Apple delays global launch of iPod mini

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Who do you trust ?: ---Funny, I've got a 1st generation 5G iPod with a battery
that's just
fine.---

But the rest of iPod owners are not happy with (this is not
my opinion - read reviews). Maybe 0-2 hours battery is fine
for you ? tell me, please.
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---Apple sold a product, a problem arose with it years
later,
and they provided a solution for it. What else were they
supposed to do? Should they have the ability to read the
future? ---

It happened because Apple did not care about customers
but profits.
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----The components are generally of a high quality. The
quality
extends beyond the actual hardware though. You're paying
for
design. You're paying for a vastly superior software
interface
and architecture. You're paying for R&D and innovation.
That's
all part of the quality equation.---

Apple?s basic warranty is the lowest (1 year), the cost of
extended warranty is the highest. Logically, it can be
explained that Apple?s parts are not good. It does not make
sense to provide a low warranty (below a typical OEM) at
high cost if parts are really high quality.

Plus, data-loss feature of OS X makes it dangerous to use.
Who cares about quality of a computer if you can lose all
your data? Who cares about the design of a NOT-reliable
Mac? Probably Steve Jobs decided that if crackers do not
touch Mac ? there is something wrong with Mac. Therefore,
he decided for selected customers his data-loss unique
feature to experience fun of PC users when they get
viruses.
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---When have they ever not done this? Why bring up
theoretical situations? What if monkeys fly out of their
butts?---

For example, G3 and OS X incompatibilities. Apple LIED to
G3 users that they can run OS X with no problems. The
result ? Apple still did not provide the promised
compensation to its victims - only promises. Is it great care
or greediness? But Apple would never do this without ?help?
(class-actions). Thus, what ever you say ? but by Apple?s
deeds - Apple?s care about customers, Mac quality is one
of the worse in the industry.
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---I've used a Mac for the last decade and have never had
any trouble doing what I need to do, nor interacting with
other people using different types of computers. The mixed
network (Mac, Linux, Windows) at work is just fine. What
did you mean, exactly? ---

Can you upgrade your Mac for the price of PC-parts? No.
Why? Because Apple is a niche-market monopoly. You also
cannot change the case, motherboard, processor (to non-
Apple), ? You even cannot choose a mouse when you buy
your Mac (Apple force 100% Mac users to buy its Stone-
Ages-one-button mouse. You call it ?good business
model?; I am ? abuse of power). The reason ? Apple is a
niche-market monopoly.
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---Ah, so you believe in the tyranny of the majority.---

I was talking about common sense. For example, talking
about a country ? has only one meaning ? the typical citizen
(the majority), the typical lifestyle (the majority), etc. Do
you see the difference?
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---Then you believe that Windows is the best OS out there.
Then you believe
that Britney Spears is the greatest singer ever. I don't care
what
the masses are doing, I'll carve my own path, thank you.---

Thus, you do not care about MS monopoly = you support it;
that means that you do not care about global power abuse
and it leads to a question - do you not care about neo-
fascism or you will let them go?
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---Define success. Is it money? Happiness? Creativity?
Love?
Neither seems particularly happy. Gates has more money,
but
Jobs will certainly never go hungry. Jobs wins hands down
as far
as his creative endeavors go. I don't know enough about
the
personal life of either to speculate on the last factor. ---

If you did not read books about Steve Jobs - rent the movie
? ?Pirates of Silicon Valley? and you?ll have some
imagination about who is Steve Jobs. Or you may ask his
former employees too. Steve Jobs is a dictator who is
greedy for money and abuse of power (very polite words
about him). He also wanted worldwide monopoly but he
lost it to Bill Gates. Yes, Steve Jobs has creativity but it?s
worth only 3% of the market now. Apple is not MS
competitor anymore, but Linux.; Posted by: Vily Clay Posted on: 03/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use