Keith –
Wow, where to start. [NOTE: I was going to print your comments so that I could refer to each of them individually as I Reply. But gosh, I then realized YOU CAN NO LONGER PRINT from the iPad!
So here goes, as best as I can recall…
Regarding ‘internet trolling’ – since I’ve only ever written to 3 (now 4) Blogs/Forums, I think this tag may not fit.
Regarding ‘smug, misinformed’ – could be, but where I stated actual facts and you only gave me emotion so it’s hard to discern which of us is the most misinformed.
Regarding ‘tribalist’ – I’m an engineer, I haveno idea what this means.
Regarding ‘ONE screwed up issue’– could we at least agree that it’s a pretty big ‘ONE issue?’ I mean would you buy a Laptop or MacBook and NOT expect that it would allow printing? And let’s not lose perspective here. Apple HAS THE CAPABILITY to allow printing; at least 9,262 of us have been using it. Apple has PURPOSELY CHOOSEN to steal it away from us. It shouldn’t require a rocket scientist to recognize this was not a mistake. It was a planned, proactive action taken by Apple because they know more than their customers about how their customers should use their products. [Plus it’s a kick-back to all the printer manufactures whom Apple bamboozled into believing that AirPrint printing is the ONLY way to print. Since obviously Apples customers didn’t agree with that philosophy, Apple had to take this step to insure that “AirPrin tprinting is the ONLY way we can print.”
Regarding ‘bold text’ – You should thank Apple for that. I tried to ‘bold’ one word. I mistakenly ‘bolded’ the entire text. When I tried to un-do the bold text, it wouldn’t work. [They must have also removed the ‘un-bolding’ capability when they stole our ability to print.]
Regarding ‘convert people to your point of view?’– Hardly. What kind of a world would that be? I will share this though. I used to sell technology to Apple back in the 80’s when they were developing the first Mac. I’ll give Apple this, they may have had their up’s and down’s over the years but their know-it-all arrogance has never waned. [I think they never got over the fact that they couldn’t develop the technology that they had to acquire from my company. So, ok, maybe I do have history with Apple, and I'll probably have to concede the “personal beef” charge.]
Regarding ‘spelling errors’ – I gotta give you that one too. As noted above, I’m an engineer by degree [and in Sales by greed! :-) ]
Regarding ‘what did you hope to accomplish’ – Since you’ve stated that this “forum doesn't seem to be worth monitoring” you may not read this, but for the rest, here goes. As I’ve noted I’m in Sales. Let’s, just for a moment, assume you’re in Sales and your company has just introduced an “upgrade” to your latest and greatest, fast selling product that disables a primary, base line capability. Approximately 10,000 of your customers have shown at least a passing interest in a) what happened to this heavily used ‘base line capability,’ or b) are looking for some sort of ‘work around’ because they all (initially, in their heart of hearts) believe that this has got to just be a mistake, right?
Of those 10,000 uneasy customers, at least 65 have written to your company to express their concern, plead for your help, ask for restoration of this primary capability. What does your company do?
Well, 4 to 5 months later, Apple’s response is … nothing. Maybe my comments were meant to arouse the other 9,000 who have viewed this forum to direct their rightful anger, their disillusionment toward Apple, and paraphrasing the famous line from the movie Network, tell Apple “We’re mad as h___ and we’re not going to take it anymore!”
So you tell me. Does Apple care about their customers? Or do they just take us all for granted? I still love my iPad for how I use it... except it's now an absolute PITA to print anything that I used to do seemlessly.
Have a great day.