
What does any of what you wrote have to do with Psystar? Would you actually buy one of their overpriced pieces of shit to run OS X?
A few years back I tried installing iTunes and the damned thing ran through a quarter of my collection 'importing' my mp3s to its DRM proprietary format and deleting the originals!
So really what you think your doing in boycotting them is just being stupid and showing your lack of knowledge of the situation. Because Apple really isnt in the business to DRM crap...
It may not be Apple's "fault" that there is DRM. Maybe they don't want it to be there--maybe it's entirely the labels making that call, and Apple has no choice, if they want to sell those tracks.
But that doesn't mean that boycotting Apple is a mistake.
Yeah, because it will show those who offer DRM-free music on the iTMS how stupid that was.
Listen to it on Linux no, but my brother, a very average computer user, was quite disappointed to learn that he couldn't listen to his iTunes purchases on his generic MP3 player that his wife got him for his birthday. He has no idea what DRM stands for, but now that I've had a talk with him he DOES understand that the songs he now buys from Amazon.com work fine on that player.
Whether or not he understood DRM or not, Apple still lost a customer in this case. I'm sure it won't be their only one. The question is simply the point at which the revenue that DRM loses outpaces the revenue that it brings in.
Why exactly did Apple lose a customer? Because his wife bought him a non-iPod? Because that piece of junk can't even play the DRM-free iTunes Plus titles? Or is it because if he had an iPod it could play the songs from Amazon just fine?
Nope. The norwegian study didn't concentrate on correlation but on busting the hypothesis about cloud formation, cosmic rays and global warming... And then they added a mention of no correlation having been found earlier.
So they are saying "We found out that B isn't caused by A in the ways that have been suggested. Also note that studies haven't shown correlation between those either."
So the cosmic ray thing doesn't really have anything to back it up.
Well, it disproves Global Warming, that's all the back up it needs.
I beg the differ, why then are games like zelda or portal so popular? The way i see it, people do like puzzles. Usually people would enjoy easy to medium difficulty puzzles with the occasional hard puzzles that actually gives them a sense of accomplishment.
Sure. But how many times can you solve the same puzzle, and how many times can you fight the same (type) of monster before it gets booooring? And how much time has to go into designing either task? When you get payed each month if people still play your game (as with MMOs), which task will you put your money to?
Well, there is one (physical!) button to put it in "quiet" ring-mode - judging from many rings where there shouldn't be any, that must be a real tough one on other phones.
I have a hunch that Steve is looking for something a lot better than text copy-paste.
So? I'm sure that he- along with lots of other companies- is, but that's no excuse for leaving the facility out altogether until something better comes along!
Well, the excuse is that others have done exactly that, and thus Windows (and a lot of other stuff) is full of interface quirks that are still in because people got so used to them they reject the better fix. Which (at least in the Windows case) results in some apps supporting only the old, some only the new, and some being forced to support both. Heck, apps supporting just one method will often use the other for something completely else. Yeah, a fine solution that is.
Oh, you want an example? Try the keyboard command(s) for closing a window. Or the overlying MDI/SDI mess.
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Every couple of weeks? What the hell were you doing to Vista that invoked Blue Screens that often?
He turned off the default action of silently restarting instead of displaying the BSOD?
PSYSTAR is just selling what the market wants. Attempting to make money filling a consumer need.
You make it sound like Psystar is an outfit of organized crime.
Then I left it alone at a friend's house, and they had a family with a toddler come visit. She ripped my left shift key off and rendered it useless. No idea how, I wasn't there. But here's the kicker: Apple won't replace it without replacing the entire keyboard for $283. I called customer service 5 times hoping to get a sane representative that would just send me the key so I could put it on myself. Each time I ended up visiting their supervisors, and their answer was "sorry, you have to send your machine in and get the keyboard replaced for $283." None of them could just send me a darn shift key. I just want the key, I can do the rest myself. With any other vendor, replacing my shift key would have been simple. Hell I can get a cheap laptop for $283. I'm torn. I really enjoy my Apple (even though I use Linux on it), but with this kind of customer service I think I'd be better with a generic PC.
Well, then buy a Dell or HP or Lenovo, and the keyboard they will force upon you in that case will only be $190. Yeah, that number is made up, but they won't sell you single key caps either.
If any other company tried this, there'd be an uproar.
You are absolutely right, but since they are "fighting Apple", Slashbots glance over the fact.
Inferior to what exactly?
I'm a bit baffled by your question. Is there any dispute whatsoever that a DRM file is inherently inferior to a DRM-free file?
There is no dispute whatsoever that being able to buy a DRMed tune is better than not being able to buy that tune at all. That's what Apple sold, and that's what the guy in the made up story bought without any sort of force on him whatsoever.
These companies don't seem to get it. You can't just slap OS X on generic parts and call it the same as Apple. With Apple you're also paying for support, for prestige, for lots of intangibles that people value.
