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... with things that are supposed to be "automagical", no matter who makes it, is that it's wondrous and beautiful and incredibly easy, up until the moment where you want to do something that wasn't in the original use cases. Then you're doomed to spend the next few days or weeks slogging through all manner of tech confusion. Because Macs are so much more dedicated to the automagical than the PC (for both better and worse - it's just a simple statement of fact), I'd expect this to be much worse on a Mac.
So maybe I was unfair to suggest you were telling the owner of the iMac that he stop using his computer. He was supposed to go back to OS 9.1. Ok, fine.
You're telling me Apple supplied a simple method for back-revving the OS back to 9.1?
Because that's exactly the sort of thing I would have expected to be near impossible without wiping the machine.
But if it's easy, then fine, I guess.
As for people complaining that Jobs ripped them off for $200 as early purchasers of iPhones, that was a momentary (and hilarious) blip in the cult. First, we got to laugh at all the iTards who lorded their oh-so-fine techno goodies at us the month before, and second, to witness Jobs having to pay them to shut up.
