Don't be silly. Resignation is a nonstandard workflow, and hence Apple products not only do not support it, they actively prevent you from doing it because nobody would ever want to.
I wouldn't mind apple products if they just came out and said "we are for computer tards" rather than having a bunch of users who try to explain to me that I should let some designer with pretensions of petty tyranny decide what I should do with my computer.
Anyway... ready for the Apple clones to come back?
Heh. You can call him whatever you like, as long as he's resigning and not quitting. :)
I wouldn't say that just because we can't do whatever we want with their products, it makes them unusable. If that's how they want to design their products, that's their prerogative. It's also their choice to lose customers who need/want features that, for whatever reason, they do not support or allow. (Personal case in point: Final Cut X removes so many professional features that it renders it unusable for my professional work as a video editor, so I will most likely be switching to a different product come next upgrade).
Final Cut X "just works" ...once a few dozen third-party developers start making plugins to replace all the missing features, and users start paying double the purchase price for all those plugins.
I didn't say "unusable", I said "unusability", which is an important quality that Apple focuses on: Making the product do less, in a more arcane way, with fewer options that people want.
"Unusable" means it can't be used. "Unusability" is the art of making it so it *can* be used, but that the end user is constantly confronted with the realisation that not only *could* it have been improved, work was deliberately put in to make it not work as well.
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Date: 2011-08-25 01:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-25 01:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-25 02:23 am (UTC)Anyway... ready for the Apple clones to come back?
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Date: 2011-08-25 02:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-25 03:36 am (UTC)I wouldn't say that just because we can't do whatever we want with their products, it makes them unusable. If that's how they want to design their products, that's their prerogative. It's also their choice to lose customers who need/want features that, for whatever reason, they do not support or allow. (Personal case in point: Final Cut X removes so many professional features that it renders it unusable for my professional work as a video editor, so I will most likely be switching to a different product come next upgrade).
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Date: 2011-08-25 12:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-25 01:14 pm (UTC)"Unusable" means it can't be used. "Unusability" is the art of making it so it *can* be used, but that the end user is constantly confronted with the realisation that not only *could* it have been improved, work was deliberately put in to make it not work as well.
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Date: 2011-08-28 08:56 pm (UTC)