Leftists control speech.
Leftist control consists in killing opponents.
Therefore the title: "7 anti-Apple cliches that need to die."
Any questions?
Posted on 05/31/2010 8:14:20 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
I went into an Apple store the week the iPad was released. The table was surrounded 3 deep to get a look at it. As it finally cleared up a bit and I got to take a look, some guy walks up next to me, picked it up like he was holding the baby jesus, and with a look on his face bordering on orgasm, he looked over at me and whispered, "oh my god, I can't believe I'm finally touching one."
That one is news to us here who have always used Macs and have also been married for 24 years. No viagara needed! :)
That’s something I thought MS screwed up with. They allowed computer companies to sell machines labeled “Vista Capable” but shipped with 512 of memory.
Did they expect that to really work?
I have a laptop with Vista Ultimate and it works flawlessly. It’s equipped to run the OS and yet to have a problem. Never had a compatibility issue, crash or freeze up. Networks better than anything I’ve tried.
If I read what Mac users (and linux users) say about it (you know, people who don’t own or use it), you’d think Vista couldn’t run a keyboard.
Maybe I’m the exception. I did research before purchase. The hardware was right.
That’s a big reason why Apple’s stuff works. It’s simply matched to run the OS and still has the power to do more.
I think that was MS’s big blunder for a lot of things.
It's remarkable that this person actually links to Wikipedia's definition of Godwin's Law when it's obvious he has never read it. Sort of like those e-mail hoaxes that people forward including a link to Snopes (saying "Snopes has confirmed this!") which actually debunks it.
Free market baby should be a conservatives motto in this matter.
motto, that reminds me I need some apple sauce.
I’m still on Vista. I like it much better now that all the service packs are out.
This smug Apple Kool-Aid drinking fanboy is straight out of 1984 and has a one-button mouse for a brain, although he’s right about one thing: Apple isn’t the new Microsoft.
Actually, I couldn’t care less what machine people decide to buy and use. I just wanted to see if I could get all his cliches into one sentence. :-)
That’s funny. I was in Best Buy a few times shortly after iPad was released and noticed some things at the Apple table. (3 times I had to wait over 20 minutes there)
1 Teenagers primarily were looking (about 90% were age 16-18)
2 Apple table was never more than half populated on the computer and laptop side. Most of the time it was the same kids the whole time
3 In my three visits where I had to be right across from the table the whole time, not one person touched an iPad and very few even looked. Most walked past, if they noticed anything they saw the back of a big monitor (it was cool).
4 The (non-Apple) laptop and notebook aisles where (80+%) of machines were occupied by people of all ages
5 Nobody bought an Apple while I was in the store
6 Didn’t count but did notice several non-Apple systems were purchased during each of my visits
Consider my experience anecdotal? Yes.
But there was a major lack of interest displayed in the store.
Compare that to what the fanboys feed us on the internet.... The store should have had a line all the way back to the grocery store down the street just for people to possibly see an iPad or Apple product.
How many iPad purchases do you think were made by new Apple customers?
I’d bet 90% or more were bought by previous Apple owners and 2\3 of those buy anything with the Apple logo on it. Maybe not all obnoxious fanboys but loyal customers and “collectors”.
Aw, cut him some slack. He’s probably never touched a woman’s boob before.
> That one is news to us here who have always used Macs and have also been married for 24 years. No viagara needed! :)
Oh, I'm with you there -- I've used Macs since before there were Macs (i.e. the Lisa)... also machines running MS-DOS, all versions of Windows, various Unixes, various Linuxes, and some others. Not in the least gay.
I was only mentioning that it's a common anti-Apple flame meme.
BTW, I am still an Apple fan, waiting for the first iPad price drop to buy one..
Leftists control speech.
Leftist control consists in killing opponents.
Therefore the title: "7 anti-Apple cliches that need to die."
Any questions?
Good trollbait of an article. LOL!
Mac as a "marital aid"? Wow. Creepy.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
And you'd be totally wrong... Apple had nothing to do with any of that. Your claim that Apple shut down the Atari ST in 1986 is BS. The Atari 520 ST and the Commodore Amiga 1000 through 4000 were around far after 1986. The Atari ST line was commercially available into the early 1990s. Atari shut down the ST development in 1993 to concentrate on their new Jaguar games console. I was there. . . and was even involved in the bankruptcy sale of Commodore in 1994 and a friend of mine was the principle of one of the three companies that was certified to be a bidder on the assets of Commodore at the auction in 1995.
And the answer provided on Yahoo! Answers is totally bogus and wrong...
"Because Apple has never allowed their products to be built and cloned by anyone else. It's called open sourced. They've kept everything secret, expensive and to themselves. Conversely, IBM let out all the secrets for their PC back in the 80s. Everyone made clones and copied what IBM had done. That is why the PC market is 10 times larger than Apple's market. Apple is the only company providing Apple products so they control the price. Naturally, they keep it expensive. And for no good reason."
...because Apple products are not "ludicrously overpriced."
IF one compares similarly configured Windows PC computers to the Apple computers, one finds that the Apple products are competitively priced, and often LESS EXPENSIVE than the Windows computers. This has been shown many times. Apple does not compete in the bargain basement... But when one configures a Windows PC to match the components and specs of an Apple computer, the prices are often within 5-10% of each other... higher or lower... competitive.
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