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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 07/01/06 00:46
"Mr. Tapeguy" <mr.tapeguy@pro-tape.com> wrote in
news:1151646996.699525.47210@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
>
> doc wrote:
>> Good God Tapeguy, you and WD sure can miss the life of a realtime
>> "good working relationship" Can't you stop for one minute to go
>> beyond that world of inside the box Mac thinking?
>
>
> I don't want to speak for Bill but I think the bottom line comes
> down to this:
>
> 1) Bill is skeptical (to say the least) because he does not know
> who you really are and since you don't make it public, he
> questions your statements. I, of course do, because you have
> been kind enough to do business with us and I am not going to
> publish your information. I take you at your word as to what
> you've done even if I disagree with the way you have extrapolated
> the experience to that of Apple users as a whole.
>
> 2) I do not question that you had a bad experience with your
> Apple setup. If I had sold you the systems your experience would
> have been different. Regardless it REALLY isn't the norm. I have
> never once sold a Final Cut setup, or for that matter a Mac-based
> Avid or Pro Tools rig that someone came back and said "This thing
> isn't working." We've had an instance of bad RAM and one or two
> other minor difficulties. Then there was one guy who had been
> using a Casablanca and bought an iMac and Final Cut and said his
> video was dropping frames. Turned out his camcorder was bought in
> a pawn shop and the inside of the machines smelled like smoke.
> But hey, I didn't want to leave him out.
>
> I'm not going to question or challenge your experience any
> further; however where I disagree with you as to the big picture I
> will continue to relate what I experience personally and more
> importantly, in the marketplace as a whole.
>
> I don't think I'm inside the Apple box. I simply haven't had, nor
> have any of our Apple customers had, nor had anyone previously
> mentioned to me about their Apple experience anything remotely
> resembling what you describe. In fact, more than once I have been
> sitting at a bar talking to a complete stranger who learns what I
> do and starts talking about how he got his new Dell (or whatever)
> and when he hooked up his printer, yadda yadda yadda, the drivers
> wouldn't work and blah blah blah - like something out of an Apple
> ad - except it's real. If that makes me inside the Apple box,
> well the hell with it, I'm guilty.
>
> You know my situation - you know what my dealings with Apple are
> like and I'd sure as heck make more money custom-building
> Windows-based systems. I've talked to dealers who won't carry
> Apple unless you hold their feet to the fire and it ain't about
> problems - it's about margin.
> So when I speak from inside this proverbial box, it's not because
> I'm
> trying to sell something. It's because I'm honest about not just
> MY experience but what I've been seeing and hearing for 20 years.
>
> Anyhoo, we're beating a dead horse. I'm going to say "uncle" at
> this point. The discussion was worthy and I appreciate your time
> and feedback as opposed to the drivel of my favorite newgroup
> troll, may he take his sabbatical in peace.
>
> Craig
>
> http://www.pro-tape.com
In your posts in this thread, I see honest disagreement, sometimes
very strongly expressed, but still a willingness to meet your
opponent partway, and a bit of openness to another point of view
(even if it's wrong as you see it).
I can handle that, as an observer of this thread.
Thanks, Mr Tapeguy. It helps.
--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) ... letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
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