I wrote:
Please describe to us, in plain English (oops, sorry...strike that last phrase! — and by the way, I have no problem with the way you write our language, just the attitude behind it), the sheer havoc that would result if Lion 10.3 comes out with Auto Save/Versioning as the default, but able to be disabled via System Preferences.
Please be very specific in your description.
KOENIG Yvan replied:
I already wrote several times but you appear to be unable to understand that a safety device must be available every time.
etc. etc. (i.e., ridiculous examples with no pertinence whatsoever to a computing environment)
As AutoSave and Versions were designed as safety features, they make sense only if they are always active.
As usual, you have utterly failed to answer my question as posed.
I asked for a specific description. I asked you to describe the havoc that would ensue if Auto Save/Versioning were the default, but capable of being turned off.
Under this scheme, if a user does nothing after installing Lion, then all of your precious "safety features" you apparently feel the world needs to save itself from itself remain intact.
If I as a user choose to disable these features, then guess what happens: I return to the very same Macintosh computing universe I have happily existed in FOR THE PAST 23 YEARS. In the course of that time frame, I and millions of other Macintosh users have somehow managed the extraordinary effort of keying Command-S every so often.
And guess what else: if I have occasionally failed to do this as judiciously as I should have and have lost work, then SHAME ON ME. *I* will take the blame; I won't shove it off on my operating system and say it has failed me and should have saved me from my own stupidity.
So once again I ask you: tell me EXACTLY what will happen if Auto Save/Versioning is the default in Lion but is capable of being disabled at the user's choice. I want a detailed description of the scenerios of chaos, broken lives and worldwide mayhem you believe will descend like a plague upon the earth.
I predict that, in typical fashion, you'll simply ignore this request, as you've done time and time again when you have no answer. We'll be watching.
Meanwhile, your repeated singing of the same song is getting extemely tedious. I don't want to hear your facile "You're free to use other products" mantra any more. I happen to like Pages very much. It has been my default Word Processor every day of my working life since I finally had to abandon WriteNow with the demise of Classic support. If you please, point me to a Word Processor with Pages' particular mix of capabilities that will fit my workflow comparably.
You won't be able to do it. And you'll have an even more difficult time pointing the Keynote user for whom Auto Save has rendered the program unusable (and whose plight you have ignored, just exactly as I said you would in my last post) to a program with its comparable ease of use.
Like so many others here, I have been a great lover of Apple's hardware, system software and productivity products for a very long time. When they mess with them in a way that makes them less productive, more difficult, and in some cases out-and-out dangerous to use, then **** right I'm gonna complain about it.
And please spare us your other Greatest Hit: "Your complaints will do no good, Apple can do what it wants to do." Others have pointed out specific instances (which again you've conveniently failed to acknowledge) of consumer complaints resulting in changes.
Our hope is that a loud enough chorus of these complaints might yet effect a similar change in this instance. Our case is solid, our logic irrefutable. We can only hope that those with the power to make these decisions don't look at the world with your brand of myopic vision.
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