What a disaster. Some things really are best forgotten.
]]>Apple has done some good things, and is certainly capable of doing more, but this is the sort of thing that makes early adopters nervous, and the “next big thing” from Apple may flop as a result. this is going to hit the forums and it won’t be forgotten.
Apple should release OSX for the masses and Microsoft should sell Office for Linux. They would be major products, but the corporate paranoia won’t let it happen.
I don’t have to worry about the iPhone because you can’t buy or use much of anything built in the 21st century here.
]]>It’s a shame, really. I got to see the iPhone in action while I was standing around waiting for the cops to figure out that the bad guy had gotten away (six hours to search, re-search, and search again my apartment complex before they finally figured out that, doh, the dude was *gone*?!). Lady I was standing next to worked at Apple, and she and her husband were passing their iPhone back and forth getting updates from both people inside the complex who were locked in, and from the news services. That is one slick phone. But frankly, until a CDMA/EVDO version comes out on the Sprint network, ain’t a chance in hell I’m going to buy one. (Sprint right now has the fastest cellular broadband and the least restrictive policies for its use, though it’s not available everywhere that AT&T’s EDGE network is available).
]]>It’s no skin off my back; I don’t own anything from Apple. But there certainly seems to be an epidemic these days of wealthy executives who haven’t a clue how to wield power to their own advantage. This one is stupid enough on Apple’s part that one could even imagine they had advice from Republicans…
]]>Drivers is the real problem. Inkjets are basically rebuilt with every cartridge purchase, so they last until some plastic bit breaks. There are still people who are using tractor-fed dot-matrix printers for forms, and they don’t want to replace forms as well as printers.
]]>Of course that’s not why business is avoiding Vista. They’re avoiding Vista because they can’t run Vista on much of their already-existing hardware and don’t have the budget to replace the non-Vista-compatible hardware just because Microsoft released a new OS. So it goes…
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