Thanks, Bob, for your kind, supportive thoughts.
Can you empathize with those Apple folk charged with the burden of handling millions of crash reports daily?
Then imagine having the burden of the direct reports from people demanding attention from Apple right now. After the millionth call is received, it might become a little difficult to remain nice to the complaining callers. Fire fighting...
There's an understanding required pertaining to the often antagonistic environment we find in the use of the world-wide web. Apple cannot dictate to web site developers on matters of scripting error avoidance, especially when there are those among us who may deliberately intend to block access from iPad owners - possibly for reasons deemed to be good, or good enough. There are also those who fully intend to do Apple product users harm, if they can, and even orchestrate wide-spread efforts designed to maximize their impact. Suffice it to say that Apple, Inc. has competitors. Might people like those over at Consumer Reports be making their living by being antagonistic?
The cry baby effort being observed here in this forum serves to enflame the public perception of difficult software issues, and to some extent, all the crying I'm reading about seems a bit too contrived to me. An iPad owner should grasp the idea that there are places on the web, and elsewhere, where it is not safe to go and play with an iPad. Further, repeatedly going back to websites known to cause crashes is a measure of idiocy and, surely, Apple can't be expected to correct all the idiocy in the world.
If a user discovers a web site that causes an iPad to crash time and again, then that user might do us all a great service by emailing that web site's IT office and kindly conveying the idea that the web site's errors are causing problems for the iPad and the problems ought to be fixed. (Again, some sites may not intend to be supportive of Apple's products, ever. Welcome to Apple's world.)
Apple has employees who have spent careers working for entities like The National Security Agency. And some of Apple's problematic issues warrant that level of expertise and experience. For example, if the South Korean security agencies should decide to attack Apple's realm for reasons they deem competitively useful, then we must become aware and fully knowledgeable before effective countermeasures might be put in place. Users may cry all they wish but it will not help; a certain period is required to deal with a complex issue in the requisite sense.
The people at Apple, Inc., and every iPad owner, too, want these software issues dealt with in the requisite sense. I'm reasonably sure Steve Jobs himself would have demanded such before he might make any public acknowledgement of an issue.
Apple has a vested interest here; I say, let it work.
