Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Apple Apologist Deletes Discussion Post


Apple fans get a bit touchy when Windows users criticise their beloved Macs - I know, because I am one of them. But when, after two months of misery, I posted a response in the following thread, the post was deleted for containing 'Non-constructive rants or complaints':

Lion Flaky, Frequent Reboots

If there weren't thousands of posts on the discussions complaining of just what a pile of shite Lion is, it might not be so funny that officious fanboys feel that they have to resort to censorship.

My post:

Welcome to Club Disillusioned.

I have been using Macs for 27 years and I have never experienced such a frustrating couple of months. Every day, I am having to put up with problems which are being experienced by many others who have posted on here.

You will encounter a disperate band of Lion Problem Deniers who, lucky for them, don't have any issues - maybe they only use their Macs to watch YouTube videos and check their e-mail and don't have important work which is being jeopardised by an unco-operating system like Lion.

Installing it is the biggest regret in 27 years of Mac use. I hate it. I never had such a consistently slow, unstable, clunky, broken down computer in my life (including the pre-Mac years using a BBC Micro B and a Dragon 32). The SBBoD is a constant feature and every time I see it, I anticipate the relevant application or Finder to crash and I am sick to death of having to reboot just to get the WiFi working again. And Safari is just one massive bug with an icon and a .app suffix.

I have reinstalled Lion over a dozen times and look on here daily to seek out new, untried remedies - so, please don't suggest I zap the PRAM, repair disk permissions or any of the numerous other oft repeated tips!

If I hadn't had my escape back to Snow Leopard cut off by Time Machine being dysfunctional for a month and then destroying my Snow Leopard backups, I would not be lurking on here looking for answers!

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