<OT> arrogant Apple

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Odd wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Is it _THAT_ time of the month already!

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