"the arrogance levels at Apple" -- one little curt email from SJ -- not even to you -- and you are scarred for life?
you expect them to develop the product with the features that meet your little vision of the world and if they don't, they are arrogant? what a laugh...quit being a victim...you are simply just not a customer for their product...go buy something else.
Firstly, I didn't mention anything about an email, I don't know what you are talking about there, it's a bit of a strange comment to make really. And it was a forum post, of course I'm not "scarred for life"!
I think Apple have often taken petty and arrogant decisions that are not in the interests of large numbers of their customers (not just me or your ignorant perception of what my "little vision" is), for no real reason other than to try and shape the market rather than to improve the products for existing and repeat customers, who like their products overall. I am not being a victim, I've just got an opinion, just like you, and this is a forum for expressing such opinions.
On a wider point, I find it consistently silly when anyone who criticises anything Apple does get labelled as a 'hater' or is told to go buy something else then. I mentioned the video iPod and Firewire (...when it was dropped from the 13 inch alu macbooks) for a reason - they are both examples of things Apple talked down, then did what might reasonably be called a U-turn on. They aren't perfect.
It kind of goes without saying that if they annoyed me enough by not meeting my needs then I'd look at and possibly buy alternatives. It's a facile, maybe even empty point that gets repeated again and again on these forums and isn't challenged enough. It's just stating the obvious. Does posting here make any real difference to Apple's products? Probably not much if any. It's a place to express views. Apple.com/feedback is the place to send actual feedback, which I sometimes do.
But you know, overall I really like Apple's products. I really don't like Windows by comparison to OS X at all. I really don't like about 95% of other computer manufacturers machines by comparison. Is your suggestion that I go and buy one of their competitors' products and then clog up PC forums with far more expressions of things I don't like with those machines so some bright spark can tell me to stop being a victim and go buy a mac?!
People compromise on some little stuff on Apple products, because overall the alternatives would involve much greater compromises.
I do not own an iPhone yet. I own an iPod Touch and an iPad, both of which I love, and have been holding off on an iPhone until a model I really thought hit every point I wanted came along. The iPhone 4 really looks like it should be the one, but it needs to work properly as a phone, and if Apple's attitude to fixing known issues if simply one of denial or obfuscation then yes, I might well not buy it yet. That's not being a victim, it's being an intelligent consumer who knows what he wants out of a product. Yeah, maybe I won't be a customer of the iPhone 4, but I'd like to be.
Furthermore, this thread in particular is about an event that has not taken place yet. To speculate on what they might or might not say seems logical enough to me. Your post seems to imply I should accept whatever Apple say this Friday, despite you not even knowing what that is yet. I find that a little odd.
Just please stop all the hyperbole and insults and try to make reasonable arguments in future before you call people names. Have a nice day.
