<OT> arrogant Apple

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Ignazio Palmisano wrote:
> Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
>> marc wrote:
>>> Eberhard Roloff said...
>>> I pay for Windows, or have paid, and have to deal with it regularly, 
>>> and the direct support is woeful. At least with mature FOSS, you have 
>>> somewhere to report things and await a response. This is far, far 
>>> better than the non-FOSS world in OS-land. (I don't know enough about 
>>> Apple's support mechanisms to comment, but I'd to know more.)
>>>   
>> You won't get any better joy from Crapple than you will with 
>> Microshaft.  The former are even more arrogant than the latter, and 
>> that's saying something.  Stick with FOSS.
>>
> 
> More arrogant than Microsoft I don't know, so far I only reported one 
> problem to Apple

Your ONE problem is too miniscule to have an opinion. Yet
you do. Now that's arrogant.

> (an external hard drive that wouldn't turn on after an 
> update, though the same hard drive worked nicely on other machines and 
> on the same macbook booted with Kubuntu live - which worked a dream, 
> btw), and I got feedback from them, not too quickly but not arrogant 
> either. Well at least I wasn't asked to restart the machine and see if 
> the problem persisted...
> 
> Just 2c so that the list cannot be told to be FUDding like other sources...

It's actually you that are making the grave mistake of thinking your
one single problem is representative in any statistics. It's not.
Come back when you actually have sources worth counting.

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