1) You hate that they are consistently rated the highest or among the highest in customer satsifaction?
Yes, I specifically hate that. Otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned that they were consistently rated the highest in customer satisfaction.
Or, alternatively, I was less impressed by the ratings and more impressed by their consistently bad customer service.
For example, it took Apple four years to remove an address from my Apple Store address which I couldn't delete or modify myself and which the Apple Store insisted was the default shipping address, despite the fact that that address is in another country and I don't live there.
You might be surprised to learn that Apple's ratings in surveys had little to no effect on my anger about that.
In general I pay little attention to surveys when I make up my mind about something, but it's interesting to learn that other people think that I would.
2) Please elaborate on the government powers they use to defeat competition. This should be an interesting response. I will get out my tinfoil hat.
We have here an entire thread about Apple "allowing" or "not allowing" something and you think it has to do with tinfoil heads to assume that Apple might actually sue.
3) This is obviously spoken by someone who has never developed software.
Quite in contrary. I just happen to work in a place where testing is regarded as rather more important than it is at Apple's.
It would be flat out impossible to deliver software without testing it. For one thing it would mean that one relies on fanboys to yell at people who find bugs. And where do you find such loyal fanboys?
No. It is merely a bad idea. But it is totally possible.
Note that "checking if it works" is not what I consider "testing" when it comes to software.
Aside from the internal testing that we don't know about if you are a regular at MacRumors then you will constantly see posts about Apple releasing a new build of their OS to developers on a regular basis. You lost all credibility with this post.
Releasing new builds to people outside the company is not "testing" either.
Start iWeb. Type something in a right-to-left language. Type more than one line, include the odd punctuation as if it were real sentences.
Let iWeb create a Web site based on that input.
Look at the result and tell me that you think that Apple have TESTED whether right-to-left languages support, a feature of Cocoa, works in iWeb.
Don't talk about credibility, establish credibility.
(Ever looked at how titles of Arabic or Israeli music appears on the iPhone?)
