[X4U] Apple QC slipping?

[Ed Gould]

On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

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> On Dec 12, 2008, at 7:49 AM, zapcat wrote:
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>> a friend of mine and I were comparing notes the other day and we  
>> concluded that apple's quality control seems to be slipping.
>>
>> neither of us expects any company to be perfect right out of the  
>> box, but we think that Apple's quality is not at the level we're  
>> accustomed to.
>
> Your experience certainly hasn't been shown by market research.   
> While the customer satifaction rating for all computer makers has  
> been going down, for Apple it has been going up:
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> http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic110696.html
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>

Randy (and others),

The "quality" (as far as hardware goes) seems "OK" to me. The  
software is a different issue. I do not care for the INTEL decision  
while it might be "OK" for some it is basically a corporate sell out  
of all MAC owners AFAIAC. When faced with a similar issue at least  
one manufacture went out and "invented" a better way and the company  
is much better for it. Apples sellout to INTEL was a techies  
shortsightedness and we will all pay for it soon, IMO.

Ed