What a freakin' joke. They're concerned about violent video game legislation while most of the New Orleans population is still homeless? What a backwards ass state that is...
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If the artist makes a bad deal with their label it isn't fair to pin the responsibility for this on Apple. It's between the label and the artist to work out the problems with the contracts. Weird Al says:
...I actually do get significantly more money from CD sales, as opposed to downloads. This is the one thing about my renegotiated record contract that never made much sense to me.
Grant Robertson, the author of the article, is using a certain level of sensationalism to push his story. Weird Al never said the phrase "Raw Deal" in his response to the question posed by Tim Sloane of Ijamsville, MD, that was an addition to the story by Grant.
Aside from that Grant goes on in his story to say:
...you actually own the CD. You're really just kinda leasing the songs with iTunes...
Technically this is true and not true at the same time. You own the CD, you license the music contained on that CD and you license the music from iTunes. The terms of the license agreements aren't the same, but you still license both forms of the music. More misrepresentation used to slam Apple...
Why is Slashdot being irresponsible about how they're posting their stories? It seems that sensationalism is the way to try and get hits these days. If it was a story about how Apple is screwing their clients, as is purported by the story here on Slashdot, then it gets people clicking and angry. If it's a story about how the RIAA is screwing people over then it gets people clicking and angry. But a story about how an artist worked out a bad deal with their label, that might not sell here on Slashdot.
America doesnt buy the world's products by using certain types of laws.
You clearly haven't been to the US. There are more foreign cars on the road in the US than there are domestic ones. The electronics industry, aside from the computer industry, is more or less controlled by the Japanese manufacturers. Quite a bit of music is published by Sony. Clothing is coming from companies which use outsourced labor for the manufacture of textiles. Even the computer industry mostly uses parts which are being manufactured outside of the US. You clearly don't know much about the US economy. The US is the largest customer to the world that there is.
...understands economics the way anyone complaining of outsourcing doesnt.
People that are complaining about outsourcing are doind so because it affects their livelihoods, the qulaity of the work being produced in the tech industry from oustsourcing is declining and the difficulties associated with trying to communicate with people whose primary language is not English becomes very frustrating when it shouldn't be frustrating.
In Brazil, how do sales of Apple products compare to the sale of other manufacturers?
I haven't heard of any outsourcing to Brazil as of yet.
There has been a lot of outsourcing of tech support/customer service to India from the US. This has created many headaches with people in the US having to deal with people that do not speak English as their primary language and many of those tech support people speaking with very thick accents, which makes it very difficult for many Americans to understand them.
As for coding, it seems that many companies are using the "costs less takes longer" approach when they are using outsourced coders. According to recent reports there is apparently a lot of cutting'n'pasting being done and very little testing done by the vast majority of the outsourced coders. Whether this sort of thing will be causing these companies problems in the future remains to be seen. With copyright law in the US the way that it is, you never know if cutting and pasting will end up in a lawsuit over intellectual property rights anymore, the trend seems to be that it will cost the companies money in the future. It's not so much a lack of cutting edge technologies, but rather poor coding practices and carelessness. Now this might not be the case in Brazil, I don't know. I also don't know if this sort of thing will be rectified in India or operations will merely be cancelled due to cost issues.
Since this is a discussion about *software development*... That's your interpretation of this discussion. I am saying that you cannot ignore the planning stages of development which then lead to PR. You seem to be suggesting that there is no planning stage prior to the PR, which I am telling you is wrong.
I have no interest in what emanates from various companies' PR and marketing departments in a discussion about a development lifecycle. And this is how you are choosing to ignore the planning stage of the development life-cycle. That's your own issue. The PR doesn't start prior to development. Throwing out your code-base and starting over doesn't justify a new development life-cycle as you are proposing, sorry.
...another version of "Microsoft sucks"... I never said anything as simplistic as you suggest, I am being critical of what I see as a failed schedule by a company that shouldn't be making these kind of mistakes.
"Longhorn is going to stop being a whole new thing and more of an XP with a lot of good new stuff," said one developer close to Microsoft, who requested anonymity.
said the codebase from which Vista has been developed has only been being worked on since about 2003.
Well, not really, following your "reasoning" regarding NeXTSTEP and OS X Vista's filesystem has been being worked on since at least 2000. Keep reading, you'll see why...
