home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Xenon.Stanford.EDU!torrie
- From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
- Subject: Re: DISRUPT 7.1 LINES
- Message-ID: <torrie.721544294@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: torrie@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <mike_steiner-091192170242@192.35.50.131> <HHT3TB15w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 04:58:14 GMT
- Lines: 22
-
- mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
-
- >No MS-DOS user would put up with being told that he has to visit his dealer
- >in person before they'll deign to sell him a computer. No MS-DOS user would
- >wait two weeks for that machine to be delivered. No MS-DOS user would wait
- >four weeks for it to be repaired.
-
- Luckily, Apple doesn't have these problems in the U.S. I can order
- a Powerbook 145 over the phone directly from Apple, and have it
- delivered tomorrow. I sent in my PB100 for the recall retrofit, and
- it came back within 3 days, picked up and delivered to my door.
-
- Sounds like Apple UK needs a good shakeup. Why is it that Apple
- in the U.S.A. doesn't exert more pressure on their foreign subsidiaries
- to provide decent service??
-
- --
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu
- Embrace rationalism, reject superstition. Break away from the past.
- "...there is only one thing worse than having marketing people on a project,
- and that is having no marketing people on a project." - Larry Tesler.
-