Mappletosh locking out more Custom Customers?
I just got a new HP notebook at work (its running XP). No kidding. Anyway, during the interchange-with-desktop services guy time, he glanced at my MacBook and then he told me something quite interesting:
Apparently, Apple is putting special screws into all the external cases etc. to which only THEY have a screwdriver for. And, if you bring in a legacy notebook, like my older un-warrantied MacBook they will take the liberty of putting in these screws for you. Customers, then, very plainly, cannot work on or upgrade their machines. They will have to take them into the Apple Temple at their local mall to get them worked on.
Wow. Wow wow wow. No home-memory upgrades. No home hard drive swaps. If your keyboard gets hosed up — no buying one off the internet and putting it in yourself. Nope.
And it’s all part of the Apple Experience!
Well, the Apple experience is starting to suck. I don’t understand why the Applites all defend a huge, bigger than Microsoft company so much when they do things like this. Or when they do things like not allow flash on iPhones. All that. Why the blind loyalty?
Being a developer, and a power user (I guess) here’s how my life works: I want to choose what applications I want to use. I want to choose my own experience. When I get a computer I am not buying a speak and spell, all glued together and does one thing. But that’s where Apple is going with it all.
People probably think “why so down on Macs?” I’m not but, they keep doing stupid things. Listen, Mac doesn’t make the best development IDE someone else does, so why lock it out? Best desktop wiki — a company that makes Wiki’s, not Mac. Best music production software? Best browser? Best multimedia center (even Windows Media center is better than iTunes)? Not Mac. Not Windows.
Linux figured out — we can just provide a solid hardware interface (called the OS) for the applications you want to run for you OWN experience. Why is it then, Mac can’t learn what Microsoft and Linux has learned? I don’t know.
But the funny part is that you get Parallels and VMWare Fusion for cheap prices, and VirtualBox for nuthin’ — to run your Windows or Linux apps on Macs. Pretty funny.
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This article was written in a Sea Monkey browser running inside Puppy Linux running on a MacBook running VMWare Fusion 2.03.