I got an iPhone 5 in October, 2012, and now have an iPhone 6. I consider
them to be the most life changing pieces of electronics I have ever bought.
I wanted to try this Mac Mini, and am willing to give a Mac another
attempt in the future.
Arnold Schmidt
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From: "christopher hallsworth" <challswor...@icloud.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: My Time Ran Out, I Took It Back
I would have gone for an iPod. It’s an iPhone, without the phone. So you can
spend as little or as much time with it as necessary, without being tied to
any sort of contract. This was my first ever iOS device, the iPod Touch 4th
Generation, and about six months later I migrated to the iPhone 4. To date,
I have an iPod Touch 6th Generation, iPhone 5s and iPad Mini 2. I have other
Apple products, but these will be kept off the list for now. I would highly
recommend anyone to start out with an iPod before trying an iPhone. Just my
£0.02 worth and it worked like a charm for me.
On 6 Jul 2016, at 16:00, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote:
Apple is the one who imposed the deadline. I called Apple Accessibility,
and the Apple main number, trying to get it extended, no luck.
I'll bet we all know blind people who get an iPhone, and just don't seem
to get it. They end up getting Searie to do everything for them, because
they just never seem to have caught on to using the touch screen. By
then, they have their iPhone, like it or not, and would have to pay a big
cancellation fee to return it. I just didn't want to have all this money
invested in something that I very well may, but may not have caught onto
eventually. By no means did I expect to be fluent at it by yesterday,
but I think I should have been getting it, a little more than I was by the
deadline. I am not opposed to trying it again in the future. It will have
to be some kind of cheaper alternative, though, until I feel confident
that I am going to get it. I wish Apple had given me more time.
Arnold Schmidt
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From: Scott Granados
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: My Time Ran Out, I Took It Back
Arnold, you never stood a chance. You can’t learn an operating system in
2 weeks, thinking you could was unreasonable. I wouldn’t even undertake
such a thing with a limited time frame like that ant ai have 35 years of
computer experience. Also, you went in to it with the wrong mindset. I
remember the first posts you had set up for failure on day 1. It’s like
learning a language, you can’t learn it word by word or just in dribs and
drabs, the only real way to learn is full emersion. If I were learning
French I’d head to France and plop down in the middle of the country
where i didn’t have a choice. Same with computing. When you decide to
learn a new operating system you have to cut your self off from the old.
You have to build up all new muscle memory for keyboard commands. I’d
say 10 to 1 you kept issuing windows type keyboard commands on the Mac
and introducing problems not for anything you are doing wrong just
because you’re new and have built up years of muscle memory for commands
in Windows.
You also didn’t value learning the Mac. You mentioned several times even
in your first post that you wouldn’t gain anything. So in the end I’m
not sure why you bothered. That’s like walking in to the job interview,
telling your self you’re not going to get the job anyway and then living
up to your expectations.:) If you ever try this again with any platform
don’t limit yourself to an unreasonable amount of time. Maybe try an
operating system like a Linux variant or something with is totally free
out of the box, won’t cause any financial pressure and you can dedicate
to it with out other distractions like worrying about the costs. No
matter what, good job or giving it a crack. It’s good to push the
boundaries and I’m glad you gave it a shot.
P.S. Stay away from Costco. They totally screwed that migration from
Amex. I canceled my membership because of the sloppy rollout.
On Jul 6, 2016, at 4:50 AM, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com>
wrote:
I wand to thank everyone for the help I have received over the past two
weeks, concerning my Mac Mini. However, I ended up taking it back after
all yesterday, which was my last day to return it.
To attempt to make a long message not quite so long, I guess I just
wasn't getting it as much as I think I should have been. Every time I
would turn it on, it seemed that I still was having to look up how to do
things that I thought I had already learned, and it definitely was
getting more frustrating than fun, being that I could very easily do
those things in Windows, or on my iPhone. And in the end, what was
going to be the real benefit to me? ITunes allegedly easier to use, and
being able to install the OS myself.
Being that yesterday was going to be my last day, I started out
intending to put in a lot of extra time with it, before the time for my
paratransit trip to return it arrived, which I still thought I was going
to cancel. So, I decided to log into my bank web site, which I had not
attempted yet. I successfully passed the first step in the two-step
verification, but then, no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to
read the security question it wanted answered. No problem in Windows,
or my iPhone, no go on this Mac mini. I could tell the location for
the answer field, I could find what should have been the question field,
it just wouldn't read anything. I typed in the answer to one of my
security questions, which, of course, was the wrong answer for the
question it was asking. I am sure the inability to get it to read the
security question was mine, not the Mac Mini's . So, I closed Safari,
then decided to turn on keyboard help, just to try differing
combinations of keys I had never tried before to see what it would say.
I was trying the function keys, and hit a key at the very right end of
them, and it just shut off. Nothing I did would get VoiceOver talking
again. I tried the three-finger triple tap on the track pad,then the
three-finger double tap which is what it is on my iPhone, turned the
track pad commander off and on, turned the whole computer off and back
on, nothing. And this was my last day.
I wish I had had 30 days. If I had had, I still don't think it would
have gone back. But I didn't want to be one of those people who never
quite got it, but it was too late to take it back, and I had over 900
dollars invested in the thing. Even though it would have put me lower
in my checking account than I wanted to be, I should have kept the
Windows 10 Lenovo I bought from Costco, and the Mac Mini, too,
knowing one of them was going back. I bought the Lenovo first, after
having talked myself out of buying a Mac, again. Sometime before
Microsoft stops supporting Vista next spring, there will be another good
deal come through Costco.
I always had wanted to try a Mac, I am glad I did. But it ended up
being so much tedium and frustration to me, as compared to what I
already know, with not all that much seeming benefit in the end. I fully
expected not to know what I was doing for a while, but I thought it
would have begun to get easier by yesterday, which, I guess, it wasn't,
even with the two books I have.
Arnold Schmidt
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