Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem
On Friday 04 January 2019 19:32:18 deloptes wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> So I was thinking perhaps this is good for the economy, because if
> >> most of the users were like me, there wouldn't be any economic
> >> growth in the past years.
> >
> > I see that too, darn it.
>
> Suddenly I spotted something that fits our discussion by the worst
> example - Apple.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XneTBhRPYk
We've been victimized by that too. We bought a video editor in the fading
days of NTSC, had a pair of G5's. Within a month we had a fire. They
were filled with plastic moldings to direct the cooling air to the hot
spots that I thought was pretty sharp engineering, until I realized a
fan failure was guaranteed to destroy it in about a minute. Shitty $3
fans, Apple, because we had opened it to verify the fire was out,
refused to warranty a thing, quoteing nearly $8500 for a new one. We
found another system for 3 G's that got us to the hi-def age in 2008.
Apple has never learned that screwing your top of the line customer
means he will never darken the apple door again. And AFAIK, no Apple
product has ever had a rack screw in its ears at that station since.
That whole package, big crt monitors, software and a weeks on-site
install and tutoring, cost us north of $25 grand, and we got about a
months use out of it. Such memories aren't easily forgotten.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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