I bought a nano about 2 days after it was out, and at that time - there were no cases available for it. Even the apple branded ones that you could order from apple.com would not be available for 2-3 weeks.
This is shoddy planning on Apple's part. I didn't think it would be TOO much of an issue, so I proceeded with my purchase. I also didn't think being placed in an empty pocket (no keys, no change, nothing but the nano) would scratch the screen enough that it is now difficult to read.
I am actually a bit of an Apple fanboy, but the coating on the new device is not nearly strong enough.
I'll be trying the nano/brasso trick soon, and i hope that does some good.
Manufacturing is far from the only cost associated with software. You're just spending your money on humans instead of metal and plastic. Also, the support infrastructure for software tends to increase as user base of the software does, and that costs money.
So because one machine was defective their entire line has got to be bad? That seems like faulty logic to me.
I don't care what type of product you get, sometimes there is the opportunity for there to be defects.
Oh, and so it's cleared up now - I'm not a mac apologist. I actually don't own any apple hardware. I do have respect for the company, however, and am considering making the switch.
I hope your brothers hardware issue works out, getting a faulty piece of equipment (regardless of manufacturer) is a pain.
Not impossible, but it would be a tricky transition for them.
Apple charges a very very large markup on their hardware, I don't think the margin on their software would be nearly as high.
Beyond that, one of the advantages of them controlling hardware and software is the fact that they can do more rigorous quality control, because they KNOW the configuration your machine will be running. This leads to the disadvantage of having a limited and more costly hardware base, but that is why Apple products "just work".
Personally, I think moving Mac OS to mainstream machines with unpredictable hardware would dramatically lower the quality of the software, and I would hate to see that. I would much rather have an Apple piece of hardware that I know was tested well with the operating system on it.
I suppose that viewpoint will put me in the minority here.
"All you need to know about OSS: CTRL + "Scroll up" in FF shrinks text....."
Yup, because the downward scroll is the most natural and familiar to people and that increases text size, as would be the most common want of the user. It's called making software comfortable and usable... New rule - if you're going to target criticism at something, be informed enough to understand at least the basics of it.
Overall, good troll though - you managed to avoid making any form of valid point and got a lot of suckers like me to respond.
boycott: to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a person, store, or organization) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions
Read this, realize your an idiot, go away.
Its another way to get you to buy a subscription, another ploy to flee the predator.
Not that thats a bad thing, supporting a site like slashdot is a good thing to do. (Posting this after browsing slashdot ad-free)
I STRONGLY disagree. I have run Konqueror (which is an admittedly fine browser) next to Moz and I continue to use Moz (or Moz derivatives : go galeon). I even use Moz on win32 as opposed to IE. I have yet to see a piece of functionality it is lacking that I need.
The only complaints I seem to hear about Moz is that it won't render site X, which 9/10 times is do to poor coding on that particular site. Keep in mind, correctly rendering code != a bug. Quite the opposite actually.
Anyway, kudos Konq team, keep up the great work, your one of the better projects among the open source world.
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I bought a nano about 2 days after it was out, and at that time - there were no cases available for it. Even the apple branded ones that you could order from apple.com would not be available for 2-3 weeks. This is shoddy planning on Apple's part. I didn't think it would be TOO much of an issue, so I proceeded with my purchase. I also didn't think being placed in an empty pocket (no keys, no change, nothing but the nano) would scratch the screen enough that it is now difficult to read. I am actually a bit of an Apple fanboy, but the coating on the new device is not nearly strong enough. I'll be trying the nano/brasso trick soon, and i hope that does some good.
Manufacturing is far from the only cost associated with software. You're just spending your money on humans instead of metal and plastic.
Also, the support infrastructure for software tends to increase as user base of the software does, and that costs money.
So because one machine was defective their entire line has got to be bad? That seems like faulty logic to me.
I don't care what type of product you get, sometimes there is the opportunity for there to be defects.
Oh, and so it's cleared up now - I'm not a mac apologist. I actually don't own any apple hardware. I do have respect for the company, however, and am considering making the switch.
I hope your brothers hardware issue works out, getting a faulty piece of equipment (regardless of manufacturer) is a pain.
Not impossible, but it would be a tricky transition for them.
Apple charges a very very large markup on their hardware, I don't think the margin on their software would be nearly as high.
Beyond that, one of the advantages of them controlling hardware and software is the fact that they can do more rigorous quality control, because they KNOW the configuration your machine will be running. This leads to the disadvantage of having a limited and more costly hardware base, but that is why Apple products "just work".
Personally, I think moving Mac OS to mainstream machines with unpredictable hardware would dramatically lower the quality of the software, and I would hate to see that. I would much rather have an Apple piece of hardware that I know was tested well with the operating system on it.
I suppose that viewpoint will put me in the minority here.
Just a quick response to your sig :
"All you need to know about OSS: CTRL + "Scroll up" in FF shrinks text....."
Yup, because the downward scroll is the most natural and familiar to people and that increases text size, as would be the most common want of the user. It's called making software comfortable and usable... New rule - if you're going to target criticism at something, be informed enough to understand at least the basics of it.
Overall, good troll though - you managed to avoid making any form of valid point and got a lot of suckers like me to respond.
boycott: to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a person, store, or organization) usually to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions Read this, realize your an idiot, go away.
Its another way to get you to buy a subscription, another ploy to flee the predator.
Not that thats a bad thing, supporting a site like slashdot is a good thing to do. (Posting this after browsing slashdot ad-free)
I STRONGLY disagree. I have run Konqueror (which is an admittedly fine browser) next to Moz and I continue to use Moz (or Moz derivatives : go galeon). I even use Moz on win32 as opposed to IE. I have yet to see a piece of functionality it is lacking that I need.
The only complaints I seem to hear about Moz is that it won't render site X, which 9/10 times is do to poor coding on that particular site. Keep in mind, correctly rendering code != a bug. Quite the opposite actually.
Anyway, kudos Konq team, keep up the great work, your one of the better projects among the open source world.
(with an edge of distaste for ignorant pro-choice'rs)
So its a step away from tyranny would be to take that choice away from the people involved?!?
Please, re-read your post and realize your a hypocrite. Thank you.