I'm not "complaining about a product you get for free" that I
don't even get. That would be Tom (about windows 7 beta)
and Chris (about MobileMe). Tom at least has the excuse
that he supports many Windows machines and needs to
know what is coming down the pipe.
What I did was to first point out that there was a falsehood
(calling something a misstatement when it isn't), then to note
that a OS-to-OS comparison doesn't hold and give a fairly
typical example of how Apple handles its mistakes.
In any case, what's the matter with complaining? Obviously, you
don't "get" Tom, yet you complain about him all the time.
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.
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