How about complaining about a product you get for free? When you aren't even one of the people getting the product?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, David K Watson <[email protected]>wrote: > Why is it that servers not getting activation keys to the beta testers > does not counts as "screwing up the activation keys"? The phrase > simply says that there was a problem with the keys, not that the > wrong keys were sent. > > Also, if you want to compare MS to Apple, the proper comparison is > OS vs OS. Funnily enough, OS X doesn't have activation keys. > > I didn't mind the MobileMe problems, which lasted maybe a week for > one of the issues and two weeks for the other one, because Apple > apologized profusely and gave me 3 months free each time. A > half year's free service for a few weeks of subpar performance was > a very good deal for me. > > Arstechnica.com reports that they screwed up the activation keys. >>> >> >> Yawn. >> >> We can trust you to misstate pretty much everything. It does get old, >> though, a little. >> >> They didn't "screw up the keys". The problem isn't in the keys. Or in >> Windows. The problem is in the servers getting the keys to the beta >> testers. >> >> >> It's a good thing that Apple is so good at this kind of thing, otherwise >> they might also have had server problems rolling out new products. Hey, >> wait >> a minute! >> >> And, oh, yes, the beta works without the activation key anyway. Unlike the >> iPhones that couldn't be activated. >> > > > ************************************************************************* > > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
