while wearing flip flops....

Jaime Solorza
Wireless Systems Architect
915-861-1390

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> I remember telling a customer he should either learn how to configure his
> AirPort himself, get AppleCare, or get a regular router like a Linksys or
> Netgear with a web GUI if he expected his ISP to provide step-by-step phone
> support.
>
> He said he would go out and buy a non-Apple router.
>
> He came back with a TimeMachine.
>
> That's another thing I hate about Apple, they have to use special names
> for ordinary things, so people don't compare prices.  So you don't have a
> router, you have an AirPort.  You don't have an external hard drive, you
> have a TimeMachine.
>
> But just like some people only shop at WalMart, some people only shop for
> electronics at the Apple Store.  Probably the same people who buy all their
> groceries at Whole Foods.
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Prince
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 1:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Customer equipment
>
> No doubt.
>
> The least they could do is to give it a web GUI. Beyond me why it has to
> be some proprietary interface.
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 5/16/2015 10:37 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>
>> On 5/16/15 10:17, Bill Prince wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Plus, for reasons that are not clear to me, Apple has to change the way
>>> the stupid AirPort admin tool works every month or two. So even if you
>>> knew how to set it up in August; come September it's a whole new ball
>>> game.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Software developers need to do something.
>>
>> ~Seth
>>
>
>
>

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