Posted on 02/03/2007 6:52:37 PM PST by ShorelineMike
"The commercials' characters are personifications of the computers... not owners."
Oh bull! Who on earth is going to believe that interpretation? You surprise me at times with your partisanship.
The Mac mini and Apple TV would be good products for Wal-Mart and Target, along with the iPods they're already selling.
Excellent point!
Even better, by switching to Macs, they can quit worrying about viruses and spyware.
And once they learn the basics, they're more willing to try things like digital photography and music than they were on Windows.
Now all you need is a defense against the next audio CD installed rootkit. Its a shame the DMCA (voted for by my Rep, Dave Camp) makes it illegal for you to remove it from your system once installed.
Of course, the question in the article about what kind of party Apple will throw when it comes out with yet another OS that everyone but a superior Mac type will ignore is kind of funny - since it will be kind of difficult for Steve Jobs, the guy who is busy hiring criminal defense lawyers, to attend a launch party from prison.
They paid Xerox. "Stole" would not seem to be accurate.
Then neither would saying the same thing about Microsoft vis a vis Apple.
Bill Gates just did an interview for Newsweek. I found this quote to be interesting...
"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16934083/site/newsweek/
they'll claim their software is better (BUT NO ONE IS BUYING IT), they'll claim their hardware is superior (BUT NO ONE IS BUYING IT)and they'll continue to run those asinine commercials with that little bitch being a smug apple owner...
and Microsoft will reply with continued WORLDWIDE LEADING SALES in software and pc's etc, etc...
i have had pc's and windows all my life and wouldnt use a mac if ya paid me.....
So if all that's true then, why are you so insecure that you had to show up on this Mac thread to debate it?
You bubble poppers kill me. You're so happy with Microsoft, but you're absolutely threatened by Apple, who you have declared to be irrelevant and insignificant.
Fact is, if it weren't for Apple's innovation and creativity there would not be any relevant or significant changes in the Windows OS. Is that what's bothering you…being on the trailing, imitating edge?
The reason that there isn't more press about Mac vulnerabilities is that the virus writers don't bother with hacking Macs - there isn't enough of an installed base for it to be worth their while. But since virtually everyone uses some flavor of Windows, that's the prime target. So Microsoft products get hit again and again, and their OS's get the reputation of being insecure, while Mac OS's fly serenely under the radar and are treated like the prize pig at the State Fair. Gates' point, I think, is that Microsoft is getting tough and tested from all these attacks, while Apple isn't. Gates' problem is that he is unfortunately inarticulate for a Harvard man.
Yeah, Bill's a real kidder.
I hope I can follow you. It's tough scraping a couple of thousand dollars together while I'm still in college.
Who on earth? How about any body with a clue?
Notice the captions.
According to your interpretation, Avenir, in the commercial called "Surgery," the OWNER of the PC is having surgery to install a new processor, new graphics card, and more memory??? Or in the one called "Tech Support" it is the PC user that is having a WebCam taped to his head??? In "Accident" it was the USER that was pulled off the table by someone tripping over his power cable. RIGHT. Sure.
Where you've missed the point is that Apple's drop is not in the bucket. It's in the crystal stemware on the fancy eatin' table.
OS-X is better?...Maybe, But the day you see me buy a mac is the day I buy a Volkswagen and eat with Chopsticks...which is never.
"IBET ping ..."
I was trying to figure out this post then i finally got it...Pretty funny. :)
Costco occasionally does buy Macs. A friend of mine missed my daughter's wedding last April because he was trying to find a Costco in Sacramento that still had a 20" iMac G5 in stock. The 50 that had been offered for sale at the Stockton Costco had been sold in under six hours. He found similar stories when he called around to other Costcos within a 75 mile radius.
He bought iMac at the South Sacramento Costco store and missed the wedding because the manager would only hold it for two hours. He did get to the reception... and brought the boxed iMac in because he didn't want to leave it in plain sight in his truck in the parking lot. ;^)>
By the way, he was switching from a PC. He now has two Macs... he bought a Mac Mini as well.
I have seen a stack of Mac Minis at the Stockton Costco.
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