[DM-MUG] Why its hard to buy Macs - by a bit of a dullard apparently

[jim Lagnese]

Apple has a bad habit of hiring people that have stronger marketing and
presentation skills than technical skills. In my previous job, Apple
assigned a System Engineer to our account and for someone with so many years
experience, he was worthless. He was great for showing off new stuff, and
taking us out to lunch, but terrible for solving problems. As Ben Franklin
said, " a fish stinks from the head." I guess Steve Jobs wants all flash and
nothing between the ears.



> From: "Victoria L. Herring" <VLHerring@HerringLaw.com>
> Reply-To: dmmug@dmmug.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:09:27 -0600
> To: dmmug@dmmug.org
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Why its hard to buy Macs - by a bit of a dullard
> apparently
> 
> At 8:33 PM -0800 or thereabouts on 12/15/03, <edkelly@netins.net>
> sent an email winging my way.....................................
>> The following was very interesting, written by Jerry Pournelle, who
>> always wrote the NEW USER column for Byte Magazine for years, until
>> he was no longer a new user.  He is a bit of a curmudgeon
> 
> I think he sounds like someone who thinks He Is God's Gift to the
> World and Don't You Forget It [me, I never heard of the guy] and got
> his nose out of joint when he couldn't introduce himself and the
> sales person/woman was not suitably impressed and groveling
> immediately upon his entry in the door.  I'm sorry for his problems
> [why someone would need to ask Apple PR where to buy a Mac and not
> just go to a usual reseller or  the web and look it up is beyond me],
> but they appear to be of his own making.
> 
>> 
>> I have had no instructions whatever. I brought the machine home and
>> turned it on.
> 
> Duh!  It's not unlike getting a new model of a car...bring it home
> and turn it on - why would he need spiffy new instructions???  If
> this were a complaint of someone who had never touched a computer, I
> could understand but since he is a guru of sorts, apparently, why's
> his nose out of joint?
> 
>> but I sure wish I had gone to Fry's:
> - so why did't he....
> 
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