Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Apple Nerve

HTTP:: Apple Nerve
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Sure enough, Apple makes a good point in its latest Get a Mac ads targeting PC users’ upgrade to Windows 7. However, we have overlooked one tiny aspect about Apple’s own upgrade to Snow Leopard, and the company seems to act like nothing ever happened. You guessed it - it’s the data-eating bug affecting users who unknowingly upgraded to "the most advanced" OS out there only to find their user accounts wiped clean. After watching Apple’s latest Get a Mac ads, which capitalize on some of the fuss surrounding the Windows 7 upgrade process, we figured Apple was going to have another good Get-a-Mac year. Adding those angry comments over at Microsoft’s forum, I had just about every reason to laud Apple for the way it handled its customers and, implicitly, its business. However, while the ads don’t lie, Apple had quite a nerve posting them before addressing one of the most serious bugs ever to plague Mac OS X. Ironically, the bug affects those who upgraded to Snow Leo!
pard. Here’s what happened, just in case you haven’t been reading the tech news lately. Following the public launch of Mac OS X version 10.6 aka Snow Leopard, Apple Discussions (support forum) users started complaining of a Snow Leopard bug eating away their data. The wipeout happens when the user logs into the 'guest' acc...
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-Nerve-125362.shtml
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