WinFS, the new unified storage system that Gates referred to at PDC as a "holy grail."
Sounds pretty important. But, instead they're basing the file system off the 2003 Server file system. Which was "...first introduced to technical beta testers in mid-2000, it was known by its codename, "Whistler Server"..." which slightly increases your development timeline. Let's be fair, if you're going to insist that OS X is simply NeXTSTEP, which of course, it's got it's heritage in, then let's look at the "full development" cycle of Vista. The file system started being distributed to developers in 2000. Looks more like seven years after all.
These release dates come more than five years after the release of Windows XP, Microsoft's current consumer and business operating system, making it the longest time span between releases of Windows.
Wow, and you aren't buying into the marketing hype? Interesting that you don't appear to mind this little historical fact in the development cycle of this product.
Other features missing: "Due to scheduling issues, the Windows PowerShell, code-named Monad will not be included in Windows Vista." "Owing to significant difficulties in getting third-party developers to support the system (particularly due to the lack of support for writing for the Trusted Operating Root using.NET managed code), the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base architecture was abandoned for Windows Vista." "Support for Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface was originally slated to be included with Vista, but has been removed due to what Microsoft has described as a lack of support on desktop computers."
NeXTSTEP's final version came out in 1995. When Apple bought NeXT in 1997 it was OpenStep, but that doesn't really matter. Apple also didn't hype their production of OS X in 1997 when they purchased NeXT, so you can't really make the comparison that you are without looking at the marketing machinations of both companies. Microsoft likes to announce things way in advance to get people talking, while Apple generally likes to keep things tightly under wraps until they make their announcements. The two companies work differently than each other, certainly, but you can't simply ignore how they hype their products as that shows quite a bit about how they do business. To ignore the company announcements as not being part of the development cycle is ignorant of the reality of how much progress has to have been made in the planning of the product. You don't develop on a large scale project like this without a lot of planning first, which then allows you to release the hype, if that's the way you do business. I still contend that Microsoft's development schedule from first announcement to actual launch, which is still to be seen, is the true measurement. This software development timeline is embarrassing for them.
I'm not a "journalist" supposedly presenting an "unbiased review". I have made critical comments about a company that I see as needing to take on the role that they should be fulfilling, an industry leader that is creative and innovative.
You'll have to be more clear about this 4 GiB of memory for a "single session of photography". Aperture's entire installation requires "5GB of disk space for application, sample projects, and tutorial". While the iLife suite requires 10GB of available disk space, but that includes photo production, video production, DVD production, music production and Web page development tools. I've built 2 hour DVD projects using DVD Stupio Pro and iDVD which end up needing only about 12 GiBs of space, so I don't know which single photography sessions you're talking about.
I'm not scared about anything with Microsoft. I've come to expect more of the same from them. I'd be ecstatic if they'd finally do the whole thing right. I have to develop for their platform on a daily basis, which is why I've come to be disappointed in them. Please expound on the, I'm guessing, Apple mimicry that you mention. You've read way too much into my criticism of Microsoft, I don't hate Vista, I don't understand why it has taken the largest software development company with the most money in the world this long to produce a product.
The fact that Microsoft has "taken a bit longer" is what I find so troubling. When a company of their size with their revenues and their position isn't forward thinking without some other company doing it first then there's a real problem in the world today. Microsoft should be leading the industry forward with new and innovative designs and concepts, they shouldn't be playing follow the leader with other companies.
Thank you for referencing those quotes, they're great examples to my positions and they really show that I don't have the bias that you claim/assume that I have. Sure I make comparisons between Apple and Microsoft, but I don't appear to make off the cuff comments in either of those quoted posts, aside from the connotation of the word "stolen". I presented a situation in both of those and then expressed my observations.
Sure, there are more configurations, but Microsoft essentially dictates how those hardware configurations interact with the OS. They also don't supply their own drivers, like Apple does. Microsoft leaves driver development up to the third party hardware vendors to figure out. If a driver doesn't function properly under Windows you generally go to the hardware developer site to get a fixed version, not Microsoft.
You are correct, I blew that number out of proportion. However, you are mistaken as to when Microsoft started talking about Vista/Longhorn.
