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Intelligent Editorial: Apple Secrets They Don’t Want You To Know

Sat, Apr 5, 2008

Adv. Tips, Mac News, Quick Tips, Ranting

    By: Andrew Case

Hmmmm… It seems to me that many Apple users do NOT know many different secrets about Apple! I, as a Mac user for less than a year, actually do!

Maybe I am crazy. Maybe I am just not seasoned as a Mac user. I have no idea. But from what I see these are just a few o the mentalities and thought processes going on in the typical Apple users mind. And yes, I own a Mac and love it much more than any Windows computer I have ever used.

1. Stephen P. Jobs is NOT God. (I know, it is truly amazing to me too. He did have family of direct relation though! Great right!?)

2. sjobs@apple.com is NOT Steves E-Mail address. Don’t bother thinking it is him and E-Mailing it just to ask.

3.Apple does not care about it’s customers. (Your customer service rep may, but they don’t. They care about their shiny new Ferraris in the parking lot and the stockholders.

4.You are not “special” for owning a Mac. Get over it.

5. You do not need to throw a party for your MacBook’s birthday.

6. Steve Jobs is not friendly to anyone but the people who can make his life Hell.

7. Putting you iPod in debug mode does NOT mean you are teh u|33r 1337 h4×0r of iPods. It means you can read.

8. People who cannot get their Mac to work should not be condemned to Hell. (Just Apple customer service which is quite close lately.)

9. Not everyone can afford or wants the newest shiny Mac.

10. Not every single new patent means that there is a new Mac/ other random device is to be expected. CHILL!

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    That's it, go ahead and take all the fun out of being one of God's chosen ones.
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    Here are some secrets for you.

    1. Mac-users do not think Jobs is god. They do however think he is extraordinary businessman on par with other legendary/visionary industrialists such as Thomas Edison, Howard Hugh, etc. Quite an amazing man, really.

    2. stevejobs@apple.com gets results. I have emailed this address 3 times in the past 3 years and gotten a response twice. Once directly from Jobs. The other time I was just recently when I complained about the trashed out condition of a Mac display at Best Buy. The only contact I made was to this address and the next day, I was contacted by both the regional manager at Best Buy and the Apple head in charge of the Best Buy initiative. They were very apologetic and seemed to be shaken by someone above them.

    3. Apple does care very much about their customers as evidenced by several satisfaction ratings for both products and service. Their record is not perfect, but it is a huge company.

    4. You will find people think they are special for knowing Windows minutia as well as owning a Mac. But those are just individuals. But do not blanket the entire userbase with this affliction just because they have enthusiasm for the product.

    5. Wha?

    6. Conjecture on your part. Do you know him personally?

    7. Meaningless.

    8. See #3.

    9. True. So what.

    10. True again. Columnists are always trying find things out because Apple is so secretive. It is annoying but entertaining.

    Mac enthusiasts are always branded as crazed zealots but I think for the most part they are merely enthusiastic. Certainly less bad and annoying than the haters. So back at you on the CHILL.
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    This post made me LOL. I don't think Mac users come out thinking they are special but the "exotic" appeal of non-Mac users towards a Mac computer can make one feel pretty special. Also, I have met a lot of people in my office who outright hate Macs (for no reason) so it can make you feel like an outcast and you know how outcasts love to create their own outcast group! :)

    Btw, Apple Support has been really spotty lately.
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    Is the author of this blog thirteen years old? Geeze. What some people will do for a hit on their website.

    Hey Andrew! Come up from the basement. Your mommy has cookies for you.
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    And I thought that there might actually be something useful here, when I saw the link referenced elsewhere. It goes to show you how popular Apple is getting to be -- that all the muckrakers and nay-sayings and inane (and insane) commentators just put the word "Apple" in an article just to get hits.

    I'm going to have to be more discriminating in regards to the riff-raff who try to pose as something having "quality" simply by stating the word "Apple"....

    I know Apple and you ain't no Apple... LOL...
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    "...does not care about it’s customers.."
    Should be:
    ...does not care about its customers...".

    The possessive form of "it" is "its", not "it's".
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    @patrick thanks for your concern. we've picked up two editors this week, so hopefully these things will be rectified in the future.

    Thanks.
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    Just basic grammar. Should not need an editor for that.
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    @Don, thanks for the vote of confidence, but it has happened in a lot of other posts, so I thought it would be in our best interest to have a second set of eyes looking over everyone's work. Moving forward, I think it's better this way.
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    Here is apple support for you...

