I watched this back and forth with my mouth open in gasped astonishment, that, what otherwise, based on your use of language and syntax, should pass for an educated person, could spout off such utter and complete nonsense about Apple products, trends, marketing and users.
I can only surmise that for reasons unknown and obviously deeply personal, you are outright biased and hostile to Mac, Apple, its markets, products, services and users.
Not one thing. Not one comment. Not one complete sentence has been remotely accurate. I would ask what color the sky is on your world, if I was not somewhat afraid I would get a serious answer which was not blue.
So, being one who sincerely seeks to afford you the benefit of the doubt, and let me be candid, based on your lengthy exchanges, are totally undeserving of this doubt, I would strongly suggest you actually take some time and educate yourself on Apple.
I mean it. Unless, as proffered above, you harbor some deep seeded pervasive and hostile anti-apple psychosis beyond remediation.
Go to an Apple store. Talk with the CUSTOMERS. See who they are. Just strike up a friendly conversation. I know what you will find, because my best friend is a Mac Genius and tells me every day about the 97 year old grandma who has struggled to learn the PC for years her grandkids gave her for some holiday. But, 15 minutes with the iPad and grandma is now on facebook, twitter and even looking up long lost relatives or the children of old friends and emerssed in a culture which was, for these later years of her life, totally alien and undiscoverable.
That is just ONE of HUNDREDS of diverse and exceptional stories, which I am blessed to hear about every day.
There is a reason why Apple is ascending in stock, value, production and market share while ALL other sectors of the entire economy are in recession.... Apple just works.
The iPod, iPhone and iPad are world changing products. But that started with PC Macs who never get viruses, who’s emails are never compromised, and who’s OS is the fastest, most robust, stable and most copied in all of the history of the computer.
And I run Windows on my Mac in emulation every day. I used to have BOTH machines. A PC and Mac, for years going back to my 386sx and my Apple IIe. When Mac went Intel, I sold my PCs and now have 4 Macs.
So, try and be open minded. Cause you have sounded really crazy for more than a little bit of posting today.
Wow... Okay... You are the one that seems to have a problem. That’s okay, you can overcome it if you just let thing go a bit...
Actually, you really do sound like a TRUE Apple lover with your rant. Do you really even believe what you are saying or is it just an act?
I really don’t care whether you like PC’s or Apple, I was stating a fact about costs. It does seem that I’ve hit a nerve though - seems a common thread among Apple enthusiasts.
Too bad that Apple folks and others can’t carry on a common sense conversation though...
Your statements have no bearing on Apple or on my statements to the obvious, you are simply Apple insane...
Apple is simply a computer manufacturer! Why are you taking it to the religious extreme? They are in the business to make money (yours)... Why does that bother you so much?
“I can only surmise that for reasons unknown and obviously deeply personal, you are outright biased and hostile to Mac, Apple, its markets, products, services and users.”
Yo! Right here.
When I were mucho much younger, people tended to clump into either Elvis people or Beatles people (which we knew before Tarentino was even born), and also into new car people or hot rod people.
People in the hot rod camp often built, or at least heavily modified, their own cars. “If you didn’t build it, it’s not really yours.”
If something went wrong, they didn’t *want* to call a tow truck and take their cars to the mechanic. They *wanted* to fix it themselves.
(”Everybody makes fun of a redneck—till their car breaks down.” Larry the Cable Guy.)
And they didn’t want to go through the new-car dealer and pay top-dollar for their parts. They wanted to go to the junk yard, or the J.C. Whitney catalog, or even use a drill press and lathe to make the bleedin’ thing.
Over on the other side of town, Suzy Silk-Stocking had a pink corvette with a 283 cubic inch engine and an automatic transmission. Her boyfriend, Heir McMoneybags, Junior, had a brand-new 1970 Dodge Super Bee with a 440 cubic inch engine and four on the floor. Neither of them even knew how to check their oil. To the hot rod people, they were objects of ridicule.
Now, we have 90% of computer-using humanity clumped into the PC camp, and 10% or so in the Apple camp, and it reminds me of the Elvis/Beatles and new-car/hot-rod dichotomies.
I haven’t bought a computer since that new 486 machine in the mid 1990s. I just upgrade as my mood (and liquidity) dictate. Of course, a new motherboard and CPU is pretty major, but drives, RAM, cards, etc., I install or remove to suit myself.
I have cases I like. Really like. When I get a new motherboard and CPU, I don’t throw away usable stuff, like the old computer’s TV card, RAM, graphics card, fans, power supply, screws, cables, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I don’t throw stuff away until it doesn’t work any more...or maybe a friend needs it.
Guess what I’m saying here is that Mac users tend to have the same unearned air of superiority that Suzy Silk-Stocking and Heir McMoneybags, Junior, had and, as a hot-rod person, I want to be able to do it myself. I don’t want to pay top dollar for dealer parts. I want to know every screw and cable, and I want to be able to fix it myself.
A Mac doesn’t do what **I** want done as well or as quickly as or in just the way that I want it done, and it does a lot of stuff I don’t want or need done. I don’t want to pay too much for something that doesn’t please me.
And finally, nothing rubs me the wrong way like “idiot-proofing,” and Apple is the throned monarch of that. It permeates their corporate thinking; it is one of their prime directives. For that reason alone, even if Macs actually were superior to PCs, I still wouldn’t buy them.
I would also assert that my biases against and hostility toward Apple are at least as respectable as Mac users’ biases against and hostility toward PCs.
If none of that is clear, try cruising on down to your local hot-rod show some weekend.