[Ipg-smz] Why I love Apple?

Thu Jan 17 16:58:42 UTC 2019

My roommate is 62, completely not technically inclined, and she'd been 
running Linux on her laptop for a couple of years now and is pretty much 
a whiz with Android.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
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On 1/17/19 10:18 AM, Scott Koegler wrote:
> Hi ipg-smz,
> 
> Ditto my own 70 yr old experience. But to be fair, anyone on this list, 
> regardless of their age, is not the typical user at any age.
> 
> . . .
> Scott Koegler
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> 
> On Jan 17, 2019, at 10:16 AM, Lynn Greiner <ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
> 
>> Define “older person”. I know 30 year-olds who can’t cope with their 
>> phones, and 80 year-olds who do tech support for the kids. I 
>> cheerfully mock a colleague, a decade younger than me, who relies on 
>> me to help him with WiFi at conferences.
>>
>> *From:* Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> *On Behalf Of *Perlow, 
>> Jason
>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 17, 2019 9:55 AM
>> *To:* IPG List <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] Why I love Apple?
>>
>> Their customer service is excellent. That's why I also use their stuff 
>> (although not exclusively) and recommend it to many other people. For 
>> pure end-users it's excellent. Their mobile platform has its issues 
>> but otherwise, very much the same recommendation. I would never give 
>> Android to an older person, it's far too complicated -- although I 
>> have given Chromebooks to a number of elderly. Other people want 
>> things that can be more easily customized or adapted. But its an 
>> excellent platform of products for 80 to 90 percent of the people out 
>> there in the consumer and content producer space. In the enterprise, 
>> not so much.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:06 AM arnieswap at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:arnieswap at gmail.com> <arnieswap at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:arnieswap at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     As someone who has been hardcore Desktop Linux user and Advocate,
>>     I am kind of loving Apple. People say Apple is not for
>>     professionals and its toys. But today I had an amazing experience
>>     with Apple and it was NOT about their hardware (BTW, Google Pixel
>>     costs as much as MacBook and can't do half of the stuff). So I
>>     moved from Adobe Premiere to FCPX and I had some issues. I work on
>>     a video on my MacBook Pro and save it as a project so I can
>>     revisit or make changes in future if needed.  I have a Linux
>>     server for over 50TB where I store all my such files. However,
>>     when I bring the files back to my Mack to edit, the external
>>     plugins will show error. I did find a workaround (macOS being
>>     UNIX, everything is a file)....but I wanted a solution so I left a
>>     message to Apple and they called me back at 9 am. He went through
>>     the whole issue, we spend almost 45 minutes on the phone where he
>>     tried to solve the issue and it seems that the ext4/BTRF file
>>     system might be messing up with the bundled files and may break
>>     the structure. He gave great tips about best practices and so one.
>>     As a  multimedia professional, my problem was solved over the
>>     phone. And they CALLED. Last time I had a hardware related issue
>>     and they fixed it and this time I had a software related problem
>>     and they solved it.
>>
>>     Just wanted to share this story. I am NOT an Apple fan or Google
>>     fan or Microsoft fan. I am just a user, and I would LOVE the
>>     company who will help me and *not* charge for it. More than
>>     anything, it's nice to see there is someone to get help from.
>>
>>     Best Regards,
>>
>>
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