So I click on “Applications” in the list. And get a listing of all the downloaded Applications. In the bottom right corner, a message tells me that I can go and download the 5 updates.

I click on that and I get the following message :

I live in France, so, even if my whole machine is in english (for reasons I’ve already explained, I think), the iTunes Store I’m logged to is France’s and the specific messages are in french too. But here is the translation :

Application updates

No updates are available right now for ••• (•••@mac.com). To look for updates for another account, log in with this account.

[ Finished ]

Well, this is obviously another case of “we hired cheap, incompetent people from microsoft and now we make our users suffer as if they were on the Dark Side and we still haven’t taken the necessary steps to make it right”… Sure, as crappy as Mac OS X, the related hardware and applications have become, they still are far superior in terms of ease of use, elegance, stability and robustness to their windows counterparts. And I wouldn’t cross the line and leave what is still the best system available. But I certainly miss the days when uptime could be counted in weeks, even months and we could laugh at windows users problems, since we now know what it is to be forced to do regular backups, fear fo
Now, please, Apple, do whatever it takes to become the best hardware and software company again. Steve Jobs is known to fire people easily and harshly, for much less than that! Time to practice, Mr. Jobs, time to practice…

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