Forums owned by brands have historically always been useless. Was Apple’s the same?
Yes, it was mostly third world country based contractors being incredibly unhelpful, very similar to Microsoft.
I honestly thought they were volunteers trying to score as many points as possible for their resume
I think it was some of both. I knows i read replies that looked copy-pasted from a solutions book, and others that had soul to them.
Thankfully i never had to use it’s lot, but when I did i almost always found a solution.
Much better then reddit where you get a lot of install windows/android as your solution.
They were actually pretty good about 20 years ago. Since then, it all went downhill. Particularly with the rise of Reddit, which was much more accessible.
These have been complete garbage for over a decade, so whatever I guess.
They all just told you to reboot, reset the pram (is that still a thing?), or it would be a won’t fix bug that sits there for years.
It sucks there’s no way to contact the mega corps for support or to report bugs, but this was a graveyard.
And nothing of value was lost.
Honestly the only time I had issues on my work Mac was, I shit you not, printer related.
That’s because printers suck
