I'm sorry, but bashing MS over this while praising Apple assumes
that Apple
finds all bugs in all third-party components, and I think I can
pretty well
assure you that it doesn't.
I question this assertion. "Bashing MS over this while praising
Apple" does
not assume that Apple finds *all* such bugs, it only assumes that
Apple is
somewhat better than MS at it. Isn't this something you yourself
think is correct
(see below)? Putting aside Apple, bashing MS over this assumes that MS
carelessly missed something that it really shouldn't have, something
some
of us believe that others don't.
You can say that Apple does a better job, and that is probably
correct. But
they aren't perfect, which makes me think that the MS-bashing over
this is
rather hypocritical.
Again, why does Apple have to be "perfect"? The argument does not
depend on absolute conditions. If "Apple does a better job", why is it
hypocritical to want Microsoft to improve?
Here, I think you are saying that Apple does a better job overall, but
MS
shouldn't be criticized for this one mistake. Considered as a single
incident,
this again boils down to the question as to whether the mistake is one
that
proper testing should have caught. Regardless of that, if you agree
that
Apple is better at catching these bugs than MS then it should be easy to
understand that this particular bug feels like a legitimate part of a
larger
pattern (whether it actually is or not) and therefore triggers the
frustration
with MS that a lot of us have as a consequence of that larger pattern.
In other words, the MS criticism is still somewhat justified, just
misdirected.
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