I'm an Apple loyalist, and my Time Capsule died around 16 months. I threw it out, thinking it was a power spike, and sadly bought another 2tb model.

Yes, I am upset at Apple waisting my money--I didn't know until now this was a system issue--but I am more concerned that my newest investment is going to fail also.

I love Apple, but it's quality issues are really getting painful.

My died a couple of weeks ago, about 18 months old. Apple Store told me to buy a new one.

I wonder if this is the Xbox 360 for Apple.

More importantly, is my new Time Capsule going to die in 18 months?

Apple needs to pull their quality act together. Innovation without quality will ultimately be their doom.

Obviously a fake.

Another reason is it is missing the search icon to the left of the page dots.

I am a huge fan of iWork, and I hope that iWork 09 is the final update to rid myself of MSOffice.

Microsoft aside, I find the Keynote and Pages incredibly powerful. As long as we continue to get desktop versions--for working offline--I could care less about it being available in the cloud. It's a nice to have in my book.

I think there is a great opportunity to create a serious competitor to MSOffice. Of course it will never be a big company staple, but that matters little. There are tons of mid to small companies who care about document output--in Apple's core enterprise market--that will buy tons of iWork for their Macs.

I suspect, but may be wrong, that this rumor is either false or partially correct.

Jobs' keynotes have shown some new Keynote features not available yet. I doubt this was coming from the cloud.

Also, a killer keynote could be another reason to buy a Mac and soften Apple dependency on MS.

Finally, mobileme has been a disaster. It's now working, but it's far from good. I hope Apple isn't going to bite off more than they can chew.

An iPhone version makes a ton more sense from an investment perspective. (sell more iWork and more iPhones. Get in the enterprise deeper since who knows when MS is going to release MSOffice or the iPhone? Probably never.)

In summary, I don't believe this, but as long as we get a killer desktop version too, a mobile version woul

I just re-set the SMC on my late 2008 MacBook Pro, and it fixed the "no warning" issue when the battery level was low. (e.g. no dialog warning comes up saying battery was low. Instead, it just suddenly went to sleep.)

I hope this fix sticks since the sudden shutdown was a serious pain.

Now I just need a fix for the serious wireless issues and I will be on my way to being a happy customer again...although the 'beta culture' Apple has embraced about 24 months ago is getting old and tires.

I can't explain why, but I love this game. I find it oddly therapeutic.

I'm really looking forward to the update. This looks like a fantastic update.

Awesome. I cannot wait for this.

I loved the original Myst. I'm not a big gamer, but I loved the rich environment, the mystic story line, and the puzzles.

I'll be the first in line to purchase this.

As a CTO of a company which only uses Apple products, I can personal attest to the slide in quality. We noticed the slide about late 2005.

At first, I was like many in the community who said "it's just the exception."

But sadly, there is absolutely no doubt Apple's quality has slipped, and slipped massively.

From fit and finish issues, screen back lighting, heat issues in numerous products across the line, the Leopard client being shipped about 4 months early, Leopard server still not being commercial grade, mobileme, iphone OS 2.0, etc., Apple clearly cares more about hitting internal ship timeframes than quality in their craft.

I think Apple needs to be careful how they move forward now. Allowing poor quality to ship starts as a business decision, and becomes a culture issue--one that can never be fixes. Look at the US car manufactures as a case study.

Microsoft, Dell, et al., must be noticing by now. Sure, Vista is a train wreck, but Microsoft plays the long game, and I bet this is how they will attack moving forward. Yes, MS is not there today--far from it--but, again, they play the long game.

As a pretty sizable Apple customer, who would like to stay one, I hope someone in senior management is taking notice at the fundamental rot that is happening in Apple.

My account exec, takes good care of us and replaces things quickly, but off the record, he's not so sure senior management at Apple really understands how bad the problem is. It's easy to hide things with statistics.

Well, it looks like 80 iPhones per AT&T store. (8 boxes, 10 iPhones in each box)

I'm sure the allocation is larger for bigger, prime stores.

Macroy:

Greatest. Response. Ever.