Shame and embarrassment of Mac users
Look at the .Mac discussion board on Apple's support pages:
<a href="http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.3bb85d60"; target="_blank">General .Mac discussion boards</a>
Now, I should point out a few things:
1. This is not supposed to be another thread about the pros and cons .Mac per se. There are other threads to argue that point, so please use them.
2. Apple, despite criticism of censoring their own boards, should be more responsive to clean this up.
But isn't this just an embarrassment? Shouldn't we be ashamed of our collective behavior? Are we really this uncivilized? Even the most angry users should be able to handle themselves in a more intelligent and appropriate manner. Am I alone in this? Forget everything else about .Mac, Macworld and anything else that's pissing you off. Are we this rude by our nature? Who would want to associate with this kind of person? Who would be proud enough after seeing this to be associated with these people as Apple customers?
I'm a bit at a loss for words... I can only think of the word embarrassed to express my feelings about this.
<a href="http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.3bb85d60"; target="_blank">General .Mac discussion boards</a>
Now, I should point out a few things:
1. This is not supposed to be another thread about the pros and cons .Mac per se. There are other threads to argue that point, so please use them.
2. Apple, despite criticism of censoring their own boards, should be more responsive to clean this up.
But isn't this just an embarrassment? Shouldn't we be ashamed of our collective behavior? Are we really this uncivilized? Even the most angry users should be able to handle themselves in a more intelligent and appropriate manner. Am I alone in this? Forget everything else about .Mac, Macworld and anything else that's pissing you off. Are we this rude by our nature? Who would want to associate with this kind of person? Who would be proud enough after seeing this to be associated with these people as Apple customers?
I'm a bit at a loss for words... I can only think of the word embarrassed to express my feelings about this.
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That was a joke right?
On the Apple site it's under support/discussion..wow i figured everyone knew apple had a forum for it's products.
<strong>There was a time when Mac users were thought to on the whole be a classy lot. This is pretty embarassing.</strong><hr></blockquote>
*fart*
pardon me. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
mika.
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*fart*
pardon me. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
mika.</strong><hr></blockquote>
LOL now we know why you have "Killa" in your name!
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<strong>well what do ya expect? they don't have mods the way we got em
Too right. I'd have broken their legs by now
Wonderful stuff. Maybe not everyone shares my appreciation for humor, but this is just to delicious. It also proves that to a degree, it isn't just people on the fringe (in AI threads) that are complaining about Apple's hardware, prices, and policies, but a lot of loyal customers. How loyal will these people be next time around? We can dismiss it, but we have to recognize that some of it speaks to Apple's ever (slowly, but steadily) shrinking market share.
That's funny as hell. If the boys at Apple spent ore time reading their own boards instead of these ones, they might have caught that.
OTOH, it might show that the general online mac community dissatisfaction is spreading a lot further than I thought it could. Keep up the good work. Maybe all our complaining really can harm Apple. Maybe Steve hates us for a reason afterall, and I think AI is at the forefront of spreading mac dissolusionment (<-- not a real word, iThink). Well done indeed. Without a little push I don't think Apple will ever get their hardware and pricing into a respectable form.
MUHAHAHAHA!!!
Look upon my work Steve, and despair, for I am a scourge upon your anemic hardware and pretentious pricing. MUHAHAHA!!!
Ok, me tired, that dumb (if true) Goodnight all. Maybe Apple should hire Jamie (Sometimes it's like you're omnipresent <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> )
A LOt of those posting there are boys between the ages of 12-18. They're the ones posting "F*CK YOU STEVE JOBS" and other rubbish. They're getting away with it right now because it's the weekend. Expect the posts to be gone on Monday morning. Perhaps others are more interested as you said in hurting Apple than really making a point about the .Mac pricing. I guess I don't get that.
They're not really any different than most of the Mac web.
Except that they're on apple.com. I don't see anything funny about that. There were reports of them being deleted on Thursday and Friday and that garbage will disappear on Monday as well.
Guess I'm just a dumb "loyalist." But I've also thought I had good reason to be. I own PCs and Macs. I liked the satire, the play of .Mac on .Net.. The Switch adv. with "will" the prOn star was great.
Then after the Keynote people started flipping out over losing a free email account. A few have legitimate reasons. The rest are acting like donkeys braying at the moon and those threads on Apple's own *support* site are disgusting.
I watched the Keynote on QT then listened to the financial thing on QT audio later. Childish.
Or trying to sell computers saying "look at all the cool stuff you get free for buying this."
But no, I think it was definitely altruism on their part.
<strong>There was a time when Mac users were thought to on the whole be a classy lot. This is pretty embarassing.</strong><hr></blockquote>
The majority of them are probbally "Switch Users".