    I am writing you in hope to get a resolution to this ongoing problem. I have a case open since beginning of 2006 when I first installed 10.4 server. I work for a school in San Diego and we bought multiple copies of 10.4 server. The problem is that the print quotas advertise in 10.4 won't work at all and they are also advertise in 10.5 server and guess what they don't work in 10.5 server either. I'll keep it short one last thing you are selling a product that does not work as advertise, I am surprise that a class action law suit has not been started on this. I hope to have a resolution soon we have lost money by purchasing your product why? It's does not work so we gave you money and got nothing back second since your tech support has done nothing about it we have lost money from all the toner and paper wasted.

    Jose Cerna


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    From: Cerna Jose
    Sent: Fri 4/4/2008 11:19 AM
    To: Joshua Rude
    Subject: RE: Print Server


    Josh when I called today they gave me this case number new 95283515.

    Jose Cerna



    -----Original Message-----
    From: Joshua Rude [mailto:rude@apple.com]
    Sent: Thu 3/27/2008 1:57 PM
    To: Cerna Jose
    Subject: Re: Print Server

    Do you remember the name of the AppleCare Rep. you talked to?

    On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Cerna Jose wrote:
    > Josh I called them again and this is what the engineer responded.
    >
    > The printer drivers are the problem, apple cannot be responsible for
    > manufacture drivers (HP).
    >
    > Let me give you an update of what I have discovered.
    >
    > If you use any of the manufacturer drivers (i tested all major
    > brands HP, brother, etc) on the client and the server this is what
    > happens:
    > Client and Server - print quotas don't work at all and you cant use
    > special options like print form manual tray
    > Client only Server Generic driver - print quotas don't work at all
    > and you cant use special options like print form manual tray
    > Client and Server Generic driver - print quotas work and you can
    > send jobs to manual tray, but we still have the problem that it does
    > not count the number of copies.
    >
    > I asked to be given a new case number and i was Denied. He said he
    > was going to try to continue work on the print quotas using Generic
    > drivers only. I am afraid using a generic driver cause other problems.
    >
    > To me it is irrelevant that the manufacturer drivers don't work
    > because none of them do, at least not one that I could find. Do each
    > manufacturer need to make an specific driver just so apple's print
    > quotas can work? I would think that apple being the ones making the
    > print server application would have tested and worked around the
    > manufacturer drivers.
    >
    > I know that the workaround in 10.4 is to use appletalk but that's
    > not an option for us. I need to use LPR or IPP and SMB for the
    > windows clients, I have not had a chance to test the quotas using
    > windows clients so I guess I should. I will keep calling apple care
    > to get updates I'll keep you posted if you can please escalate this
    > it will be help full.
    >
    >
    > Thank you
    > Jose Cerna
    >
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Joshua Rude [mailto:rude@apple.com]
    > Sent: Tue 3/25/2008 11:22 AM
    > To: Cerna Jose
    > Subject: Re: Print Server
    >
    >
    > The quota, not counting copies, issue for 10.5 server requires a new
    > case. AppleCare would like for you to contact them.
    >
    > The previous issue Quotas not working for LPR queues was resolved in
    > 10.5. Engineering has not addressed the issue under 10.4.x . The
    > workaround in 10.4.x is to use Appletalk instead of LPR.
    >
    > Please send me the new case number for the counting copies.
    >
    > On Mar 14, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Cerna Jose wrote:
    >> Print Server:
    >>
    >> 10.4- Print quotas never resolved
    >>
    >> 10.5- Print quotas work but only if you sent the jobs one at a time.
    >> Example - Quota is 10 pages, I can send a multiple jobs that are one
    >> page each and when i sent ten jobs my quota would be reach
    >> (1x10=10pages). Or I can send ten jobs all 1 page each but ask for
    >> 100 copies of each job and my quota will reach only after i send the
    >> 10th job (10x100=1000pages) so the quota is working but it does not
    >> take into account the 100 copies asks it counts it as one page.
    >>
    >> Can you please send me the information on getting the iBooks to wait
    >> longer to logon so they get all information from the server and also
    >> do you know of a way to manually connect to a windows shared
    >> printer. I can do this in10.3 and 10.4 but not 10.5. Thank you for
    >> all your help Josh and I am sorry to keep going back to you about
    >> the print quotas but now more than ever we need to conserve
    >> resources and our principle does not like that we paid for this and
    >> we can't use it.
    >>
    >
    > --
    > Joshua Rude
    > Senior Systems Engineer: ACTC, ACSA
    > K-12 Education
    > Apple Inc.
    > 1.760.476.9879
    > E-Mail: rude@apple.com
    >
    > Macintosh. The shortest distance from inspiration to reality.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >

    --
    Joshua Rude
    Senior Systems Engineer: ACTC, ACSA
    K-12 Education
    Apple Inc.
    1.760.476.9879
    E-Mail: rude@apple.com

    Macintosh. The shortest distance from inspiration to reality.
 

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