civilized ku # 468 ~ screw 'em, screw 'em all

Evening light ~ in the Adirondack PARK - Au Sable Forks, NY • click to embiggenSomeone claiming to be a "certified Apple technician .... working on Apple products since 1984" left a long comment on yesterday's entry, civilized ku # 467. The comment was posted using an alias and no link to any site was entered, so the comments are from an "anonymous" someone who may or may not be what he claims to be.

In any event, he took issue with much of my entry stating that it was "very interesting if not mostly wrong". Well, IMO, his comments were not very interesting and they were mostly wrong.

I have neither time nor the inclination to point out all of the errors and the from-my-experience inaccuracies but here are a couple of the more obvious ones:

He stated, "I have never, in all my years doing what I do, had a problem installing Mac software being OS or application. All you need do is take your time and once things start leave them alone till done. Simple." Oh yeah, check this out. And, consider the well known issue as mentioned by Mike C - "I and thousands of others were having cornaries after upgrading to Snow Leopard last summer when suddenly our Epson printers would only run on a Gutenprint driver - impossible to use for photo printing."

He also stated that outdated software/hardware is "Just a fact of life" because he "just purchased a new MacBook Pro with which I replaced my 3 year old MacBook Pro. I started saving this morning for my next MacBook Pro." Apparently he is not bothered at all by planned obsolescence and all of its attendant waste - waste of energy, waste of resources, and, of course, the issue of waste disposal, all issues that result in environmental degradation.

He also stated that the iTune requirement "is a bunch of dunky dust" Well, not so according to Apple. It is only a "bunch of dunky dust" if, as he states, you "use it with the internal apps forever without ever touching the iTunes store ... [B]ut (and there is always a but) since you cannot get apps any where else you are limiting yourself. Yep, sure. That's a solution. Limit yourself.

And, FYI, Mr. Apple tech, I don't have an Amazon account. I do buy online but I have never been required to open an account to do so. I have a TV but I can watch DVDs and broadcast programming without having to open an account. And, yes, I pay a fee to have this blog, but I could have a blog without opening an account / paying a fee (blogspot and others) if I choose to do so.

To sum it all up, the commenter sounds like nothing more than a shill / apologist for the computer software / hardware purveyors who would like nothing more than to keep us all on the merry-go-round / treadmill of endless upgrades.

Comments

[scott]

There are a lot of Apple religious zealots out there.

Apple generally makes pretty good stuff, but it is not without its flaws.

[edski (again)]

WOW! My humble apologies. I thought you were misinformed about the iPad and was only trying to give a different perspective and to offer you my old Leopard software disk since it was discontinued and because I have upgraded to Snow Leopard. Now I can see that I was wrong. I find your response to my post remarkably myopic and unnecessarily cruel, self serving and hurtful. I said nothing that was not true (from my experience) and only offered a helping hand to someone who was struggling I thought. But now I can see I was wrong and that you don't need or want any help.
Good luck with your Photography.