[MacDV] Re: The 20inch LCD Conspiracy

[Gerhard Kuhn]

I agree with everything you said and I am a 100% OS X user but find the 
tactics used by Apple offensive for reasons of principle.  "Upgrading" 
to Jaguar (yes, I finally shelled out the dough) at full cost has left 
me with a bitter taste though I still buy Apple but certainly  look 
much closer at alternatives in the marketplace than I would have 
previously.

Gerhard
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:54  AM, Bobbo wrote:

> Mike jumped in:
>>
>> Why all of this condemnation for Apple doing what is in its best
>> interests - namely to move its current customer base into the future 
>> of
>> its product line?
>>
>> Apple's made it no secret that as far as it is concerned, OS 9 is 
>> dead.
>>  Yet people keep finding all these "sneaky" things they're doing to
>> "trick" poor little OS 9 users to switch to OS X.
>>
>> Switch or don't switch - Apple probably won't care.  But expecting
>> Apple to keep sitting on the fence just because some others do is
>> pointless.
>
> IMO, what Apple does best is create alternatives, superior in 
> reliability
> and ease of use, to the prevailing platform. It also has shown itself 
> to be
> creative in design and form factor, usually to the good, occasionally 
> not.
> But most transitions have been voluntary, at least for several years.
> Apple's track record on system upgrades has been horrendous, with most
> systems since 7.0 being buggy and problematic.
>
> I've gone on record before objecting to Apple's decision to make new
> machines unbootable in X, and how it has cost them my future business 
> until
> X supports current choices in software and hardware. This is of no 
> concern
> to you, if you choose not to "sit on the fence," and many people are 
> just
> pleased as punch with X. But to those of us in the audio business, not 
> so.
> I run DECK 2.6 for audio, because it does what it does a whole lot more
> reliably (if less flamboyantly) than BIAS' version 3.0. I make my 
> living
> with it and it is critical for me to be able to boot into 9. X 
> continues to
> deliver shabby compatibility, if at all, with such things as Epson 
> drivers
> for their newer printers and, while this is the fault of Epson (there 
> are
> many), it leaves me with the choice of using the mandated X, or losing
> functionality.
>
> Do what you want, Mike, and enjoy X. But don't be so quick to defend
> Apple's strongarm insistence that the rest of us march to its drummer. 
> That
> sounds more like a M$ tactic to me.
>
> B
>
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Gerhard Kuhn
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