You’re probably talking to an old feller who still drives to Best Buy to purchase music CDs and PC software on DVDs.
... And the retiree tooling his Honda Goldwing through the desert happily not paying for streaming charges, well gosh, how much Steppenwolf can one possibly listen to that would blow the basic data service on a typical streaming plan?
Even today some people still plan their next AT-form factor PC clone as being a sheet metal mini tower full of otherwise empty space and expansion cards mounted at a 90 degree angle to their motherboard surrounded by a rats nest of tangled cables and clotted mats of dust bunnies made of cat fur and cigarette tar. That commie MacPro just don’t LOOK right, dagnabbit.
They regard Apple users as Socialist queers and never stop to think what the ‘MS’ in ‘MSNBC’ stands for. Sure isn’t Apple. It’s like they have a bone growing through their brain.
Old user is old. Let em use their Windows 8.2.25.a Service Pack 5 for all I care. Their grandkids are probably still wondering why grampa’s never managed to figure out how to get the video cam working all these years or where that letter icon where he gets his email went or why his audio sounds like it’s coming from the bottom of a well. Maybe they’ll come over and take a whack at fixing it for him next Thanksgiving, if he can find his install DVD and serial number.
Or "Sheldon Cooper."
Either way, it's an exercise in futility.
I have hundreds of CDs, and I paid store price on probably no more than a half dozen of them.
I kind of like the old paradigm-you buy the CD, you own the music for as long as you have the CD. It's not a license to listen to the music on a specific device, it's the music itself. If you sell, give, or bequeath the CD to someone else, that person then owns the music. No "terms and conditions" to accept. Just play it and enjoy.
Ouch. Thanks for the camaraderie and words of encouragement regarding people stuck in the technological dark ages, still focused on using SD cards and floppies. However, I have to admit that I'm an old feller. But I embrace new technology while reminiscing what has become obsolete.
I own and drive modern sports cars and trucks, but also own some vintage cars (1960s era). I own and get daily use from modern computing devices, but also have a huge collection of vintage machines (from the early 1970s to current day). I'm smart enough to realize that technology is constantly moving forward.
I remember people criticizing Apple when they stopped using audio tape to store programs and switched to floppy drives, when they dropped 5-1/4 floppies for enclosed 3-1/2 floppies, when they dropped floppies for CDs then DVDs, etc., and lately when they dropped internal DVDs. Then the competition follows in line behind Apple and does likewise. By the way, I use and have used devices from multiple makers, having been a systems engineer supporting dozens of makers' devices. I happen to have several of those sheet metal towers you speak of, with Windows inside (yuck). I just like Apple stuff compared to other stuff, far more elegant. I still use a first-revision 1977 Apple II, I modified with custom auto-on ROMs and compact-flash cards. It boots in an instant, and has many thousands of Apple II programs and games on a compact-flash card. Now how many people still play with IBM PC DOS 1.1 which I still own but never use (sound of crickets)?
HA. Gotta disagree with you there, kid. I build my computers as long-term computing devices. Last desktop I had was 9 years old when I finally retired it. Built my most recent one from just a shade below the top of the performance curve in a micro-atx case because I wanted it to sit inside my rolltop desk. I could have gone with a Mac, but I'm really more of a Linux guy so I didn't.
Wife and MIL both have Macs, and I'm not denying they are great products, but not all products suit all needs. I'm glad both exist in the market though, even if I'm not wanting a Mac for myself.