Many of you will recall the absurdly
biased column by Dave Kearns for Network World that I
spoke about here on September
24th. Mr. Kearns attacked a certain Apple switcher
commercial featuring Janie Porche and her digital camera
adventures, obviously not believing the truth of what was
protrayed. Well, guess what? I just heard from Janie's
father...
To refresh your memory, here is the offending paragraph
from Mr. Kearns' column:
"There's Janie Porche, the young woman who saved
Christmas. It seems her poor dad needed to spend hours
downloading drivers for his new digital camera (evidently
her dad is still connected to the 'Net at 300 baud).
Porche just "put a cord" between the camera and her
Powerbook, and it automatically downloaded all the
pictures. Imagine that - I wonder which brand of camera
THAT was!"
Janie's dad contacted me because he wanted to set the
record straight. And here is what I learned, point by point,
from a man with almost 25 years experience in the
computer world who uses PCs "extensively" in his
work:
The camera was a Kodak DX 3600 with a USB interface for
transmitting image files. Unfortunately however, the
Porche's home PC didn't have the required USB port. (And for
the record, these folks have a Roadrunner cable modem
connection.)
"Tasks - purchase USB port - install driver -
driver not compatible with Kodak camera software - go to
Kodak site for new driver - get Windows 98 to recognize
new hardware and install new drivers. All of this did
take several hours, not only in the doing of the work,
but in determining what was wrong and what I needed to do
to correct it!"
Frustrated by the above, Janie did just what the
commercial says she did: connected the camera to her
Powerbook, which promptly recognized the attached camera and
began downloading the images. Every word in the commercial
is true, whether longtime PC user Kearns believes it or
not.
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