From Wikipedia: Microsoft first talked about "Longhorn" in July 2001, even before Windows XP's release in October of that year. It was originally expected to ship sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP and "Blackcomb" (now known as Windows "Vienna").
With a supposed 2007 launch, that is still getting pushed back, it'll only be just under six years from first mention to launch and only four years since the first reported launch date. Also with a completely stripped down feature set since most of what they had originally touted it to have won't be present.
For the largest software company in the world with the most monetary resources available to them than any other software company, I find that timeframe amazing, don't you?
I might be missing your point, but it seems that you are saying that US companies are selling their products throughout the world and therefore should offer work to the people of the world because they sell to the world. But then you appear to be saying that the products sold by those companies are pirated in those countries. So, it appears that you are saying that those countries aren't really purchasing the products, they're stealing them? Then, following your logic, I believe, why should those companies offer work in those countries if they make no money there due to piracy?
I think that I may be a bit confused due to your language skills.
This isn't because of the fact that it steals most of it's features from those competing products? Then again, with beautiful non-buggy windows that look like this, who could argue?
...we're still dealing with a relatively early beta version.
Wow, after, what is it now, seven years? It's an EARLY beta version?!?!?! Daniel Schuhmann needs to get his head out in the light more often because something is affecting his brain up in that dark damp place he's got it now.
It's amazing that a "hardware" company like Apple can roll out a new OS nearly every year while it takes a "software" company like Microsoft seven to steal all of Apple's ideas...:P
SyQuest had a great rebate offer on their SyJet drives. They had 1.5GB cartridges when Zip was only 100MB and my machine had a 500MB hard drive. Well, they went bankrupt and out of business before I ever got my rebate check, dirty bastards. Now I can no longer use the thing with any machine/OS as the drivers don't work with OS 9 anymore and I have about 10 inaccessible cartridges sitting in a pile in a corner along with the drive.
Sometimes I fantasize that someday somebody will write drivers for OS X that will allow me to pull my data off them.
I don't understand how they still have a website after all this time...
It sure seems like you don't spend any time on the support pages. If the end user destroys their battery in 18 months then that's their own fault or it's a defective battery, hardly a QA problem. It's a rare occurrence and Apple deals with such issues in a very timely manner. Somehow I and many others have managed to keep ours working for nearly 60 months now with little difference in performance.
The MacBooks weren't overheating, they ran pretty warm until Apple released the software patch. Now those machines run at very reasonable temperatures. People that perceive problems, with the advent of the internet and the anonymity which it provides them feel that they are in the right to blow minor issues completely out of proportion. Then the anti-Apple cultists feel that they are right in reporting it as if it were big news when it's not. There haven't been any recalls, as Gundeep Hora claims. There have been problems which are and have been rectified and addressed in a very timely manner.
Gundeep Hora has totally blown the problems he mentions out of proportion. The battery life of the iPod's weren't even mentioned, I brought that up, the scratching of the nano was mentioned. With less than 1% exchanges that's a non-issue. People should learn to take better care of their stuff and not be so ignorant about using hi-tech equipment like it's a toy.
If it's great, people must own it. If it's not, people can't possibly be relating their own experience, because Apple can do no wrong.
Nice attempt at reinterpretation, not at all what I said or what I implied. But I leave it up to you to misinterpret and misunderstand my post, you've done that much very well. Keep up the good work and continue hiding behind the AC, it suits you perfectly.
...that excitement quickly wore off as users realized the traumatic screen scratching issue...
OK, so the problem was traumatic to 1% of the users.
...thousands of message board threads were started, and it became a major news headline for a few days...
Thousands of message board threads, some headlines and a lawsuit. Which proved nothing, except that there is an extremely vocal minority out there.
...the amazingly low number of units that affected the total shipment....it was less than 1 percent.
So, those that had their products damaged, by their own careless stupidity, were shown to be the tiny minority of units shipped. Could it have been a problem with those few who had trouble and not the product itself? The vast majority didn't have complaints or problems, so how is it that Gundeep Hora concludes that the first generation nano sucked? Apple didn't change anything after all the noise that this tiny minority made. Gundeep Hora's reputation is coming into question here...
As many of us know, MacBooks faced thermal issues not too long ago.
