Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:59:02PM +, petard wrote: If software companies were responsible for bugs in hardware that they do not manufacture, MS would be in much more trouble than it is already. Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've pretty much always been negligent about making sure that other vendor's hardware worked with theirs and/or their OS. Just sticking in a new hard drive gives you error messages (which you can ignore and bypass) when upgrading the OS. You get the idea that they want you to only buy their hardware. In fact the whole OS-X thing is like that -- they deliberately, after having all the betas running on older powermacs, wrote the production code to exclude anything but new G-3 based machines. Don't get me wrong, I like Apple and their hardware, but some of their policies suck. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data
At 06:37 PM 11/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and they've pretty much always been negligent about making sure that other vendor's hardware worked with theirs and/or their OS. I thought that was half the point of Apple ---you play only with us, and we make sure it all runs smoothly. (The other half being a once-superior UI). But you pay. If you want cheaper hardware that you have to wrestle with, you get a PC. Isn't that why Fry's has a return policy? A policy is a set of tradeoffs. Free people choose what they want.
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