Orinoco; Bad Product, Bad!
SO, I sent a polite email request to an address posted at MacNN.com that was meant to send my support for the MacOS X versions of drivers for the lucent/orinoco wireless ethernet cards. You see, my girlfriend and I are in need of these drivers in our *total* conversion to MacOS X…. so anyway here is the shitty canned reply that was sent back to me;
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Thank you for your comments.
They are being forwarded to Product Management.“Our current position is that we do not intend to support Apple MacOS-X at
this time.
The reasons for this decision are as follows:
1. Apple computers, both mobile and desktops, are equipped with non-standard
built-in Airport slots and antennas since late 1999. Apple’s intention with
this approach is to have customers with an Airport-equipped Mac to choose
Airport Cards as their preferred WLAN client products.
2. We have full confidence that Apple will continue to support Airport under
MacOS-X on Airport G4s, iMacs, iBooks and Powerbooks. This allows Macs to
be fully respected clients on Orinoco WLANs.
In addition to that we will continue our support for the older MacOSes on
the Apple platform. (MacOS 7.5.5, 8.x, 9.x). ”
So, as you can see it was time to unleash some corporate ass kicking — yeah, well, maybe not, but at least I’m trying :-)…
DEAR MR. MARKETING DEPT.,
YOUR CURRENT POSITION SUCKS, HERE IS WHY;
PEOPLE NEED AIRPORT (WIRELESS 802.11) ON OLD(ER) G3 LAPTOPS THAT DO *NOT* SUPPORT APPLE BRANDED INTERNAL AIRPORT CARDS!!! THESE CARDS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A NEW OR VERY RECENT MACHINE FROM APPLE, HENCE PEOPLE’S PURCHASE OF YOUR PRODUCT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I MEAN, ISN’T THAT YOUR PURPOSE AS A PERIPHERAL MAKER?
PLEASE DONT LET YOUR COMPANY COP OUT ON THEIR PRODUCT SUPPORT SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU CANNOT FIND ANY ENGINEERS TO SPEND A FEW DAYS OF THEIR “WINTEL” OBSESSED LIFE TO TRY AND LEARN HOW TO WRITE A LOUSY (LITERALLY) DRIVER FOR MACOS X.
WHATEVER,
NEVER EVER EVER EVER WILL I EVER BUY OR RECOMMEND ANOTHER LUCENT/ORINICO PRODUCT AGAIN.
AND CONSIDER THIS POSTED ON THE NET AND IN FORUMS EVERYWHERE.
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OH YEAH, PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO “PRODUCT (RE)MANAGEMENT”
By the way, just to be (more of) an asshole I mailed it in ALL COPS AND BOLD and included a link to www.alternate.org.
🙂