Smartest post in this biitch-fest of a thread. I love how it's always the 'Apple loyalists' who whine the hardest when Apple decides to move forward and do something different. It's always them that start threatening that they will abandon Apple if they do X or Y- which of course Apple does- and which subsequently turns out to be a brilliant move and makes Apple even more successful. Guess what- enough with your veiled threats towards the company, you guys have no leverage. For every sale they'll potentially lose from you, they'll make 100 new ones. Stop acting as if you have any influence over the success of the company, are its lifeblood, etc. Its success is being achieved through new users.
Apple is clearly attempting to move away from optical media, and has been doing so for the last few years. Yet, you demand that they include their OS on optical media, which is basically Apple telling people 'actually, ignore what we've been saying the past few ears, you actually need an optical drive to do anything of importance.' Wake the hell up. When tech moves forward, there HAS to be a small period of small inconvenience for some- there always have been in Apple's history, and every single time they come out stronger for it- and every SINGLE time, you people bitch and fight against it. You're whining about absolutely nothing, and I'm sure there will be available options for all of your OMG WHAT IF scenarios.
Guess what? Apple is successful despite all of you whiners, not because of you. I've been on these boards long enough to witness all the times this forum has shown near universal outrage over a product, feature, change in direction, addition, ommission, basically anything that has made its products and the company ore successful. I for one congratulate Apple for having the vision to lead and initiate change, particularly relying our dependance on outdated optical media. Like everything else Apple has done, this will become an industry standards in the next few years.
