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- mdavis, on 11/12/2007, -27/+653Something tells me it's Qwest that's practically obselete.
- allaboutdatiki, on 11/12/2007, -26/+538Qwest? Are they still in business?
- flaminio, on 11/10/2007, -7/+151Those wacky Eithernet standards. Who can possibly comply with it?
- MAnt, on 11/10/2007, -4/+125As a mac user I normally lie when I have to call my ISP. If they ask if its windows I say sure. Its not hard to set up TCP/IP on either platform. Properties/ Preferences it's all Billy Joel to me.
- atdigg, on 11/08/2007, -12/+1138% of users is huge, if this is true for whole market it means millions of people.
- linkerjpatrick, on 11/08/2007, -15/+111Maybe Apple should buy Quest, out of spite.
- jellystones, on 11/08/2007, -7/+92"He then transferred me, against my will, to the apple support line.""
Wow, If I ran QWest, that employee would receive a pink slip that same day. - Spartandog, on 11/08/2007, -7/+90I get that kind of comment all the time from computer stores. One guy at Future Shop actually told me, when I asked about a Mac compatible printer, "Macs are on the way out. Nobody buys them anymore". At EB Games, the clerk said "we don't bother stocking games for Mac because Macs will be gone in a year from now."
It's like some kind of allergy. - meatmcguffin, on 11/08/2007, -13/+87"Seriously, Mac OS does nothing Linux cant do, and windows just does it all."
I'm guessing a lot of people stopped reading at this point. - snotrokit, on 11/09/2007, -5/+77Ahh Qworst at its finest. True Story, they had a PVC in a frame relay from Chicago to Milwaukee routing through a school in International Falls MN. Don't ask me how, but they did it. We were wondering what was happening to our VOIP traffic.
Brilliant! - ericof, on 11/08/2007, -4/+71Yeah. That's a pretty straightforward logic. Other examples:
Digg is obsolete also (way less than 8% of Internet users);
Smart people are obsolete (Imagine how obsolete a guy with a PhD. turns out to be...)
and so on...
/sarcasm - tizz66, on 11/08/2007, -5/+71Well if you're prepared to say 'sorry, go elsewhere' to 8% of your potential customers like Qwest are, you clearly aren't a very good business.
- Terc, on 11/08/2007, -7/+66Interestingly enough, that niche includes nearly 40% of incoming freshmen at US Universities this year.
- sholt, on 11/07/2007, -8/+63I do not think that word means what you think it means.
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -2/+55I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard "Apple is going out of business" since the 1980s. I'd be turning more profit than Qwest.
- jspegele, on 11/08/2007, -4/+54I completely agree with you. Hell, lets take this a step further and apply your logic to everything. If you can't diagnose a medical condition, you shouldn't have the benefit of medicine. If you can't put out a fire, why should the fire department do it for you? If you can't build a house, you should live in a box. "stop depending on others to fix your problems for you."
- shyla, on 11/08/2007, -5/+55When me and my roommates set up a wireless router for our residence room, it wasn't working properly so i phoned the company, and they told me the reason it wasn't working properly was because I had a mac. I hung up.
- jgallagher721, on 11/07/2007, -9/+55"If I wanted to waste $1100 on a macbook and not be able to play games, I would spend it on a laptop with linux."
That sentence just baffles me. - reapergun9, on 11/08/2007, -11/+54That's retarded. If Macs are obsolete, why did 2 million people buy Leopard in the first weekend?
- glensvodka, on 11/07/2007, -2/+44I'd love to know what the final 30 second solution was. "Plug the modem in"?
- starbird, on 11/08/2007, -3/+42Why is that a bad argument? The more people that begin using them at the collegiate level, the more that will continue to use as the get older.
- terminalpariah, on 11/07/2007, -4/+42I have an iMac and a 360. Everything "just works" and I have access to all the commercial software and video games I could possibly want. And the combined price was less than gaming rig which would be out of date in a year.
- meatmcguffin, on 11/07/2007, -2/+39With NTL in the UK, I had problems with my router and i was told to fire up the computer and click on 'start'. I explained I was on a Mac and the customer rep said "I have one of those, they're great! Now, go ahead and click on start"
Morons - elitemrp, on 11/07/2007, -14/+50oh crap i just ordered a mac mini a few days ago.. they're obselete? should i cancel my order?? =P
- luchid, on 11/07/2007, -0/+35Yeah! Did you hear? They now come in red, blue and even YELLOW cables! So confusing!!
- maexus, on 11/07/2007, -3/+34Um, I'm running Qwest right now on my Macbook. Hmm...
- inactive, on 11/07/2007, -1/+31As a Mac user, I don't need your approval. If you want to play games get a Wii. But, you are correct that companies can refuse to deal with Macs. But frankly, that says more about the company's shortcomings than it does about Macs. Macs are simply not that different any more. Ethernet is Ethernet. What's the big honking deal?
- bulkhater, on 11/07/2007, -0/+30You didn't read the article did you? This wasn't a Mac problem, this was a MAJOR customer service issue. 90% of the post was about the billing nightmare they put the article writer through because of Quest's incompetence. The fact that it took them two months to set up a Mac Wireless connection was a relatively minor issue.
Of course the woman who wrote the article SHOULD have canceled the service within a few days of them failing to get the connection working. She put up with shoddy service for far too long and ended up eating a few hundred dollars in cell phone and service charges she could have avoided. - RoamShell, on 11/07/2007, -1/+31I wasn't even aware ghetto was downloadable anyways.
