On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hey it is a best guess and I stated it that way > > Yes, you did, but Tom didn't; his message assumed that it was a fact. > That's > why I responded to him and not to you. But you went after my point not anything that Tom said. If you spend all your time knocking down points just because Tom said something puts you in same category as Tom just with a different windmill to tilt at. > > > > We bitch when Apple screws up too > > Yes, but Tom bitches differently for Apple and MS. MS's mistakes all have > one of two possible causes (or, in this case, both: he started with cause 1 > and, when that failed, tried to switch to cause 2): > > 1. MS is evil and did it on purpose. > > 2. MS is a bunch of complete idiots. > > He never characterizes Apple's mistakes this way. > Apple has done fewer idiotic things to deserve it. This is just a leftover first generation Zune headache. M$ has the bad habit of taking a try or two to get the software right after they ship. Apple improves overtime but they ship with better running software. M$ ends up with good products but it takes them too darn long -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
