Re: Macs "just work?" What a joke!

In article <1152909109.912841.270010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Baker wrote:
In article <1152895913.306267.70730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

C Lund wrote:
In article <1152645466.502190.184820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
C Lund wrote:
C Lund still runs around yammering "Macs just work."
And in general, Macs do just that. Doesn't mean they don't
occasionally fail as well.
They fail far more often than you and your fellow Mac Advocates will
admit to.

Not anywhere near as often as you want them to.

You may now demonstrate how you determined that I "want" Macs to fail,
and how you determined how often I "want" them to fail.

"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,
Not much work at all.
Unless you're wanting to whine about Windows, then it's a horrendous
amount of work.

Not on the mac, is isn't.

A guy who used Macs for 22 years disagrees with you.

A guy who wasn't clever enough to do regular backups or find the very
first link on Google which had the precise answer to his email
question...

Why do you keep telling this lie? He did do backups. Backups can
be done from within iTunes, but Apple doesn't tell you that they're
inadequate, that they don't back up both files you need to have
everything restored.

iTunes doesn't do backups. What he referred to as a "backup" is in fact
a xml file that iTunes creates for other programs to access iTunes data.

A proper backup is simply to backup one's entire home folder.


One should not have to Google to find out the proper way to backup a
system. The vendor should tell you.

The Google things is referring to his claim that you can't get his
preferred mbox format mail files out of Apple Mail since they changed
the format that Mail uses for messages. The very first link when
searching for "mbox elmx" gives the answer he was looking for that Apple
Mail *can* produce mbox format files for him.


Besides that, iTunes is at fault for having such a crappy, convoluted
way to save its data in two separate places.

It doesn't save its data in two separate place for no reason Edwin. It
uses one file for internal purposes and creates a second for other
programs to access iTunes data. It is precisely the kind of transparency
he was talking about.
.

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