This post is pretty funny. As both a 24" iMac owner and a PC owner running Vista, you couldn't possibly be more wrong. "Validating" your copy of Windows takes all of 20 seconds if you're conected to the internet. Literally. So what if their server was down for 19 hours? It only affected 10,000 users out of hundreds of millions.
And, even if you can't "validate" right away, your copy still works for at least 30 days. And you can call and register if need be, which is automated and runs maybe 3 minutes, tops. This was nothing more than a minor inconvenience...all it meant was that you had to go back the next day, click your mouse twice and it was done.
It's also hilariously ironic considering Apple's ridiculous need to keep every single piece of software they create so propietary. Apple would do the exact same thing if their software could be used on any other computer. Oh wait...it can't. Apple already "squeezes more money out of their customers" by not even giving the simple option of installing it on anything but their hardware, therefore increasing their own profit margins.
Hell, I own one, I should know. But just because I bought an Apple computer doesn't mean I'm blind to their clear purpose - make more money by keeping people trapped in buying only Apple hardware/software.
You guys just keep kidding yourselves into believing Apple is so much better than Microsoft. It's all the same to me.
This is pretty damn funny...
This post is pretty funny. As both a 24" iMac owner and a PC owner running Vista, you couldn't possibly be more wrong. "Validating" your copy of Windows takes all of 20 seconds if you're conected to the internet. Literally. So what if their server was down for 19 hours? It only affected 10,000 users out of hundreds of millions.
And, even if you can't "validate" right away, your copy still works for at least 30 days. And you can call and register if need be, which is automated and runs maybe 3 minutes, tops. This was nothing more than a minor inconvenience...all it meant was that you had to go back the next day, click your mouse twice and it was done.
It's also hilariously ironic considering Apple's ridiculous need to keep every single piece of software they create so propietary. Apple would do the exact same thing if their software could be used on any other computer. Oh wait...it can't. Apple already "squeezes more money out of their customers" by not even giving the simple option of installing it on anything but their hardware, therefore increasing their own profit margins.
Hell, I own one, I should know. But just because I bought an Apple computer doesn't mean I'm blind to their clear purpose - make more money by keeping people trapped in buying only Apple hardware/software.
You guys just keep kidding yourselves into believing Apple is so much better than Microsoft. It's all the same to me.