November 25, 2003

Does Steve own shares in hard drive manufacturers?

Dear Apple,

I own an Epson C60 printer. I need to install the printer driver for it, because I deliberately didn't install the printer drivers when I installed Mac OS X to save space. It seems you've only provided me with two rather large bundles of Epson drivers - one weighing in at 275MB and the other at 361MB. I only found them by digging around the DVD you provided - the DVD itself wanted to install not just printer drivers but also more languages and the whole Mac OS Classic bundle too.

Can you explain why you do this? It can't be because it's easier for the user, because it will be pretty difficult tracking down things to delete when my hard disk gets full (and it will, if 1% of it is allocated to printer drivers alone). Does Steve Jobs own shares in a company that makes external hard disks?

What's wrong with borrowing a little from Windows now that you've proved you're better? Downloading just the driver I need would be a lot easier than waiting for 432 drivers to install.

Oh, and while I'm at it... Epson, get with the programme: MacOS 10.3 is out now, you know.

Posted by savs at November 25, 2003 4:23 PM