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To: OrionX who wrote (56305)8/25/2006 4:11:25 AM
From: Doren  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 213186
 
almost

Not exactly.

Don't overlook the fact that Apple has the luxury of integrating it's operating systems with the hardware.

And the hardware itself is still designed better.

The devices may be built by the same companies but it's the difference between an architect who has been a contractor and an architect who has learned everything from books. The longer I watch Apple the more I appreciate their design acumen and it continues to improve. Apple learns from it's constant experimentation.

I was a subcontractor and some of the specs from architects were hard to believe. On good jobs you literally hear people whistling while they work. On bad jobs things get so bad fights occasionally break out among frustrated subs.

I'm sure Apple's contractors feel the same. "Yeah the Apple runs are gravy." Rather than "Oh No! another Dell nightmare run." Probably it's felt even more on the assembly line where widgets have to fit. You can just imagine what fitting a widget into an impossible position must be like 8 hours a day every single day. On a idiotically designed product one would feel like RAMMING the thing in once in a while just for revenge.

Subs go out of their way to do quality work for good contractors.



To: OrionX who wrote (56305)8/25/2006 9:46:45 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 213186
 
>>This story about the batteries is primarily a fault of Sony but just as much a fault of Apple who didn't test the crap out of the batteries.<<

Orion -

The battery problem is a manufacturing defect, that most likely would not have shown up in any pre-production sample run. Thus, I don't think we can fault either Dell or Apple.

- Allen