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My insult is based on you completely ignoring the evidence. Or maybe you've never seen any of the Mac vs PC ads, in which case I helpfully posted a link to youtube for you in post 26. The VERY FIRST ad in that compendium is Apple making fun of Microsoft, and trying to claim, and I quote, "[Macs] are better at a lot of stuff, like pictures, music, movies.." You argue Apple isn't going against anyone, yet their entire mac v pc ad lineup is Apple denigrating Windows, suggesting current PC users switch to a Mac because it's better. Find a new argument, quit repeating yourself. Maybe read and actually respond to our arguments instead of repeating the same talking points. Intelligent debate. I know it's something rare for any Apple (or anti-Apple!) fanboi. Just like the Glock idiots, or the Catholic bashers.

AGAIN YOU START WITH INSULTS.

I have not ignored any evidence. It is you anti-Apple hecklers who are ignoring the evidence right in front of your faces. I told you exactly what Apple was doing but you choose to ignore it. I am not going to respond to your screed but I am going to say this one more time. Apple is NOT marketing against Microsoft or any particular of the one or even a group of Windows computer manufacturers. Apple was marketing about USER EXPERIENCE. . . and it was against the whole USER EXPERIENCE of the combined PC ecosystem. . . the whole non-working together widget. Apple was offering a system that worked. They were offering the users an alternative to the pain of the PC computer, the whole thing, that people were VERY FAMILIAR WITH, not an OS, not a machine, not the software, the whole bleeping thing. . . with all the cruft that went along with it.

The rest of your sophomoric screed is merely an attempt to make me look ignorant of things I have posted on FR about for over 10 years. You cannot do that, so give it a rest. YOU are the Apple-hater and you are not going to re-define that. TROLL!

You are helping make the argument of the article quite nicely. Thank you.

AGAIN YOU REPEAT YOURSELF.

Your entire argument makes my argument for me.

I am going to say this one more time. Apple is NOT marketing against Microsoft

Apple was marketing about USER EXPERIENCE. . . and it was against the whole USER EXPERIENCE of the combined PC ecosystem.

They were offering the users an alternative to the pain of the PC computer..

Yes, they are grouping their marketing against Windows and hardware that operates Windows, which is their competition. For each person that buys whichever PC they pick, that's one less Mac that Apple just sold. They are in the exact same market.

I told you exactly what Apple was doing but you choose to ignore it.

And I told you, what you think Apple is doing is not what they're doing. I posted you ads, quoted from them, and you still keep just saying "I'm right and you're wrong".

The rest of your sophomoric screed is merely an attempt to make me look ignorant of things I have posted on FR about for over 10 years.

My sophomoric screed is rebutting pretty much all of what you said, and your rebuttal is simply to repeat yourself. You're the one making sophomoric arguments here. Just because you have ten years history of only posting articles about Macs, only posting comments on articles about Macs, doesn't mean any argument you make is automatically correct. Hence myself and bolobaby both posting comments that negate what you or your article says, because they're wrong. It's not anti-Apple, it's anti-wrong information. When people post stupid stuff about Microsoft, I'm just fine shooting their arguments down as well, where they're incorrect.

You are helping make the argument of the article quite nicely.

Oh, and how is that? I don't think Apple's going to die off anytime soon. They've got a good business model, they've got a decent chunk of market share, they do well against their competitors, and they have a shitton of cash in the bank. Even if they just stopped selling everything, no revenue, they have enough reserves to probably keep going for decades. I'm a practical person and can in no way justify paying about twice the price for the same machine. But there's plenty of people willing and able to pay that premium, and Apple isn't going to be hurting for customers unless they really mess something up. I don't like the iWatch, it's as dumb as Samsung's smartwatch, but there's plenty of people who want to wear one. I don't like the closed OS of the iPhone, I like being able to take my battery out or install a custom ROM. But there's plenty of people who don't care about that, and like their nuspi iPhones. Just because I personally don't like some of the features of their machines doesn't mean I think the company is going to run into a brick wall.