charderman

While everones favorite fruit company continues to try and grab more market share, they keep missing the mark in one very important but overlooked area. Hardware is always the key. You may say but they are a hardware company and I would agree but not a very good one in the light of maintanence. No one wants to drive 50 miles or better to their closest “Fruit Stand” just to get something that any computer place should be able to repair. They make it easier to use but not easy to fix or repair. I understand they want to keep everything through them, but what they keep missing is that they should allow smaller places resell parts and fix their machines. People would have a much better cost of ownership overall and therfore would come back to them more often. I am not hating the Mac, I have a couple of them myself I am just saying they are quite a pain to repair when something goes wrong. If you were to buy a “prophet”(made up) brand car or a Ford, and everything about the prophet was better except price and the only place you could get it fixed was 50 miles away or better, but the Ford you can fix anywhere and it’s much cheaper. Which one would you go with. ( Insert your favorite brand car, doesn’t have to be Ford.) I think most people would go with the Ford for the price and the ease of repair and part availability. I know in this internet age it should make things easier as far as this stuff goes, but most non-technical people want someone to hold their hand through the repari and they want someone local that they trust not someone they don’t know 50-100 miles away that has to keep their computer for a month because they are too busy since they are the only place around. I know the Mac has a good market share right now, and I am not picking on them. I would love to see them do much better. I am only saying that after 20 years it should be better than this.   

We all went out as a family and had Chinese food tonight. This is a pretty rare thing these days as it costs a bunch for us all to go out. Anyways, I find it quite surprising how many Chinese restaurants have sushi since it is after all Japanese. I find it even funnier that most people even though having never tried sushi, think it is the most disgusting thing ever. First of all most places in small towns don’t serve REAL sushi and what they end up selling is usually full of cooked ham, shrimp, and crab-meat. SO, after eating there many times and seeing that they had real sushi along with all the other stuff that they were actually getting quite creative with it. A few weeks ago I stopped and talked to the lady who runs the place and to my surprise she actually had a Japanese sushi chef working for her and before he left taught her the craft. I know most buffets have a very limited arrangement of stuff like sushi but they have converted a once dead grill section into a small sushi buffet and it is quite nice. I can’t seem to get enough of it. I challenge anyone out there who thinks sushi is gross without trying it to find a place that specializes in sushi and try it before you say ick. Most of these places will be found in a larger city with a large Asian community, but sometimes you just get lucky.