{"id":337,"date":"2012-04-29T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T22:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2017-09-07T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:46:19","slug":"a-complaint-against-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/2012\/04\/29\/a-complaint-against-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"A Complaint Against Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I still pick up a freelance computer repair job. \u00a0I took a job fixing a MacBook Pro that turned into a multi-day endeavor. \u00a0It turned out the hard drive was failing (in my opinion). \u00a0The bigger problem I found was that a Mac OS X install DVD will not necessarily work on any Mac. \u00a0The OS X DVD came from another Mac user and was even for the same model (13&#8243; MacBook Pro) and stock OS (10.6 Snow Leopard). \u00a0In my opinion the DVD should be able to install Snow Leopard on any Mac capable of running it. \u00a0It&#8217;s impractical to assume that people will hang on to their install media at all times.<\/p>\n<p>I see this as Apple&#8217;s method to make sure people are stuck bringing their computers into the Apple store for repairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I still pick up a freelance computer repair job. \u00a0I took a job fixing a MacBook Pro that turned into a multi-day endeavor. \u00a0It turned out the hard drive was failing (in my opinion). \u00a0The bigger problem I found was that a Mac OS X install DVD will not necessarily work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/2012\/04\/29\/a-complaint-against-apple\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianrthomas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}