Really? A simple software update fixed the perceived problem, but that makes the MacBooks suck. So sayeth Gundeep Hora, the same person that starts out the article by stating:
It's not that I despise Apple or the wonderful products it showcases year after year...
Nice preface to your FUD and blatantly unbiased attacks against Apple.
The company is so disgustingly used to the idea of recalling/replacing its first generation products, it's almost second nature.
Gundeep Hora just said that only 1% of the nano's were affected and replaced and that the MacBooks had a software update address a perceived problem. Where are all the examples of recalls? One percent does not justify the concept that first generation nanos were replaced, only those, seemingly, owned by the careless and ignorant needed replacement. So where does Gundeep Hora come off making such a vast generalization? Well, regardless of what he claims in his preface, Gundeep Hora obviously does hate Apple and their recent success. How does this article classify as a "featured story" on CoolTechZone? How does the "editor-in-chief" release such garbage? Maybe he just sucks?
R&D --> Production --> Quality Assurance --> Launch --> Marketing and Sales --> Technical Support + Luck (hoping everything works smoothly and there are no serious issues that the company might have missed).
But here's how a typical product cycle works at Apple:R&D --> Production --> Launch --> Marketing and Sales --> Real World Testing (Quality Assurance) --> Recall, Technical Support, Mass Hysteria --> "Re-Release" --> Success (Notice how Apple doesn't need luck. It has already used an early batch of excited loyalists to do real world testing before launching a refined product).
Wow, verifiable facts, I love those. "Mass hysteria" comes from 1% of the users, now that's mass hysteria... I'm sure that Apple does no QA before releasing to the public, I believe Gundeep Hora, he's some kind of expert. I had no idea that they were so lucky. What a hack this moron Gundeep Hora is. Somebody should really reconsider his position.
Ignoring Apple's incompetence over and again is tiring.
This article is tiring. Gundeep Hora's incomepetence is tiring. Those two weak examples of Apple's supposed incompetence aren't sufficient for these extreme anti-Apple sentiments. What has this douchebag got against Apple? Did Steve Jobs run over his cat or something? Sheesh...
It's so funny that the biggest complainers about Apple products are people that generally don't even own an Apple product. When these people post to the Apple message boards, if you ask them simple Apple-centric questions to try and help them with their supposed problems they don't respond or when they do, they respond with things that clearly indicate that they aren't using, and never have used, any Apple products.
I've had four first gen Apple Desktops with zero incidents. I own a first gen iPod that still runs great, yes the battery still works just fine. I have a first gen nano with zero scratches on it, but I also don't carry it around in my pocket with my friggin' keys. I'm on my second first gen Apple laptop with no issues.
Granted personal experience isn't going to define a company, but my experience has never run into any of the problems complained about.
I don't doubt that they probably do, but nobody in that town is going to be complaining much, if at all, when it comes to their childrens' educations. There's also only 2.6% of the population that are economically disadvantaged in that district, so "poverty" isn't an issue either. This area is well off and they usually go along with whatever the board and PTA decide is best for their kids.
In the article they did state that the school district will not be actively monitoring the sites that these kids post to, they will investigate if they receive notification of questionable behavior by other (snitches) concerned students and parents.
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Melted the blanket!?! What the hell kind of blankets is your friend buying?
Tell him to stop being so cheap, invest in natural fibers.
Apple doesn't make the batteries.
You can't really say that this is a problem with Apple hardware. It's a problem with the batteries, not the MacBooks.
Probably a good idea to avoid them...
Sad thing is that Apple gets the bad press over it.
Here's a much more disturbing photo of one of those batteries. It was posted on Accelerate Your Mac on June 15.
What a freakin' joke. They're concerned about violent video game legislation while most of the New Orleans population is still homeless? What a backwards ass state that is...
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Grant Robertson, the author of the article, is using a certain level of sensationalism to push his story. Weird Al never said the phrase "Raw Deal" in his response to the question posed by Tim Sloane of Ijamsville, MD, that was an addition to the story by Grant.
Aside from that Grant goes on in his story to say:Technically this is true and not true at the same time. You own the CD, you license the music contained on that CD and you license the music from iTunes. The terms of the license agreements aren't the same, but you still license both forms of the music. More misrepresentation used to slam Apple...
