Why does Apple *do* this?

[ceej]

Today is Labor Day in the US.

MacRumors employees as well as the advertisers do serious business in MacRumors.
Some serious business people find good tech support and help in this forum.

Based on your definition, watching porn is serious business.

These people hate any form of educated people, I've noticed. Don't take it personally. They can't brainwash us as easily.

 

[Gomff]

I'm right, listen to me.

You're an Apple devotee....Of course you're right.

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The fact that you own three Macs does not impress me.

I'm crushed.

 

[MisterMe]

You're an Apple devotee....Of course you're right.

Congratulations, you're coming around!

I'm crushed.

Chin up. The Sun will rise tomorrow.

 

[talmy]

Non-serious business use is accessing MacRumors on company time. And playing games.

Serious business use is just about everything else.

Today is Labor Day in the US.

MacRumors employees as well as the advertisers do serious business in MacRumors.
Some serious business people find good tech support and help in this forum.

Based on your definition, watching porn is serious business.

I probably should have put in a smiley face. Every "business use" is serious by definition. The concept that there is "Serious business use" and "non-serious business use" is bogus.

There are "serious" business reasons not only for reading MacRumors, but also for playing games and even for watching porn! For most people doing these things aren't business reasons, "serious" or not, but for personal pleasure.

 

[gentlefury]

Apple has the bad habit of completely discontinuing a previous operating system the instant a new major version comes out.

The problem with this is new operating systems have bugs and incompatibilities, and these bugs mean that people who depend on these machines for a living cannot upgrade to the new release right away. For existing machines this is fine, but it basically places a complete halt on the ability to buy new Macs until the issues are worked out, because the new Macs come with the new version and you CANNOT downgrade.

Microsoft has always allowed us to purchase and install previous versions of Windows; why can't Apple provide a way to downgrade to a previous release for *at least* a few months after a new OS comes out, so that those who have business operations depending on the previous version can still buy new hardware?

They did the same thing with Final Cut, and THANKFULLY relented when enough people complained and allowed them to buy the previous version again.

It's just one of my pet peeves, and I was wondering if anyone else shares it.

software developers have had quite a while to develop lion compatible versions...its not apples fault they didn't do it.

btw, whats with the *asterisks*?

 

[Queen6]

Serious work on these machines? They are just glorified toys and nothing else how can you do serious work on anything with a 250 GB flash drive and 2 usb ports? There is a reason they were dubbed Crap Book Air.

I for one do, and my air paid for it`s self in the first day of serious use, dont judge others usage by your own