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From: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
i love the business plan of preventing the users from getting what they want. i think all my competitors should follow it.
Strawman, Randy. Clearly, the Internet is *not* up to the task of 1) updating several dozen million devices 2) on links of various quality, 3) with 650MB to 1.2GB downloads and 4) a client that doesn't understand how to restart 5) all at once, cause, over all, it went very poorly. The people negatively impacted by that poor engineering planning on Apple's part *are Apple's customers*, quite apart from any negative impact it had on Everyone Else. Fixing 4 (which is an easy engineering issue) and 5 (which is an operations policy issue that, by and large, most people in that situation understand), *would have had a direct positive effect on Apple's paying customers*. "Preventing them from getting what they want" is made up, and I'm pretty sure you know that. Staging FW update rollouts over networks is old hat. Even I know better than to make that mistake, and I don't know anything. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274