Why is Slashdot being irresponsible about how they're posting their stories? It seems that sensationalism is the way to try and get hits these days. If it was a story about how Apple is screwing their clients, as is purported by the story here on Slashdot, then it gets people clicking and angry. If it's a story about how the RIAA is screwing people over then it gets people clicking and angry. But a story about how an artist worked out a bad deal with their label, that might not sell here on Slashdot.
People that are complaining about outsourcing are doind so because it affects their livelihoods, the qulaity of the work being produced in the tech industry from oustsourcing is declining and the difficulties associated with trying to communicate with people whose primary language is not English becomes very frustrating when it shouldn't be frustrating.
In Brazil, how do sales of Apple products compare to the sale of other manufacturers?
I haven't heard of any outsourcing to Brazil as of yet.
There has been a lot of outsourcing of tech support/customer service to India from the US. This has created many headaches with people in the US having to deal with people that do not speak English as their primary language and many of those tech support people speaking with very thick accents, which makes it very difficult for many Americans to understand them.
As for coding, it seems that many companies are using the "costs less takes longer" approach when they are using outsourced coders. According to recent reports there is apparently a lot of cutting'n'pasting being done and very little testing done by the vast majority of the outsourced coders. Whether this sort of thing will be causing these companies problems in the future remains to be seen. With copyright law in the US the way that it is, you never know if cutting and pasting will end up in a lawsuit over intellectual property rights anymore, the trend seems to be that it will cost the companies money in the future. It's not so much a lack of cutting edge technologies, but rather poor coding practices and carelessness. Now this might not be the case in Brazil, I don't know. I also don't know if this sort of thing will be rectified in India or operations will merely be cancelled due to cost issues.
"...with similar levels of modifications made as those going from Windows 2003 - Vista."
...another version of "Microsoft sucks"...
And that's the point, the filesystem for Vista is based on the filesystem from 2003 Server, which was first being seeded to beta testers back in 2000. NTFS or New Technology File System is the standard file system of Windows NT and its descendants: Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. WinFS, implemented on top of NTFS, WinFS is a centralized data store for the Windows platform. Sorry I guess that I didn't take the detail far enough. Vista is worse off as it's being built off of the NTFS without the WinFS layer. The Vista file system is a simple extension of the NTFS which exists back to 2000. The same concept as your correlation that OS X is NeXTSTEP.
Since this is a discussion about *software development*...
That's your interpretation of this discussion. I am saying that you cannot ignore the planning stages of development which then lead to PR. You seem to be suggesting that there is no planning stage prior to the PR, which I am telling you is wrong.
I have no interest in what emanates from various companies' PR and marketing departments in a discussion about a development lifecycle.
And this is how you are choosing to ignore the planning stage of the development life-cycle. That's your own issue. The PR doesn't start prior to development. Throwing out your code-base and starting over doesn't justify a new development life-cycle as you are proposing, sorry.
I never said anything as simplistic as you suggest, I am being critical of what I see as a failed schedule by a company that shouldn't be making these kind of mistakes.
Well, not really, following your "reasoning" regarding NeXTSTEP and OS X Vista's filesystem has been being worked on since at least 2000. Keep reading, you'll see why...
Sounds pretty important. But, instead they're basing the file system off the 2003 Server file system. Which was "...first introduced to technical beta testers in mid-2000, it was known by its codename, "Whistler Server"..." which slightly increases your development timeline. Let's be fair, if you're going to insist that OS X is simply NeXTSTEP, which of course, it's got it's heritage in, then let's look at the "full development" cycle of Vista. The file system started being distributed to developers in 2000. Looks more like seven years after all.
Wow, and you aren't buying into the marketing hype? Interesting that you don't appear to mind this little historical fact in the development cycle of this product.
Other features missing:
"Due to scheduling issues, the Windows PowerShell, code-named Monad will not be included in Windows Vista."
"Owing to significant difficulties in getting third-party developers to support the system (particularly due to the lack of support for writing for the Trusted Operating Root using
"Support for Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface was originally slated to be included with Vista, but has been removed due to what Microsoft has described as a lack of support on desktop computers."