Except that some people don't value support, prestige or intangibles.
Suppose I want a simple Core2Duo tower with 2 hard drives, a free PCI slot, a 9600GT or GTX260 video card to dual boot XP/*nix and OSX. That hardware will run well under $2k even after you drop a 21" monitor on it.
What does any of what you wrote have to do with Psystar? Would you actually buy one of their overpriced pieces of shit to run OS X?
Don't disagree with you.. But Psystar is not selling counterfeits. They're selling clones.
No they don't. They are selling overpriced PCs that can't even install OS X out of the box.
... they just provide a compatible piece of hardware
No, not really. Which is the part where they screw their customers (if they actually were so gullible).
Why exactly did Apple lose a customer?
Well, if you want it in the abstract I'd say it's because he discovered that Apple was selling an inferior product.
Inferior to what exactly? 10 bucks the whole story was made up on the spot.
ACH! Mine stollen ist stolen!!!
And your sigs about Grammar Nazis... Now that's class.
Actually, I suspect that was a pun also (lost on non-speakers of German).
A few years back I tried installing iTunes and the damned thing ran through a quarter of my collection 'importing' my mp3s to its DRM proprietary format and deleting the originals!
Are you a liar or an utter moron?
So really what you think your doing in boycotting them is just being stupid and showing your lack of knowledge of the situation. Because Apple really isnt in the business to DRM crap...
It may not be Apple's "fault" that there is DRM. Maybe they don't want it to be there--maybe it's entirely the labels making that call, and Apple has no choice, if they want to sell those tracks. But that doesn't mean that boycotting Apple is a mistake.
Yeah, because it will show those who offer DRM-free music on the iTMS how stupid that was.
The only real way to get rid of DRM is to just STOP BUYING CRAP MUSIC.
As if all DRM-free music were also crap-free.
Most people are idiots. And that is exactly why we need campaigns like defective by design.
Because only idiots could appreciate campaigns like that?
Listen to it on Linux no, but my brother, a very average computer user, was quite disappointed to learn that he couldn't listen to his iTunes purchases on his generic MP3 player that his wife got him for his birthday. He has no idea what DRM stands for, but now that I've had a talk with him he DOES understand that the songs he now buys from Amazon.com work fine on that player.
Whether or not he understood DRM or not, Apple still lost a customer in this case. I'm sure it won't be their only one. The question is simply the point at which the revenue that DRM loses outpaces the revenue that it brings in.
Why exactly did Apple lose a customer? Because his wife bought him a non-iPod? Because that piece of junk can't even play the DRM-free iTunes Plus titles? Or is it because if he had an iPod it could play the songs from Amazon just fine?
You could show your "appreciation" for the DRM'd music by buying something from the iTunes Plus store...
Which cost more, I would buy from iTunes but amazon is cheaper for drm free music.
Since when is 99 cents more than 99 cents?
Let me get this straight: you are claiming that because recently the CO2 levels may have gone down, they never were up, so Global Warming is a hoax?
Nope. The norwegian study didn't concentrate on correlation but on busting the hypothesis about cloud formation, cosmic rays and global warming... And then they added a mention of no correlation having been found earlier.
So they are saying "We found out that B isn't caused by A in the ways that have been suggested. Also note that studies haven't shown correlation between those either."
So the cosmic ray thing doesn't really have anything to back it up.
Well, it disproves Global Warming, that's all the back up it needs.
I beg the differ, why then are games like zelda or portal so popular? The way i see it, people do like puzzles. Usually people would enjoy easy to medium difficulty puzzles with the occasional hard puzzles that actually gives them a sense of accomplishment.
Sure. But how many times can you solve the same puzzle, and how many times can you fight the same (type) of monster before it gets booooring? And how much time has to go into designing either task? When you get payed each month if people still play your game (as with MMOs), which task will you put your money to?
Well, there is one (physical!) button to put it in "quiet" ring-mode - judging from many rings where there shouldn't be any, that must be a real tough one on other phones.
I have a hunch that Steve is looking for something a lot better than text copy-paste.
So? I'm sure that he- along with lots of other companies- is, but that's no excuse for leaving the facility out altogether until something better comes along!
Well, the excuse is that others have done exactly that, and thus Windows (and a lot of other stuff) is full of interface quirks that are still in because people got so used to them they reject the better fix. Which (at least in the Windows case) results in some apps supporting only the old, some only the new, and some being forced to support both. Heck, apps supporting just one method will often use the other for something completely else. Yeah, a fine solution that is.
Oh, you want an example? Try the keyboard command(s) for closing a window. Or the overlying MDI/SDI mess.
They truly are boffins - one is even called Boffin.
Why? Do you honestly think Apple would catch something like this? They didn't the first time, and it was their own applications!
Nice try, but those are two completely different things.
A high taxation of caffeine containing beverage raw materials may also work.
What do you call a banana? A carrot? Call me when you try to make sense.