He-LLO, Steve! Security through obscurity doesn’t work! How many times do we have to be burned by your software before you learn that?
He-LLO, Steve! Security through obscurity doesn’t work! How many times do we have to be burned by your software before you learn that?
It’s no wonder that Leopard has been dubbed “MacOS Vista” due to its major release bugs. Apparently they are taking a page from the software engineering book from Microsoft lately. (And I don’t mean Steve McConnel. 😉 )
Oh well, there’s always Linux. 🙂
Well, I didn’t have good luck with Ubuntu’s latest in automatic (and non-disable-able) video configuration, but of course, there’s plenty of other distros that work fine. 🙂
And the Ubuntu people may well have fixed that problem already, since it was high on their priority list a couple months ago.
I just read yet another Apple cock-up, this one is with monitor quality control on the iMac.
Apparently since the introduction of the latest 20″ and 24″ iMacs, there hasn’t been a single week where there hasn’t been major defects produced (the screen doesn’t have the same amount of light from top to bottom, noticeably – conspiracy theorists use that to explain the new dark Leopard background) on the assembly line, according to information on the official Apple Support forum. The discussion, of course, has since been locked by Apple and Apple no longer answers support on this issue publicly. iMacs returned because of this defect have been issued a 15% restocking fee, because Apple refuses to admit the problem exists.
If you’re not familiar with the iMac (or more likely, the readers are unfamiliar) this is major because although its a desktop the monitor is integrated as part of the so-called “CPU” case.
/me is very happy with the quality of his iPod nano 3G though. 🙂
Sounds like usual corporate behavior to me. Apple may have a large and fanatical following, but it’s still a big corporation, and acts like one.
The thing is, these products have a price premium and/or are supposedly “superior” to Microsoft or PC compatibles respectively. You’d expect to at least see an increase in quality, or failing that, to at least “serve the customers first” and accept their returns for a major defect.
Apple has been accused of arrogance before. And not without reason.
Speaking of which, have you seen the latest on the Fake Steve Jobs blog? Priceless. (It no doubt is a hoax, a very convincing one though.)
I’ve never read it, but I know the site is a hoax — some journalist figured out who was writing it a few months ago. If there’s something particularly interesting on there, post a link.
Basically, in the spirit of the “Think Secret” takedown by Apple, he’s made up (apparently) a story about how Apple’s lawyers are harassing him, in straight-out-of-the-movies scenes, into taking down the blog. This part he’s writing as David Lyons(?), and he actually had slashdot and many other blogs (and myself) fooled until comments started pointing out interesting giveaway details. It’s a series of posts starting about a week or so ago, enough to read fairly quickly though so far. Pretty entertaining, though I guess the entertainment value is even greater if you started out being fooled by them!
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