Is there someone on your list, SM, who is triggering this ~15 minute, mental lag-time response in the mentally defectives?
After a while one gets to know the APPLE-HATER TROLLS on these threads, from the casual poster who may not be an Apple customer and may not understand some aspects of the Apple products.
There are people on Free Republic who simply don’t know and/or understand the Apple products and that’s fine. Usually we’ll spend time letting them know about one thing or another, or correcting some information that perhaps someone else passed on to them, which was incorrect.
One thing I don’t do with the normal and average customer ... is insist that they “have to have” a particular product from Apple. But if someone starts turning into an APPLE-HATER TROLL and insist that no one should buy any Apple product, or say that only idiots buy them, or call Apple users names and/or is snarky about it ... then I’ll push back on them.
This poster you refer to has definitely been identified in the past as one of the APPLE-HATER TROLLS. He does no other thing on these Apple threads except to serve in that capacity!