{"id":168,"date":"2006-08-12T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2006-08-12T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T22:07:25","slug":"the-rapacity-of-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"The rapacity of Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother&#8217;s Mac mini died on Thursday. The hard disk went. It was about fifteen months old and had seen very light usage indeed. So I took it into the Apple centre i Cambridge, where they sucked their teeth and asked what size it had been. 40GB, I said. Ah, to repair that will be <span class=\"loony\">&pound;211.18 + <span class=\"caps\">VAT <\/span><\/span> You might as well buy a new one.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is a <em>Forty Gigabyte hard disk<\/em> &#8212; something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dabs.com\/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3VMV&amp;CategorySelectedId=11154&amp;NavigationKey=11154%2C41580000%2C45510000%2C41610000%2C11&amp;InMerch=1\">that costs<\/a> around <em>forty pounds<\/em> at Dabs, and which, on a <span class=\"caps\">PC,<\/span> I could put in myself in about ten minutes. But I have no idea if it is even possible to take apart a Mac without special tools. So they can happily charge six times the retail price just to change this thing.<\/p>\n\n<p>At this point, my mother was keen just to buy another one and get it over with. So I said yes, and then discovered that you don&#8217;t with the new, improved Macs, get Appleworks at all. Oh no. It&#8217;s another &pound;60 for a word processor. They told us inthe shop that we could reinstall Appleworks from the old disks. But this turned out not to be actually, how you say, true.<\/p>\n\n<p>How the hell did this company get the reputation of being on the side of its users?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother&#8217;s Mac mini died on Thursday. The hard disk went. It was about fifteen months old and had seen very light usage indeed. So I took it into the Apple centre i Cambridge, where they sucked their teeth and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}