No Firewire; many possible problems

srjmac wrote:
Why are you here? What's your interest in arguing with us? You obviously don't care whether the Macbook has Firewire. What's your point?

Why are YOU here? This is supposed to be a user to user forum where members offer each other help with the Macs that they have or plan to buy, not your personal homebase to bash Apple's marketing strategy or rant on what you WON'T buy. I suggest you reread the usage policy you agreed to when you signed up for this forum.
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nullandvoid wrote:

srjmac wrote:
Why are you here? What's your interest in arguing with us? You obviously don't care whether the Macbook has Firewire. What's your point?

Why are YOU here? This is supposed to be a user to user forum where members offer each other help with the Macs that they have or plan to buy, not your personal homebase to bash Apple's marketing strategy or rant on what you WON'T buy. I suggest you reread the usage policy you agreed to when you signed up for this forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa#terms

I asked you a question and you chose to try and turn it around again. If you don't want to have a reasonable discussion, if your only purpose is to annoy and provoke, you'll find that people will stop responding to you. I'm almost there.

Would you care to answer the question? Why are you here? What's your interest in arguing with us about Firewire?

srjmac wrote:

nullandvoid wrote:

srjmac wrote:
Why are you here? What's your interest in arguing with us? You obviously don't care whether the Macbook has Firewire. What's your point?

Why are YOU here? This is supposed to be a user to user forum where members offer each other help with the Macs that they have or plan to buy, not your personal homebase to bash Apple's marketing strategy or rant on what you WON'T buy. I suggest you reread the usage policy you agreed to when you signed up for this forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa#terms

I asked you a question and you chose to try and turn it around again. If you don't want to have a reasonable discussion, if your only purpose is to annoy and provoke, you'll find that people will stop responding to you. I'm almost there.

Ah, so now you are beginning to see how irritating and pointless "rants" are. Does that answer your question below?"

Would you care to answer the question? Why are you here? What's your interest in arguing with us about Firewire?

It's very interesting that some people simply cannot tolerate dissent--cannot resist resorting to a "love it or leave it" mentality when their picture of reality is disturbed. The notion that to complain about Apple's decision is simply "whining" is deeply offensive to all thinking people. Companies need their customers at least as much as customers need companies; and any company that ignores this simple fact does so at its own peril.

Nullandvoid would have us stuff our complaints and get in line like good little sheep. Not gonna happen. Of course, whether Apple pays any attention to this flood of customer complaints is another question entirely. But it would be very foolish of Apple (or any company fortunate enough to be in Apple's position) to squander one of its most uniquely valuable assets: the almost legendary good will of its customers.

nullandvoid wrote:

srjmac wrote:

nullandvoid wrote:

srjmac wrote:
Why are you here? What's your interest in arguing with us? You obviously don't care whether the Macbook has Firewire. What's your point?

Why are YOU here? This is supposed to be a user to user forum where members offer each other help with the Macs that they have or plan to buy, not your personal homebase to bash Apple's marketing strategy or rant on what you WON'T buy. I suggest you reread the usage policy you agreed to when you signed up for this forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa#terms

I asked you a question and you chose to try and turn it around again. If you don't want to have a reasonable discussion, if your only purpose is to annoy and provoke, you'll find that people will stop responding to you. I'm almost there.

Ah, so now you are beginning to see how irritating and pointless "rants" are. Does that answer your question below?"

Would you care to answer the question? Why are you here? What's your interest in arguing with us about Firewire?

Sorry -- you're making it abundantly clear that you have no real point and you aren't interested in discussion. Goodbye.

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Your mention of your petition counting over 16.000 participants was unfortunately censored by a moderator, who unfortunately did not leave his name or user name. Although your statement was formally correct and by no means offensive.

There may be duplicates on the petition, but I think that most people into firewire use more than one machine and possibly use it like yourself, to service other peoples machines. I can also confirm for mayself, I also signed this petition. And in my case I am also the main person family listens to when it comes to a total of at least 9 machines in three households.

Somehow I am seriously starting to worry about the censorship of even though critical, yet formally correct responses, which actually show the interest of products made by Apple. Even more so the will to continue to use them....

Dirk