In my neck of the woods, we've had access to broadband via wirelessįor less than two years. Not available, save for in some cases via prohibitively expensive Large spaces of even North America where broadband service is simply
Unfortunately, that's not an option for a lot of users, and there are With the 21st century" and upgrade your Internet service. The boilerplate throwaway riposte to complaints like this is to "get Literally millions (and probably billions) of Internet second-class Of course, telephone dial-up modems are obsolete technology,īut what Apple doggedly and obstinately refuses to acknowledge orĪccommodate is that they're necessary and non-optional technologies for Us either into the iCloud or throwing us under the bus. It judges to be obsolete technologies and its monomania about pushing It's this emulator that Apple has deliberatelyĬhosen not to support any longer - presumably out of contempt for what Proverbial wire) was merely a simple telephone line interface with theĪctual modem function emulated in the system software based on the Was sold from 2005 to 2009 (it seems I just got mine under the As it's been explained to me, the Apple USB Modem that Inference is that doing so would have been a relatively minor and
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Looks like it may be Apple's not bothering to rewrite the driver for The proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" deal-breaker Incompatibilities with legacy software and technologies that are still Looking more and more remote as the reality of its manifold However, in terms of Lion, this may all be academic for theįoreseeable future, since my upgrading to OS X 10.7 anytime soon is Locking the doors when you shift into Drive, to name just two examples,Īnnoy me profoundly, although in general I'm quite fond of the car. Into gear without your foot on the brake, and then automatically Grand Marquis, such as not being able to shift the automatic tranny I don't have a Prius, but the nannying "features" in my Mercury
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Manual-shift, manual everything, fix it yourself, control-freak kind of Reinforced by my underwhelmed-ness with the "magic" of the iOS on my Lion makes me feel I'm being chucked out of the driver'sĮxactly! My thus-far vicarious disaffection with Lion and theĭirection Apple is obviously bent on going with OS X is being I think of my computer more like an 1960s manual-shift VWīeetle: it does what I tell it, and I can often repair it if things go
Hybrid it's complicated under the hood, but in actual usage it just "Some people think of their computer as a Prius TidBITS' Matt Neuberg made an interesting and astute observation in a column lastįriday lamenting the iOSification of OS X 10.7 Lion, noting:
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