[Alpine-info] Alpine on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch

[Mark Crispin]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> Well, then don't complain about "buggy" software, if you're unwilling to give

> the details about the supposed bugs and actually help get it fixed.


I gave Apple details about bugs.  Apple ignored them.

I've given up complaining about the bugs in Apple software.  I'm more 
interesting in promoting alternatives, preferably open-source alternative.


> (semi-rhetorical -- if you disparage the iPhone so much, why use it?  BTW, I

> use my [free] iPhone essentially as an iPod Touch, just because I already have

> a different prepaid phone.)


It is not possible to evaluate a product effectively without using it.

Apple ought to listen to its critics.  You don't get good product feedback 
from sycophantic fanboys.  Apple should have learned that lesson from the 
early 1990s.

The competition is listening.

-- Mark --

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