Re:Apple's shortcomings (Score 1)

Your claim about the message board threads being deleted is repeated often and always makes people feel like "How dare they!" -- But it not sustainable. Yes, you can say that the thread was deleted, but people always attach a motive: "Apple doesn't want people to know about this!!!" Hello? If you look at their forums there are plenty of issues open that sound bad and unfixed. Every time I see a thread get deleted it is because it has become a crybaby fest where someone has seen this problem "all over the Internet." And someone else says, "Apple should do something about this. I can't believe there are thousands of computers out there with this problem!!!" or "Remember when Apple used to care about its customers?" I mean, seriously. That fact that you find 20 people on the web that had the same problem as you should not be an indicator that this is affecting thousands. Anyway, once a thread turns into slander than an honest attempt to provide information and seek remedies with a reasonable amount of self control I would delete them off the site too. In science they would call the motive-assumptions posts like the parent make an inference - and they are often the reason poor results are reached, because the observation (thread was deleted) is given a cause (Apple wants to hide it) without considering other obvious data.