As I've already explained, there are enough users on just this forum alone reporting OSX install calamities to justify the creation of a truthful educational web page, which is what I've been proposing.
Here's the deal guys. It's entirely appropriate to challenge any proposal. And I totally get that that's the game on any forum, and I play it myself.
But the goal of the challenge should be to better serve Mac users.
None of you have put a proposal on the table that would serve the affected users better than the status quo, or my proposal. Thus, I reasonably conclude that like Apple, you are not interested in those Mac users having a better experience.
And so, because I can find no one interested in the topic of this thread, which is finding better ways to serve those having OSX install calamities, I cede total victory to all of you, given that this appears to be all that you're really interested in.
You win, I lose, game over, unsubscribed.
You ignored my alternative that I presented IN MY FIRST POST, so you have absolutely no ground to stand on with this grandstanding. Since your proposal will do nothing to fix issues caused any time an OS is updated (whether OS X, Windows, Linux, etc) as it pertains to third party applications/devices/etc, having users who lack any sort of a technical background run test environments just frustrates them and does nothing to solve the problem you allege yet still cannot prove to be significant. The only way to properly address those alleged issues is to give users information on what issues are occurring and how to resolve them, something which is already present in the status quo through sites such as this one, Macworld, Mac Life, etc.
I stated earlier that you cannot use the posts on these forums or the forum membership as representative of the user base as a whole, because nobody posts on here to brag about how perfect their system is. That's like polling a bunch of Bama fans about their opinion of Auburn (their hated in-state rival) - the results are skewed simply by whom you chose as your focus group. I also stated that Apple still leads the customer satisfaction ratings, which directly contradicts your claim that these issues are causing bad publicity for Apple. You chose to completely ignore that as well.
But the part that really ticked me off is where you falsely claim that the people taking issue with your proposal "like Apple, you are not interested in those Mac users having a better experience." That's the biggest strawman argument of all, and your proposal was full of them from the start. You claim that a significant issue exists, but cannot provide evidence to support that claim, let alone that any impact could be considered significant. There's no need to present a counterproposal when you can't even prove the harms you allege.
Every time someone has directly challenged your thesis and methodology, you've resorted to falsely claiming that either a) their arguments aren't valid or b) nobody's really interested in discussing the issue - which is a bold-faced lie given how many posts there are in this thread. Furthermore, at the point where you admit to not buying a Mac in the last 12 years, you demonstrate that you have no actual experience upon which to base your claims, and your lack of knowledge of issues that affected Apple devices DURING Jobs' second tenure at Apple proves that you honestly have no evidential, factual, or logical basis for your proposal other than to bash Apple and anyone who disagrees with you.
The reason you lose this discussion isn't because people don't care, it's because you a) fail to prove that the issue is significant enough to warrant such action, b) refuse to directly defend yourself, instead choosing to arbitrarily call arguments irrelevant or ignore them completely, and cannot provide even one solid piece of evidence to support your claims. I've seen high school freshmen in their first-ever debate tournaments who were better capable of defending their case thesis then you have been.
