Re: Musing on the Music Store

[Geoffrey Loeffler]

Well we can hope that Apple comes out with faster machines, I have 
read these articles too, but Apple has lagged in getting things out 
the door on time or anywhere near the predicted release dates i.e.,. 
10. not really ready for prime time. We can hope they come up with 
something that really blows the paint off the machine with X.  I love 
my Mac but like other users I am not going to buy hardware until it 
will really move X.  Most Mac users are doing the same unless the 
have money to burn or need the latest and greatest. This is not good 
business for Apple. They may be able to live in the 2% bracket, but 
we are not discussing cars, we are discussing a machine which must be 
compatible with the rest of the work the world does, if we get pushed 
out by the 98% percent majority we are in trouble.

And while Apple is trying to catch up to the bar that giant in 
Redmond is not sitting on it's butt either, they are raising the bar. 
They do cheat, steal, and squash good ideas, but they do marketing 
better, Apple missed that boat..

 I have always pushed the Mac because of quality, ease of use, and 
the ease of troubleshooting.. This was the real beauty of the Mac OS, 
but the real Mac OS is dead, we are now using UNIX with a
 Mac eye candy.  For techies this might be great but under the GUI 
eye candy is a very complex system. The average user is going to find 
this difficult to troubleshoot unless Apple does some serious 
tweaking. It actually is closer to windoz then Mac..

I have read the CR reports of Apples products and agree they really 
do not know Macs, I have sent them letters in the past pointing out 
huge errors in rating the Mac, so because this one time they say good 
things CR is right, what about their wrong views of the Mac. We take 
the good but throw out the bad.? Is that really a fair.. I have had 
different experiences with Apples Service, far from good..
Geoff

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