7 Nov
2003
7 Nov
'03
11:22 p.m.
Apple is both a software *and* a hardware company, however, and
At 06:37 PM 11/7/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: 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.