Posted on 12/11/2014 9:23:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You are the one who lives in a delusional fog, VanDeKoik. . . I post factual data easily refuting your wishful hallucinations about OS X being a dying operating system and you respond with insults screaming that I am the "nut job" because I dare challenge your world view?
"Dude, seek help. One day when that company starts to fade away, we are going to find you on a bridge, hugging a picture of Steve Jobs, whispering for him to catch you in his loving arms as you push off."
As I said, you never come across as sane. Comments such as this one is why.
VanDeKoik, you've managed to hit every single one of the symptoms of MAPS. Negative, check. Judgmental, check. Aggressive, check. False commentary, Check. Phobic reaction to projected Apple user Euphoria, Check. Simply amazing.
Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new ICD-10 addenda:
90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.
Oh? What do you use a word processor for that is missing in Pages? Please tell us. We use the Mac version in my office for everyday business purposes. . . and I have used the iPad version to write two novels with. So, tell me, Smedley, what do you find missing?
I know it doesn't have all of the bells and whistles that Microsoft Word has, but most people don't need them. What is Pages missing that you require? i
Best. Thread. Comment. Ever.
YES! :)
Let's see if this thread is unrelated. . . What is the title of this thread"
Why Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 Sales Soared as Apple's iPad Sales Plunged
Oh, no, VanDeKoik, that's not unrelated. . . it is a COMPARISON title. . . and it means it is going to discuss BOTH products. How about in the article itself? The lede paragraph is about Apple. . . and ELEVEN of the paragraphs are about Apple and only FIVE are about Microsoft's Surface Pro. The final paragraph segues to an entirely NEW APPLE product. . . This, my FRiend is an Apple article, not a Microsoft article.
Nor are we "pulling charts out of" of any rude bodily orifices to reassure ourselves of anything. We are putting YOU in your place with your false narratives and braggadocio claims of a failing company and other idiotic claims by hoisting your lies into the light of cold hard facts, easily found from authoritative sources when looked for—facts you've been told and shown MANY times before—which makes your repeated lies egregious and deliberate.
I must conclude from your repeated use of deliberately false data and extremely confrontational approach that your purpose is not discussion but to incite a prohibited flame war.
Apple just got lucky that its two major products came out post 2008 as the Federal Reserve started showering our economy with helicopter money.
What better bubble stock (APPL) to be emblematic of our bubble economy with its false prosperity via Federal Reserve flooding the US and the world with fake fiat dollars. This is the only way people can afford Apples overpriced inferior products. Only with this bubble can the snobs, gays, Educrats, pathetic fanbois, government employed drones, useless eaters and urbanites indulge their iPad, iFone fantasies.
Tim Cook should be making a yearly pilgrimage to DC to kiss the ring of the Federal Reserves chairman. The only innovation and real world benefits-improvements since the 2008 deflationary collapse come from our fracking revolution. From our domestic energy sector. Not from stupid Apple commodity products as in..... Numerous manufacturers make similar products that are just as good and better than Apples.
Better enjoy your warm and fuzzies while you can because the next severe downturn will see the Chinese Lenovo buying (hostile take over) Apple to fight the final battle with Samsung.
Apple iPhone release date June 29, 2007
Again, distortions. The money the government pumped into the economy has stayed pretty much on Wall Street. Show us how it has reached Main Street. . .
DOH! How is CRApple Main Street?
“Now you know what sane people hear when you Apple loons get wound up.”
Those threatened by Apple’s offerings for whatever reason are the ones who get “wound up”.
By all means, carry on. It’s amusing. :-)
Dude, the only people that blew a gasket on this story are Swordnutter and his merry posse of cultboys.
They saw someone say something about a non-Apple product in compassion to the iPad, that was not derisive and condescending, and they had to launch into their usual circus act of proving how terrible a thing that was by yanking out sales stats and circle patting themselves on the back for their love of the stuff they fork their money to Apple, I assume, make themselves feel special.
The only thing “amusing” is how you people are so off into that fairy land that you seriously do not know how utterly bizarre you come across.
The question is why do Apple users have such a visceral reaction to the idea that people use other platforms and have the nerve to not feel inferior like they love to tell themselves that we must be feeling? Why are you so threatened?
Seems to me you are both two peas in the same pod... One pro-Apple, the other pro-Microsoft.
You are both equally silly.
It’s just two technology companies. It’s not like the GOPe selling out to Obama or the country circling around the toilet bowl politically and culturally. Get a grip, FGS!
The least expensive, lowest powered Surface 3 I can find (new) is $799.
There is a sub $500 Yoga 2, but it runs a Pentium 2.166 Processor...bwahahahaha! One with an i3 processor is about $600. It has a stellar 1366 x 768 display.
What it all really boils down to is what do you want to do with it. If you are looking for a laptop replacement, a Surface is a better choice for content creation than an iPad. I tell customers who are considering a tablet to write down everything they expect to do with it and what they currently do with their laptop.
Funny thing is, for many people, all they do is content consumption. They surf the web, read email, download music, manage their finances, and organize and sometimes edit photos. The rare occasion they use a word processor or spreadsheet they are at work, using a desktop computer. They should have a tablet.
For me, my laptop is used for editing my web site and higher end photo and graphics creation and editing. My iPad does everything else. I take it everywhere. It is my still camera, my video camera, my library, my reference tool, my communications center, my news source and my anti-boredom device. In a pinch I can use it to edit documents and spreadsheets.
All three form factors - desktops, laptops and tablets - have their place. I don’t think that making devices that blur the lines between any two is particularly wise or effective. Desktop replacement laptops are generally underpowered for a desktop and too big to be conveniently carried. Laptops that act like tablets are generally too large to be as portable as regular tablets. Too many compromises when you do that.
No. 1 problem with Pages is that it will remove half the formatting and embedded codes of a Word document.
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