I agree I don’t care if the candidate is half purple half pink, gay, straight or bi-sexual, male or female, as long as the person does a good job I’ll vote for them for a second term. I’ve lost any confidence I had in Obama running this country with any degree of competence. He enjoys the title but is not capable of handling the massive responsibilities.

*That* is exactly. The problem with politics in this country. You can no longer be a successful politician and pick your sides on issues based in what makes the most sense. Instead, you have to play to your Party’s base, the extremists, who are actually a considerably small minority, but wield all the power. So what we mend up with are people making decisions so far to one side or the other to keep their bases happy, rather than DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY. Ridiculous.

Most people, Steve’s widow, myself, the *majority* of folks in this once great country, don’t call themselves ‘liberals’ or ‘conservatives’, we call ourselves Americans. This decisive crap is completely counterproductive. And we’ll fall further and further until smart leaders emerge who acknowledge that.

Ahh! I see. Well… what asplendid experience it is to engage in stimulating intellectual discussion on the Internet when dealing with people like you, Mike.

I had seen earlier that you had complained about MDN deleting your comments on this thread and weighed in with a suggestion to MDN that he would come off better if he took your “proving his wrong” on the chin and leave your comments.

In response, MDN deleted my suggestion and allowed you to post a jewel like that. I couldn’t understand that until I scanned around and saw your clever-clever-clever post. What wisdom, MDN has, for he allowed us to see you post your cogent reasoning here, MikeK.

Whether Tim Cook gets a buzzie at the site of female genitals has nothing to do with anything with regard to Apple’s recent fortunes.

I do note that often the most rabidly anti-gay individuals out there are as outspoken as they are because of a sense of self-loathing because they get aroused by the sight of genitals of the same gender. Even if this were true of you, I wouldn’t judge the merits of your reasoning based on your sexual orientation.

We were all wasting our time here engaging an idiotic Internet troll with you, MikeK. That alone was the reason why there was deafening silence here in response to your post. Please don’t confuse the lack of responses to your inane post as some sort of group acquiescence to your inescapable logic.

We all merely went “Oh… MikeK is just a stupid asshole.”

Oh… and in case you are still deluded with visions that silence was a sign we had all silently agreed with you; that somehow you are indeed A) aroused by the genitalia of the opposite sex (as if anyone gives a shit), and B) you are critical of those who aren’t just like you, and those two factors meant: C) we all thought that your opinion must be the correct one…

(*sound of slurping on another swallow of my evening espresso*)

…well, no one here was thinking that.

Superman takes place in Chicago.

Conspiracy I say. Who fkd up this easy task?

And back to the point here.. Go back and read MDN posts from the past year that mention Tim Cook, very rarely do they have anything but praise for the guy.

Personally I feel sorry for Tim. Nobody can fill SJ’s shoes… and since it’s Apple, everyone will nitpick/compare his every word to “what would Steve have done”

He will never be Steve Jobs, He will always be the guy that followed Steve.
all he can do, is the best he can do.

the Maps issue? meh, doesn’t bother me. its software… it will be fixed.
now if Tim came out and said “F off, go buy some other maps app, ours is perfect” then I would have a problem… but he didn’t. He went WAY beyond what was needed.
Apple even has all the Maps apps on the front page of the app store.. making it easier for anyone to move away from Apple’s maps…

IMO Tim Cook’s doing a good job. (let me scroll up here…)
(Begin sarcasm. Just in case you are too stupid to figure it out on your own)

even if he is a Gay Democrat.

(end sarcasm)

but… in this case he’s spot on. Has nothing to do with anything other than Apple messed up. (IMO it’s a non issue… but some are freaking out over maps)

MDN does praise Tim Cook all the time.

Mike F is just an asshole. period.

it’s not needed. just bring up the multitasking bar and close any apps that are having issues.

issue two, F’d up way we have to log in. (it’s a pain in the ass, so 99% of us do not…)

3rd, MDN decided to run a poll….. to see how many of us used the app. Problem they did not think of…. those that use the app….. CAN’T SEE POLLS.

and yeah, the notifications drop from time to time. today. none.. will prob work tomorrow/next week.

If MDN kills the notifications… half of us would probably come here like once a week.

That about sums it up.

For all we know they may have anticipated the publicity and calculated it would be an overall gain to go with it when they did. I mean how many people are going to get a different phone just because of the maps app? If it was Garmin or someone like that it would be mission critical.

For the vast majority of phone buyers it’s just a minor thing, and so all that they would think when they saw the negative maps publicity is oh, well that doesn’t matter so much, I think I’ll try it out in the shop and see what the camera is like, or how good it sounds.

So Apple’s flaky shareholders, those who are always buying and selling and complaining, get another couple of ulcers and Apple gets a huge load of publicity they never would have got if all the writers could say is that the iPhone is wonderful.

http://macdailynews.com/2012/05/26/laurene-powell-jobs-aligns-against-teachers-unions-backs-education-reform-charter-schools-vouchers/

Apple should try hiring some.

Well, he corrected his error. Tim Cook will correct Maps. Not everything can be perfect when it’s released, but a good company will work hard to fix the problems quickly. Apple seems to be doing that and taking it very seriously.

Get real. Pick 100 sites, someone bitches that #101 was left off the list. Pick 10,000, and 10,001 gets complained about.

Mapping apps, no matter who does them, are difficult and bound to have inaccuracies. Rand McNally never produced the perfect paper atlas either.

F10T12′s response is spot on, just watch MSNBC for 5 minutes for all the proof you need.

Hey, they got the cross on the right place on Mount Royal here in Montreal. I guess they QC’s Canada first hehehehehehe.

Apple’s QC on this project was horrible unless Apple’s objective was to see how large of a PR nightmare they could needlessly inflict upon themselves.

Rome wasn’t built in a day and we’re not even sure if it’s in Apple’s Maps app.