On 26 Aug 2008, at 21:49, tgies wrote:
There are plenty of things to criticise Apple about. This doesn't
feel like
one of them.
It is not totally unreasonable to expect that an incompatible USB
peripheral is not going to totally wedge the entire system.
It is not unreasonable to expect that an operating system that was
EOLed in 2000 (OS 9) might have a bug in its handling of a standard
(USB 2.0) that wasn't released until 2000. The prosecution is saying
that Apple is teh suck because eight years ago they released an
operating system that crashed when introduced to a device that came
from the future. The defence is shrugging.
Let's hate on something relevant like telephones that barely work as
telephones. Or DRM.
Personally I'd quite happily vent on the subject of a terminal
application that supports only sixteen colours and presents a tabbed
interface in which all the tabs say merely "bash" or "ssh" most of the
time.
There's plenty of cathartic hate-fuel in the low hanging fruit; no
need to feign surprise that an obsolete operating system gets confused
by devices that conform to a specification that barely existed at the
time of its demise.
--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten
