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Photonerd: You just answered your own question:
Most PC users don't even care about Zune so why would Mac users care, other than to make fun of MS?
ZuneGate ?08: What really happened
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punkboat 
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Posted 06 January 2009 - 09:07 AM
dbater did a survey or something? There's a difference between "I don't care about this but I'm going to comment anyway" and "not enough people care." Some of us like to know how things work, and how they break. It's rare that we get a glimpse into the actual code behind a bug. I enjoyed the glimpse.
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whitedog
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Posted 07 January 2009 - 04:13 AM
punkboat said:
dbater did a survey or something? There's a difference between "I don't care about this but I'm going to comment anyway" and "not enough people care." Some of us like to know how things work, and how they break. It's rare that we get a glimpse into the actual code behind a bug. I enjoyed the glimpse.
Ditto.
It never ceases to amaze me that people who feign no interest in a subject nevertheless go to the trouble of posting about how they don't care. Duh!
As for making fun of Microsoft, at least that's entertaining - sometimes. My feeling, though, is that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. It was but a few months ago that Apple badly botched the Mobile Me rollout - and that doubtless affected many more people than a Zune firmware glitch - which apparently was actually Toshiba's fault, not Microsoft's. And the Mobile Me problems took much longer to fix.
Speaking of Toshiba, wasn't it they who, a few years ago, produced a big batch of bad laptop batteries that affected many Mac laptop computers and many millions more PC's?
When it comes to industrial strength screw-ups, Microsoft is hardly alone, nor even the worst offender. Have you looked at the american auto industry lately? Or our banking system? Of course, Microsoft was primarily responsible for the Y2K bug that threatened a millennial sized disaster. But it was discovered and repaired in time. And it provided work for tens of thousands of programmers who would otherwise have been out of work due to the dot-com bust. It's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody good. ;-)