- meatmcguffin, on 11/07/2007, -0/+29And give the money back to the shareholders?
- doctechnical, on 11/07/2007, -2/+30OK, let's try this one on for size: If you can't change a tire you shouldn't be allowed to drive.
- anarchyx34, on 11/09/2007, -6/+34I like turtles.
- shakin, on 11/07/2007, -1/+29Nearly 1 in10 people is not a niche. What do you think would happen if a store at the mall started turning away 1 in 10 people who tried to go in? It's madness.
- chad78, on 11/07/2007, -1/+27yeah, Macs will disappear in the same year that the 'YEAR OF DESKTOP LINUX" predictions that schewotiz posts every year finally comes true. you know, when Microsoft goes bankrupt.
- flashingcurser, on 11/07/2007, -6/+32As an ex Qwest employee, I can tell you that this is complete BS!
Qwest dsl phone techs are required to tech macs even if when stuck on a windows machine. This includes os9! and x. We even tech calls for linux if the customer could get to the web-interface or telnet into the modem. If the tech said that in jest, a quality control person will stomp a mud-hole in their ass. This tech will be caught by quality control and stupid comments like this will end. Qwest has 100's of techs, some are dumb and some bright.
As a side note: ALL of qwest equipment comes with a telnet config or web-based. 99% of the time you plug your patch cable in your modem and set your comp to use dynamic, grab dhcp, browse to your gateway, type in your settings in the config page as per your welcome letter. You don't need any software or want any. The software is for windows users who's parents were siblings. - PA42, on 11/07/2007, -0/+25how do you figure it was Apples fault? You don't have very good reading comprehension, do you?
- chad78, on 11/07/2007, -1/+26yes, because you windows users know so much about your operating system. look, not everyone wants to look under the hood of their computer and tweak it. that doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to drive the thing. you don't have to be a mechanic to drive, and you don't have to be a tech to use a computer. this is 2007, most people use computers, very few users are techs. from your RTFM attitude, i'd suspect your a tech - and a linux user. not everyone is like you.
- Terc, on 11/07/2007, -0/+25Actually, Macs are the ONLY pcs that can run 100% of the software on the market.... but hey, it sounds better for your case if you ignore the existence of x11 support, parallels or vmware fusion.
- RoamShell, on 11/07/2007, -0/+25I agree, I remember when I used to pretend I was using Windows to get comcast to fix their *****. They usually would always try to get me to use this retarded autoconfigure utility that essentially did nothing on windows (and at the time there wasn't a mac version) so I had to lie that the thing gave me a BSOD everytime I used it. Because, you know, Windows XP is SOOOO unstable /sarcasm.
Note: I can't remember if this was comcast or the variations beforehand (TCI, @home, etc) - inactive, on 11/07/2007, -0/+24What I would give for the recordings of those tech support calls. Ignorant users plus ignorant tech support equals prefect comedy.
- nlinux, on 11/10/2007, -24/+47what's more amazing about this article is that the author is not technically competent enough to configure a simple network connection. Is that the norm for mac users?
- ragingradish, on 11/07/2007, -0/+22"one of my biggest peeves after misuse of punctuation mark's [...]"
Indeed. - threemagic, on 11/07/2007, -4/+26Well for one, you can play games. If you are a child and think that's what a computer is for anyway. OS X is a certified Unix with all the security and management tools that come with linux as well. OS X has a variety of publishing, office and video apps available for it that aren't available for linux. I can run Windows on my apple hardware like the rest of the world if I so choose...
so basically I'm saying you're hatred is unfounded and ridiculous. - chad78, on 11/07/2007, -3/+24"Seriously, Mac OS does nothing Linux cant do, and windows just does it all."
Does Linux run iLife? iWork? Final Cut Pro? Adobe, um, Anything? File Maker Pro? Microsoft Anything? Apple Anything? QuickBooks?
Linux is a great OS - and I use it. But some people need software that doesn't run on it. And some of that software (iLife, iWork) doesn't run on Windows.
I have a legal bought-and-paid-for copy of Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium, complete with InDesign. But I find myself using iWork's Pages a lot more often than InDesign, because its faster, easier to use, and gets the job done quicker. Yes, I've used Scribus. No, it doesn't come close. - Terc, on 11/07/2007, -3/+24What the hell are you doing using a LAPTOP for your "business" of making games and 3D graphics? Normally people use workstations for this... Laptop hard drives and graphics are simply not as fast as what is available in workstations. Try beating a dual quad core machine with 8/16 GB RAM and a 4 disk raid 0/1 array with any laptop,
- childprey, on 11/07/2007, -4/+25while 7% market share looks small, if there;s ten million computers out there in the US (lol...), you're effectively alienating seven hundred thousand potential customers. Probably not a good corporate endeavour. Lets face it, a vocal minority will stir ***** up.
- DouglasScott, on 11/07/2007, -3/+24Update your information, JAV. You are ten years late for that kind of thinking.
- localzuk, on 11/07/2007, -0/+20You shouldn't joke - at the school I work at they always used blue network cables for everything. Now I use cables according to the device's function and as such have a variety of colours - if you give someone a cable that is a different colour to the one they are used to they get upset and say it won't work...
- ArthasMenethil, on 11/10/2007, -5/+24buried for using Qwest, not spelling obsolete right, "leasing" a wireless modem (wtf?), not managing cell phone minutes and bitching about it, and thinking that because you have a mac everything should click without any brain cells.
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