Posted on 07/01/2009 2:14:14 PM PDT by Blue Highway
It seems like every time I venture into an Apple thread here on FR, it's similar to venturing over into Democratic Underground territory.
Personal attacks abound especially if you start criticizing Apple products or other Apple users for being naive into thinking Apple is everything their clever marketing department represents it to be.
It seems like the Mac ping list alerts the faithful flock to defend Apple to the death and that is when the claws come out and it starts to get ugly.
Dude, YOU are the one hurling insults and invective against a company for leading the pack in doing what their customers want (actually want in practice, not just what they claim they want but don’t follow up on).
I mean really: you rip Apple a new one for not making a new 5+ year battery easily replaceable, yet admittedly haven’t replaced a easily replaceable battery on your own Compaq. Seriously: if you’re not going to replace it when it’s easy on your own computer, why get mad when a company provides the benefits of non-replacability?
You’re trolling. If you don’t like Apple products, don’t buy them.
Just two weeks ago Karl Rove said he has only used MACs since the 1980s.
Windows is good at what it does, backwards compatibility. 99% of the development work in windows is figuring out how stupid programmers and companies have broken some aspect of the system and making work arounds that make the system behave like it used to. Read Raymond Chen for the horror stories. This is also why Windows is such a godawful mess, despite having 10x the brainpower of any company other than google in aggregate.
Apple is not afraid to completely change its APIs and orphan their third party programs. If you're okay with that, it's a much better system.
I have had so much trouble with Vista that I considered a Mac, but I’d have invest in thousands of $ of new software.
Not worth it.
Windows 7, which is due for release this fall, supposedly has solved a lot of the Vista problems.
See people this is the kind of typical response I get from Apple cult users where if they can't respond to the topic they subvert it to attack the person with baseless attacks.
regulator, I was far to the right of any RINO and I probably was one of the ones harping about the people on FR that were supportive of RINOS like McCain, Giuliani, Huckabee or Romeny...
You don’t need to invest in new software. You can boot native in Windows on Macs, and that has been the case for several years now.
I’m embarrassed for the poster of this thread. What a freaking whiner. I can’t believe someone who claims to be a conservative would post a thread whining about how he is treated on other threads. Talk about a liberal mentality. This is worthy of ZOT.
You start a vanity thread filled with negativity and trashing, and then say you're shocked ... shocked that anyone else would rise to your bait.
Duh. Go play solitaire on your weenie pee-cee, lol.
Just weird. . . .
Twerps always bellyache, wimper, cry and run away when presented with facts! so we arent surprized, are we? Somebody else has a serious afflicton of that Virus, OBOZO HUSSEIN must have looked hilarious running home to his Granny( the white one who took the time and Love to raise him and who he threw under the bus at first chance!) every time another Kid looked crosseyed at him. RUSH said the term used on OAHU is “THE STINK EYE!” that horrible look OBOZO uses on all of Our Good Allies and wouldnt dare use on one of Our MUSLIM ENEMIES! :-)
I’ve got numerous Macs, make my living on them, and I know from personal observation that they’re the best PC to buy, as other Freepers can attest.
Yet when we state that, we have seen more nastiness, insults, hate and derision directed towards us than I’ve ever seen on the Giuliani threads, the Crevo threads, the Mitt Romney threads or the Mormon/Catholic/Protestant threads.
There are Freepers here who are emotionally vested in hating Mac users, and loudly proclaiming their hatred towards us, and for the life of me, I have no idea why.
They’re just a tool, like what car you buy, or what truck you buy...but tell Freep something good about Mac and the haters just come crawling out of the woodwork, telling us how bad we are and how bad Macs are.
I sometimes think we should designate the Mac threads as Mac-Forum Users only, like the devotional threads, so’s Mac haters can’t come on board and put down our computers, us and our OS.
Ed
You don’t get it. I COULD replace my battery though if I were inclined but I refuse to pay $130 for a battery for a laptop that cost me under $450. If I were an owner of a Macbook Pro, I wouldn’t have that option even. THAT’S what bothers me.
Who ever said I was a fan of Carl Rove even?
Ever considered just not buying one, rather than b*tching loudly and longly about it on internet forums?
Vista SP2 solved most of the problems of the original Vista. Heck Vista SP1 solved most of Vista’s problems. Have you upgraded to SP1 at least, or SP2 yet?
Dead on target. I have made the comparison as well. Mac owners belong to a cult and they defend their beliefs with a religious fervor. They sound more like DUers than Conservatives.
Let’s face it, you’re just cheap!
And you’re a Romney supporter. What a joke. Talk about RINO ALERT!!!! Why are you here?
Whats your reading comprehension level, 3rd grade? Second?
I said USERS and TENDENCY.
Q. How many Mac users does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. That’s not funny.
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