Maybe I should tell them how I really feel.

[theweaselking]

Dear Apple.

"Bonjour"?

You suck. Anything installed without my express permission is malware, by definition. Bundling malware with your products makes you a BAD SOFTWARE COMPANY.

PS: Your OS10.5 update broke wireless connectivity for three of the PowerBooks in the office, causing them to not only fail to make a wireless connection but to DOS everyone else around them. And google tells me this has happened to a great many of your other customers, not just me. You are incompetent and you make lousy software.

Comments

[goose-gumshoe.livejournal.com]

oh my.

[paradoxicmotion.livejournal.com]

"Bonjour"?

It was called "Rendezvous" which is a more sensible name on any number of levels, but then there were stupid trademark and/or patent concerns and they had to change it.

As to the other thing. Yeah. Awesome.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I consider it the same way I see NetBEUI in Windows, annoying default OS specific network discovery service that I can turn off.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And were I using a Mac and having this piece of stupid shit coming with my Mac, I might hold that same charitable view.

I, however, am NOT using a Mac, because I am an adult and I am not confused by having more than one button.

[nubule.livejournal.com]

The one-button thing is so over. There are many valid criticisms of MacOS X and Mac hardware, but that's not one of them.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

It will never be over, because the one-button idea was STUPID.

[nubule.livejournal.com]

Windows sure is horrible, since version 1 couldn't have overlapping windows!

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I still see one-button mouses on Macs!

[nubule.livejournal.com]

Okay, then, wasn't Active Desktop just a terrible idea? Really, I don't know why you would cling to the past in this argument.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually, it really was.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Also: "No, windows is horrible for a whole HOST of other reasons!"

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

No, Windows is horrible because you can't fucking stack windows properly. What kind of idiotic idea is it to have the active window jump to front all the time?

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

You want itunes, you get some other shit with it. Deal with it.

It's not malware, it's payment for the free-ness of the cool stuff they give away.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> It's not malware, it's payment for the free-ness

Heee.

(I mean, really. I do get what you're saying, but at the same time, I'm amused at your assumption that because something is "payment for the free-ness" it *can't* be malware.)

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

just like the stuff that was bundled in Kazaa .p

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course, just like the offers of FREA V1AGRA that are so generously provided with email. They're payment, for the free-ness of instant email stuff!

Unwanted, undocumented, "back door" software installations are malware. Period.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

No, that's just not true. They're trying to add value to using Mac software by offering iTunes.

[wiseacre.livejournal.com]

Dear Complainer,

I am Steve Fucking Jobs and you will take whatever the fuck I decide to give you. If I don't give it to you, you don't need it. If I give it to you, you MUST take it. I am hip and cool and edgy and not just another egomaniacal billionaire. Rember the Lisa? That was so fucking cool! Rember how I took away your floppy with the original iMac? Now I'm taking away a bunch of other stuff you think you need with the MacBook (full of hot) Air. You weren't using those USB ports anyway! You'll take what I give you and pay more for less! If you don't like it, you can suck my mock turtle-necked cock!

Steve