[access-uk] Re: Apple's Steve Jobs admits 'we are not perfect' - Telegraph
- From: Jonathan <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:23:16 +0100
Oh dear! What have I started?!
Personally, I don't think that the iPhone or anything Apple is
particularly bad in itself.
I've used an ipod touch and I think it's well made. What bothers me is
the "fanboy" attitudes of people who think that each and every product
made by Apple is lovingly hand-crafted out of organic tofu in a
Starbucks in California, rather than the enormous Chinese sweatshop
which has been the subject of several news reports of high suicide
rates and appalling conditions.
Also, the attitudes on official Apple forums are unbelievable
sometimes. My partner had problems with Snow Leopard after she
upgraded and the disk became corrupt in a way that the standard tools
could not repair, even from the boot disk. The solution from the Apple
forums? Spend £80 on DiskWarrior. Fortunately, a bit of Googling found
a simple low-level command line repair which did the job.
One it was repaired, I noticed the disk was full (it was a rogue log
file). So I did a find files, and wanted to sort by size. Something
pretty basic.
Again, I was told buy a £50 bit of software to enable this most basic
of functions. Once again, googling showed me a simple command line
alternative.
They call it the Apple Tax - add £200 onto a lump of plastic and
people will buy it. It's like people who buy Evian water. Which is why
it says naive when you hold it up to a mirror.
My point being that no-one was really keeping Apple on their toes, and
at some point that was bound to come back and bite them.
Anyway, off-topic rant over!
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