We Are Not The Center Of The Universe (Or Even The U.S.)
So I went to the new Apple store on Boylston St. in Boston the other day and realized something highly amusing (at least from my standpoint). On macs there is an application called dashboard that when selected puts a bunch of useful widgets on your screen, including a current weather and five day forecast for any city that you set it to. However, little known fact apparently, if you just type in Boston the widget will automatically provide the weather for Boston, Georgia because this Boston comes first alphabetically. Therefore, when you clicked on dashboard for the weather report on any of the tons of the computers on the three floors of the store you were given a rather sunny and brutally hot forecast that was woefully incorrect for the user’s current location.
I am not technically inclined in the slightest, but, if I figured this out, wouldn’t you think at least one of the so called “geniuses” that works at the store would’ve noticed this and corrected it immediately?
For a starting price of $1099, I want a computer that will automatically conform to my specific intended settings, whether I’m able to coherently request them or not.
