Apple is the one who imposed the deadline. I called Apple Accessibility, and
the Apple main number, trying to get it extended, no luck.
I'll bet we all know blind people who get an iPhone, and just don't seem to get
it. They end up getting Searie to do everything for them, because they just
never seem to have caught on to using the touch screen. By then, they have
their iPhone, like it or not, and would have to pay a big cancellation fee to
return it. I just didn't want to have all this money invested in something
that I very well may, but may not have caught onto eventually. By no means
did I expect to be fluent at it by yesterday, but I think I should have been
getting it, a little more than I was by the deadline. I am not opposed to
trying it again in the future. It will have to be some kind of cheaper
alternative, though, until I feel confident that I am going to get it. I wish
Apple had given me more time.
Arnold Schmidt
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From: Scott Granados
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: My Time Ran Out, I Took It Back
Arnold, you never stood a chance. You can’t learn an operating system in 2
weeks, thinking you could was unreasonable. I wouldn’t even undertake such a
thing with a limited time frame like that ant ai have 35 years of computer
experience. Also, you went in to it with the wrong mindset. I remember the
first posts you had set up for failure on day 1. It’s like learning a
language, you can’t learn it word by word or just in dribs and drabs, the only
real way to learn is full emersion. If I were learning French I’d head to
France and plop down in the middle of the country where i didn’t have a choice.
Same with computing. When you decide to learn a new operating system you have
to cut your self off from the old. You have to build up all new muscle memory
for keyboard commands. I’d say 10 to 1 you kept issuing windows type keyboard
commands on the Mac and introducing problems not for anything you are doing
wrong just because you’re new and have built up years of muscle memory for
commands in Windows.
You also didn’t value learning the Mac. You mentioned several times even in
your first post that you wouldn’t gain anything. So in the end I’m not sure
why you bothered. That’s like walking in to the job interview, telling your
self you’re not going to get the job anyway and then living up to your
expectations.:) If you ever try this again with any platform don’t limit
yourself to an unreasonable amount of time. Maybe try an operating system like
a Linux variant or something with is totally free out of the box, won’t cause
any financial pressure and you can dedicate to it with out other distractions
like worrying about the costs. No matter what, good job or giving it a crack.
It’s good to push the boundaries and I’m glad you gave it a shot.
P.S. Stay away from Costco. They totally screwed that migration from Amex.
I canceled my membership because of the sloppy rollout.
On Jul 6, 2016, at 4:50 AM, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote:
I wand to thank everyone for the help I have received over the past two
weeks, concerning my Mac Mini. However, I ended up taking it back after all
yesterday, which was my last day to return it.
To attempt to make a long message not quite so long, I guess I just wasn't
getting it as much as I think I should have been. Every time I would turn it
on, it seemed that I still was having to look up how to do things that I
thought I had already learned, and it definitely was getting more frustrating
than fun, being that I could very easily do those things in Windows, or on my
iPhone. And in the end, what was going to be the real benefit to me? ITunes
allegedly easier to use, and being able to install the OS myself.
Being that yesterday was going to be my last day, I started out intending
to put in a lot of extra time with it, before the time for my paratransit trip
to return it arrived, which I still thought I was going to cancel. So, I
decided to log into my bank web site, which I had not attempted yet. I
successfully passed the first step in the two-step verification, but then, no
matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to read the security question it wanted
answered. No problem in Windows, or my iPhone, no go on this Mac mini. I
could tell the location for the answer field, I could find what should have
been the question field, it just wouldn't read anything. I typed in the answer
to one of my security questions, which, of course, was the wrong answer for the
question it was asking. I am sure the inability to get it to read the security
question was mine, not the Mac Mini's . So, I closed Safari, then decided to
turn on keyboard help, just to try differing combinations of keys I had never
tried before to see what it would say. I was trying the function keys, and hit
a key at the very right end of them, and it just shut off. Nothing I did would
get VoiceOver talking again. I tried the three-finger triple tap on the track
pad,then the three-finger double tap which is what it is on my iPhone, turned
the track pad commander off and on, turned the whole computer off and back on,
nothing. And this was my last day.
I wish I had had 30 days. If I had had, I still don't think it would have
gone back. But I didn't want to be one of those people who never quite got it,
but it was too late to take it back, and I had over 900 dollars invested in the
thing. Even though it would have put me lower in my checking account than I
wanted to be, I should have kept the Windows 10 Lenovo I bought from Costco,
and the Mac Mini, too, knowing one of them was going back. I bought the Lenovo
first, after having talked myself out of buying a Mac, again. Sometime before
Microsoft stops supporting Vista next spring, there will be another good deal
come through Costco.
I always had wanted to try a Mac, I am glad I did. But it ended up being
so much tedium and frustration to me, as compared to what I already know, with
not all that much seeming benefit in the end. I fully expected not to know what
I was doing for a while, but I thought it would have begun to get easier by
yesterday, which, I guess, it wasn't, even with the two books I have.
Arnold Schmidt
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