Re: Macs "just work?" What a joke!
- From: Jim Polaski <jpolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:49:51 -0500
In article <1152476859.093889.215270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim Polaski wrote:
In article <1152461140.414849.246550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
C Lund still runs around yammering "Macs just work."
Here's a dose of reality for him and others like him:
"And what about those wonderful Apple programs that I haven't
replaced with open-source alternatives? I loved iPhoto until my iPhoto
database got corrupted one day, and I lost all my ratings, keywords,
and albums because that information is stored in an undocumented binary
black hole. Yeah yeah, I know about AlbumData.xml. That has its own
problems, and in my case it was already corrupted by the time iPhoto
noticed. I'll give them some credit for trying."
"Similarly, I loved iTunes until my iTunes database got corrupted, too.
Once again, I lost all my ratings and about two dozen well-thought-out
interlocking "smart" playlists. And once again, all of the
irreplaceable metadata was stored in an undocumented binary black hole.
Yeah yeah, the XML backup again. iTunes even helpfully offered to
restore from it... except that it didn't restore any of my
aforementioned metadata, so it's not really a backup, is it? "A"
for effort, "D-" for implementation."
"In many ways, the tale of my switch is more of the same old story. Mac
OS X was "free enough" to keep me using something that was not in
my long-term best interest. But as I stood in the Apple store last
weekend and drooled over the beautiful, beautiful hardware, all I could
think was how much work it would take to twiddle with the default
settings, install third-party software, and hide all the commercial
tie-ins so I could pretend I was in control of my own computer. Beauty
is in the eye of the beholder, and to my eye Apple isn't beautiful
anymore. I've worked around it or ignored it for a long time, but
eventually the bough breaks."
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks
The real problem is he doesn't know what "Backup" is and deserves what
happened.
You mean he's a software developer who has used Macs for 22 years
without ever finding out what a backup is? Are you sure you want to
make Mac users out to be so stupid?
You'd like to make all Mac users look stupid and you're trying, with
this post, to try and diss the Mac's ease of use, when the problem
appears to be the user, even a developer, who wasn't smart enough to
have back-up of his iPhoto and iTunes. That perhaps because as a
developer, he thought he didn't need to since he knows how to manage his
computer. One can only guess. But others in comments on the blog
chastised him for no backup as well, a fact you ever so easily glossed
over to try and make one of your useless points.
You're the one who wants to paint with the broad brush here, dissing the
Mac as not having "ease of use" which of course, this is not really
about.
He *easily* used the apps, iPhoto and iTunes, but could have just as
easily backed them up.
You're still eddie-lost at your best, and this is a very weak effort on
any trolling meter.
--
Regards,
JimP
"The measure of a man is what he will do while
expecting that he will get nothing in return!"
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