NeXTSTEP's final version came out in 1995. When Apple bought NeXT in 1997 it was OpenStep, but that doesn't really matter. Apple also didn't hype their production of OS X in 1997 when they purchased NeXT, so you can't really make the comparison that you are without looking at the marketing machinations of both companies. Microsoft likes to announce things way in advance to get people talking, while Apple generally likes to keep things tightly under wraps until they make their announcements. The two companies work differently than each other, certainly, but you can't simply ignore how they hype their products as that shows quite a bit about how they do business. To ignore the company announcements as not being part of the development cycle is ignorant of the reality of how much progress has to have been made in the planning of the product. You don't develop on a large scale project like this without a lot of planning first, which then allows you to release the hype, if that's the way you do business. I still contend that Microsoft's development schedule from first announcement to actual launch, which is still to be seen, is the true measurement. This software development timeline is embarrassing for them.
Thanks. I don't think that this "community" understands the ramifications of this situation.
I'm not a "journalist" supposedly presenting an "unbiased review". I have made critical comments about a company that I see as needing to take on the role that they should be fulfilling, an industry leader that is creative and innovative.
You'll have to be more clear about this 4 GiB of memory for a "single session of photography". Aperture's entire installation requires "5GB of disk space for application, sample projects, and tutorial". While the iLife suite requires 10GB of available disk space, but that includes photo production, video production, DVD production, music production and Web page development tools. I've built 2 hour DVD projects using DVD Stupio Pro and iDVD which end up needing only about 12 GiBs of space, so I don't know which single photography sessions you're talking about.
I'm not scared about anything with Microsoft. I've come to expect more of the same from them. I'd be ecstatic if they'd finally do the whole thing right. I have to develop for their platform on a daily basis, which is why I've come to be disappointed in them. Please expound on the, I'm guessing, Apple mimicry that you mention. You've read way too much into my criticism of Microsoft, I don't hate Vista, I don't understand why it has taken the largest software development company with the most money in the world this long to produce a product.
The fact that Microsoft has "taken a bit longer" is what I find so troubling. When a company of their size with their revenues and their position isn't forward thinking without some other company doing it first then there's a real problem in the world today. Microsoft should be leading the industry forward with new and innovative designs and concepts, they shouldn't be playing follow the leader with other companies.
Thank you for referencing those quotes, they're great examples to my positions and they really show that I don't have the bias that you claim/assume that I have. Sure I make comparisons between Apple and Microsoft, but I don't appear to make off the cuff comments in either of those quoted posts, aside from the connotation of the word "stolen". I presented a situation in both of those and then expressed my observations.
Sure, there are more configurations, but Microsoft essentially dictates how those hardware configurations interact with the OS. They also don't supply their own drivers, like Apple does. Microsoft leaves driver development up to the third party hardware vendors to figure out. If a driver doesn't function properly under Windows you generally go to the hardware developer site to get a fixed version, not Microsoft.
You are correct, I blew that number out of proportion. However, you are mistaken as to when Microsoft started talking about Vista/Longhorn.
From Wikipedia:
Microsoft first talked about "Longhorn" in July 2001, even before Windows XP's release in October of that year. It was originally expected to ship sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP and "Blackcomb" (now known as Windows "Vienna").
With a supposed 2007 launch, that is still getting pushed back, it'll only be just under six years from first mention to launch and only four years since the first reported launch date. Also with a completely stripped down feature set since most of what they had originally touted it to have won't be present.
For the largest software company in the world with the most monetary resources available to them than any other software company, I find that timeframe amazing, don't you?
I might be missing your point, but it seems that you are saying that US companies are selling their products throughout the world and therefore should offer work to the people of the world because they sell to the world. But then you appear to be saying that the products sold by those companies are pirated in those countries. So, it appears that you are saying that those countries aren't really purchasing the products, they're stealing them? Then, following your logic, I believe, why should those companies offer work in those countries if they make no money there due to piracy?
I think that I may be a bit confused due to your language skills.
Let's hope that this is an increasing trend. The outsourcing of tech and support jobs from the US to India has been destroying the industry.
Several pages about Windows Update technology and Minesweeper don't make for a good review?
Pshaw!
It's amazing that a "hardware" company like Apple can roll out a new OS nearly every year while it takes a "software" company like Microsoft seven to steal all of Apple's ideas...
