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Worst product (for but not made by Apple)
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What does everyone think the worst ever product was/is made for Apple by third parties. I’m thinking broadly here - it could be a multi-platform product if Apple customers use it.
I would vote for Que blue and white 8x4x32x CD-RW’s and External SCSI Orb drives, mostly for the fact that they never seem to work right and they have terrible customer support!
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I would have to vote for Word 6 by Microsoft. Any objections?
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What a question!
Word 6 is a good choice, but so is IE 3.0. There have been so many bad ports too.
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Avantgo. The Palm-synching thing. Great concept. Full of bugs.
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My friend had this Que 4x/4x/8x CDRW and it was not very good. He couldn’t ever get more than 2x on the recorder and he lost lots of discs.
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Windows sucks.
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By far, the IOMEGA zip CD 650 usb.
This burner is so horrible that it will only burn one CD before needing a cool down period.
Seriously sucky.
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I actually had tremendous success with the Iomega ZipCD. Burned many a CD and didn’t lose a one.
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Favorite (but less relevant than it used to be) Quote: Microsoft’s tyranny lies not in its success, but in the way it achieved and maintains that success.
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The original Super Drive.
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On 2001-07-01 20:17, Justin wrote:
The original Super Drive.Uh, do you mean the one for the Apple II?
Or do you mean the Sony floppy drive?
Or do you mean the Imation LS-120 (aka SuperDisk)?
Or do you mean the Pioneer DVD-R?Gotta love reusable product names?
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: DanLyons on 2001-07-02 10:41 ]</font>
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How about the Zip drive, period. Can anyone here say “Click of Death”? I think Iomega tech support still has not heard about this “issue”. That is, if you can get ahold of them.
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Uh, do you mean the one for the Apple II?
Or do you mean the Sony floppy drive?
Or do you mean the Imation LS-120 (aka SuperDisk)?
Or do you mean the Pioneer DVD-R?I was actually thinking about editing the message and being more specific immediately after I posted it. I did mean the Superdisk made by Imation. It can also be used on PC’s however.
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My vote would have to be Word 6. After using Word 5 successfully for several years on MacClassic and Quadra 605, Word 6 nearly ground it to a halt. And the un-Mac like features (i.e. Windows) were absolutely horrible.
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patience - now that’s a virtue I can’t wait for!
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I feel I must append my earlier beef with iomega. After calling their tech support and describing the problem, they immediately put a replacement burner in a box and it is on its way to me as we speak.
That is good customer service.
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"ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - Charles Darwin
What’s the difference between a Mac and a PC? Macs are designed, PCs are assembled.
