Steve Jobs -2011

8 Oct 2011

...

 I have no liking of Apple products : 

 I regard them as being difficult to do anything useful with (my esperience
 is that they make easy jobs trivial and diffiuclt jobs impossible). 
  I find that hard to believe.  These beasties run Unix, you can script
 almost anything.  Even the GUI is scriptable.  I prefer OS X or Linux
 over the evil OS from Redmond.
 Or are you talking about pre-OS X? 
Yes, I was thinking about pre-OSX for desktop Apple machines. I am told 
that OSX does have an accessible unix shell :-). However, their portable 
devices don't seem to have any such shell, they don't seem to have 
anything that makes them useful for difficult tasks
...
   I don't
like the way they make things hacker-unfriendly -- hard to open 
 cases, no expansion slots, no proper documetnion, etc.  
 Add proprietary screws, irreplaceable batteries, having to use a heat 
How propretary? I've been known ot make special tools in the past to get 
screws out. But yes, I prefer manufacturers who use something standard 
(I do regard Torx as standard, in fact I like them).

How are the batteries irreplacable? I've seen replacement batteries for 
Ipods, on sale over here/

...
  gun and suction cup to remove screens.

:-(. Mind you, some of the HP calculators Ilove ar heat-staked together 
(or at lest have the PCB heat-staked in place). Other manufactuers may 
not be very repairer-friendly.

-tony

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Steve Jobs -2011