SyQuest had a great rebate offer on their SyJet drives. They had 1.5GB cartridges when Zip was only 100MB and my machine had a 500MB hard drive. Well, they went bankrupt and out of business before I ever got my rebate check, dirty bastards. Now I can no longer use the thing with any machine/OS as the drivers don't work with OS 9 anymore and I have about 10 inaccessible cartridges sitting in a pile in a corner along with the drive.
Sometimes I fantasize that someday somebody will write drivers for OS X that will allow me to pull my data off them.
I don't understand how they still have a website after all this time...
It sure seems like you don't spend any time on the support pages. If the end user destroys their battery in 18 months then that's their own fault or it's a defective battery, hardly a QA problem. It's a rare occurrence and Apple deals with such issues in a very timely manner. Somehow I and many others have managed to keep ours working for nearly 60 months now with little difference in performance.
The MacBooks weren't overheating, they ran pretty warm until Apple released the software patch. Now those machines run at very reasonable temperatures. People that perceive problems, with the advent of the internet and the anonymity which it provides them feel that they are in the right to blow minor issues completely out of proportion. Then the anti-Apple cultists feel that they are right in reporting it as if it were big news when it's not. There haven't been any recalls, as Gundeep Hora claims. There have been problems which are and have been rectified and addressed in a very timely manner.
Gundeep Hora has totally blown the problems he mentions out of proportion. The battery life of the iPod's weren't even mentioned, I brought that up, the scratching of the nano was mentioned. With less than 1% exchanges that's a non-issue. People should learn to take better care of their stuff and not be so ignorant about using hi-tech equipment like it's a toy.
Nice attempt at reinterpretation, not at all what I said or what I implied. But I leave it up to you to misinterpret and misunderstand my post, you've done that much very well. Keep up the good work and continue hiding behind the AC, it suits you perfectly.
Really? A simple software update fixed the perceived problem, but that makes the MacBooks suck. So sayeth Gundeep Hora, the same person that starts out the article by stating:Nice preface to your FUD and blatantly unbiased attacks against Apple.Gundeep Hora just said that only 1% of the nano's were affected and replaced and that the MacBooks had a software update address a perceived problem. Where are all the examples of recalls? One percent does not justify the concept that first generation nanos were replaced, only those, seemingly, owned by the careless and ignorant needed replacement. So where does Gundeep Hora come off making such a vast generalization? Well, regardless of what he claims in his preface, Gundeep Hora obviously does hate Apple and their recent success. How does this article classify as a "featured story" on CoolTechZone? How does the "editor-in-chief" release such garbage? Maybe he just sucks?
Wow, verifiable facts, I love those. "Mass hysteria" comes from 1% of the users, now that's mass hysteria... I'm sure that Apple does no QA before releasing to the public, I believe Gundeep Hora, he's some kind of expert. I had no idea that they were so lucky. What a hack this moron Gundeep Hora is. Somebody should really reconsider his position.This article is tiring. Gundeep Hora's incomepetence is tiring. Those two weak examples of Apple's supposed incompetence aren't sufficient for these extreme anti-Apple sentiments. What has this douchebag got against Apple? Did Steve Jobs run over his cat or something? Sheesh...
It's so funny that the biggest complainers about Apple products are people that generally don't even own an Apple product. When these people post to the Apple message boards, if you ask them simple Apple-centric questions to try and help them with their supposed problems they don't respond or when they do, they respond with things that clearly indicate that they aren't using, and never have used, any Apple products.
I've had four first gen Apple Desktops with zero incidents. I own a first gen iPod that still runs great, yes the battery still works just fine. I have a first gen nano with zero scratches on it, but I also don't carry it around in my pocket with my friggin' keys. I'm on my second first gen Apple laptop with no issues.
Granted personal experience isn't going to define a company, but my experience has never run into any of the problems complained about.
Sometimes you just have to wonder.
No more over the top than expecting everyone to give it up for a job.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can go and fuck himself!!!
I don't doubt that they probably do, but nobody in that town is going to be complaining much, if at all, when it comes to their childrens' educations. There's also only 2.6% of the population that are economically disadvantaged in that district, so "poverty" isn't an issue either. This area is well off and they usually go along with whatever the board and PTA decide is best for their kids.
In the article they did state that the school district will not be actively monitoring the sites that these kids post to, they will investigate if they receive notification of questionable behavior by other (snitches) concerned students and parents.