[BITList] holier than thou

[CT's]

?mike

welcome to the club --- 

I don't have problems with windows 7, at half the price of the "holier than thou" malus domestica........................

in fact computer life under w7 has become rather boring. 

after >20 years, microsoft appear to have produced an operating system requiring little or no operator attention!

HOWEVER, from what I gather - all is not singing and dancing in appleville! [big gasp].

Problems with the Mac promised land
by Tom Krazit 
  a.. I've definitely learned something in recent weeks about reacting to the inevitable problems that will happen in life--how it can be possible to turn a problem into a huge opportunity, but also how a problem can become an even bigger problem overnight with neglect.
Perhaps it was inevitable for Apple this year, as the nearly unprecedented iPhone hype from this summer was followed by a surge in Mac shipments. Peeved by their experiences upgrading to Leopard, some high-profile Apple customers have taken to the Internet in recent weeks to complain, suggesting that Apple is leading them on with the brand promise of the Mac.



It's never clear in the early going exactly how many people as a whole run into problems with Macs, since things get quickly blown out of proportion under the intense scrutiny paid to Apple. But the basic complaint seems to be: this ain't what we thought it would be. Buggy upgrades? Security issues? This is why we switched to the Mac in the first place, right? 

That's the image Apple wants people of have of the Mac: the anti-Windows. The clever Mac vs. PC commercials underscore that promise, pointing out some of the early problems with Windows Vista and smugly implying that Macs are free from such frustrations.

The problem is that's simply not true. Mac owners will encounter problems during the life of the product, maybe not as many as Windows owners, but frustrating, on-hold-with-tech-support types of problems will happen. Apple sets itself up for this kind of backlash with a holier-than-Windows marketing strategy if people run into some of the very problems they are trying to escape, such as blue screens of death. But how big a problem is this?


ct 

PS  it's been very quiet lately - let the crusade begin.


From: Michael Feltham 
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:56 AM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] more Error 0x800C0133


Colin,

The reason he feels generous is because we don't have problems with Apple !

Mike
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On 13 Oct 2010, at 15:21, s14engine wrote:

hugh
john must be in a generous mood today - deeming to respond to a non-apple problem.................................!
ct
FYI - this may be of help:-
 
 



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