Why do you post so much about Apple? Makes it look like it is a cult.
Not a cult. It makes it look like he likes Apple!
You’ve only been here 2 months. How do you know anyone’s posting history?
Unless you’re a retread. Are you?
It’s his specialty, he handles it well, and we appreciate it.
It’s ok for people to have a hobby. At least he’s not into... Sports!
It is and you wouldn’t understand...
Klhatoo Niktoh Baraata...
The Wall Street Journal had this story Friday, and I thought about posting it for Swordmaker and his ping list. Since I knew they’d like the schadenfreude of seeing meretricious legal action against a good company (not that I am a fan of Tim Cook’s personal life) being so easily confounded. But I only saw it on the dead tree version, don’t subscribe to the web site.I can’t afford a Masserati, but I can afford a 5K iMac. So forgive me, please, if I enjoy and appreciate good things - like an Apple computer, and FreeRepublic.com.
Because he’s the “Apple guy” who brings Apple news for those of us who have subscribed to his list.
Does that make sense?
Sword runs the apple ping list which includes hundreds of folks interested in being pinged to apple news.
There are many different ping lists on FR, covering a wide variety of interests from quantum mechanics to cats. This is just another one of many. If you don't care about reading about apple products, click other links instead.
Well, Bettyprob, it could be because I maintain the Freerepublic PING list for over 600 Freepers members who are interested in news articles about Apple. They have ASKED me to post articles about Apple. Do you think that might be a good reason?
By your logic, you would be a member of the Free Republic Cult, because almost all the conversation here centers around grass roots conservatism.
Not a cult. I’m on Swordmaker’s ping list, because I happen to own Apple products and am interested in articles about such. I also own many other manufacturer’s products, which in my opinion are not as good as those made by Apple. And my job was supporting those other products, as an IT systems engineer. Early on, I had several MP3 music players. Best one was an Archos Jukebox, had it around 2001. The OS sucked so I installed a 3rd-party Rockbox interface. But the Jukebox was clunky and the interface was so-so, like other MP3 players of the day. Then the Apple iPod came along and I bought one. It’s streamlined design and elegant thumbwheel design simply blew other players away. It’s not a cult when someone builds a better mousetrap, it’s progress. I still have the Jukebox, but it fell into disuse. No one runs a ping list about it.