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Originally Posted by Hitch
Thanks, Doits, eschwartz:
But this guy can't even manage, well, anything. I have been yanking my hair out of my head for the last 4 days, and I won't regale everyone here with the horrors of every other stunt he's pulled. It's been serious grim here at the Casa de Booknook, with his High Drama. (And, lord, do I mean, HIGH DRAMA. Everything is a disaster, a crisis, it's too much for him, etc.) He wrote a long rambling email about how I should keep a table, asking every single client EXACTLY what computer, what OS they are on, and tracking what software works for that computer (for ePUB readers, you see), and I should have known that his OSX 10.6.8 wouldn't run 3.0--although as you guys see, by all rights, from my research, allegedly, it would.
Thanks much, Doits, for the testing, too. That sounds vaguely like what the client experienced. I will never understand why they think I'm somehow responsible for what Adobe does/doesn't do, or when a piece of completely third-party software doesn't do what it "should." I told him to install either Calibre or iBooks, but now he says--I kid thee not--he "[doesn't] have the strength for it."
Hitch |
Thank you for that account. I'm a PC person myself (I remember the days of DOS - even the bliss when they made the command line editable with DOS 5) and getting slowly into Android and the Kindle Fire.
But my brother is <linethrough>a smooth man</linethrough> an Apple Person and considers himself one The Elect. And one of the things which every Apple Person knows is that life would be much simpler for everyone if they had Apples too (his 18-month old son is quite proficient with his sister's iPad). Because Apples Just Work.
HA!
I won't try telling him about this - like any True Believer he will have an answer - but
I shall know. Not just something that doesn't work as advertised, but something from
Adobe that doesn't work properly.
It almost restores my faith in a Fair Universe. Not quite, since I can't make things work on my little collection of Non-Elect hardware / software despite real commitment.
To which I must now return.