> Again you are pining for the parallel port. Very few people want to take their > computers apart. Service is easy to get and priced reasonably. Apple routinely waves > fees and offers huge trade-in discounts. By giving up on making some of their products > easy to open Apple reduced costs, made the product much smaller, and increased battery > life... > >> Your futuristic nightmare isn't for people who don't have unlimited budgets to buy >> new toys and peripherals every year, or who don't have businesses that can deduct the >> toys' cost in their taxes. No ports + odd SIM card + only AT&T 3G US frequency = >> fewer sales. > > Why should innovation stop just because you won't or can't pay for it? That's very > self-centered. The rest of us want innovation. In fact we love innovation.
Spoken like a Windows FB who can't find the power switch. Parallel sucks, so did ADB. People buy cheap computers because they're cheap, and expensive computers because they should be better. Lots of us have friends who help with maintenance and repairs. Many others, like me, work alone and either do their own repairs or have friends or user groups who help. Repair shops are best avoided as dangerous to our wallets.
I buy Macs because they're [supposed to be] well designed and built. Apple touted ease of replacing drives with the G4, G5, Mac Pros. They made it easy to swap out hard drives in the notebooks to remedy hard drive "shrinkage". Now notebooks are sealed--WTF??!!! Even a novice can easily change the HD in an older MacBook. Changing RAM in a unibody MacBook Pro could void the warranty? WTF?? Unibody reduced cost is BS--it increased the bottom line for repair shops. After all, somebody has to open the notebooks, just not you.
Apple repaired our iBook 3 times, replacing the mobo and two displays. They didn't charge the first two times, but charged a flat rate of around $300 the last time. Then the AC charger DC in plug broke off in the port. I gave it to a friend who has two broken iBooks [can't afford a new Mac] and wants to try to put together one that works. Many others had similar problems--Apple had recalls on those issues.
As someone who has been on the leading edge of technology for years, I contrast the difference between flashy and useful. The iPad is only flashy now. When it's released it might be more attractive, but, for now, no. Looks more like Steve's last gasp.
Oh goody, a large unprotected glass tablet in a vulnerable pocket!! iPad vs. Rock -- rock wins.
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