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Originally Posted by KMvBC
I agree.  . Its very frustrating because I feel like I'm being cheated! Ug. I'm a Mac girl and I like them because they just work... And this isn't... |
Apple's playground is known as a "walled garden" and "they just work" because only things that work are allowed inside that garden. You're trying to get outside the garden, and the corollary to Apple's walled garden philosophy of making sure everything inside that garden "works" is to make sure everything not approved for use inside that garden does "not work." My brother took in his iPhone for warranty repair and they took out the perfectly functional and cheap standard Phillips crosshead screws and put in expensive special "Pentalobe" screws so he couldn't later replace the battery himself from an "outside the garden" supplier.. Apple aggressively defends its garden walls.
I prefer the openness and variety of choice available outside the garden, and I'm willing to live with the occasional inevitable incompatibilities, but many disagree and prefer staying in the garden to make sure everything just works.