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7 anti-Apple cliches that need to die
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| 29 May 2010
| Chris Rawson
Posted on 05/31/2010 8:14:20 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
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Just stirrin' the puddin'... ;-)
To: Swordmaker
Ping, and bring all your friends
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:16:17 PM PDT
by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
(Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:16:28 PM PDT
by
devere
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
I’d add: “Macs are expensive.” (Corrected version: Apple doesn’t sell cheesy low-end crap.)
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:17:37 PM PDT
by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
(Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
All those themes are true plus the one about Apple marketing to an urban, female, gay, hip, artistic, younger demographic.
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:17:46 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
To: devere
GMTA. See post after yours.
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:17:53 PM PDT
by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
(Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
To: Swordmaker
And here we go on Memorial Day, Swordmaker ... :-)
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:17:58 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:18:35 PM PDT
by
streetpreacher
(Arminian by birth, Calvinist by the grace of God)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Articles like this “need to die”
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:20:12 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(FREE ARIZONA!)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Isn’t Apple for middle-schooler’s?? It’s a sissy company run by a guy with a borrowed liver. I mean, I pity the guy. But Geezz..He’s way too skinny. Apple lovers are sad.
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
>Id add: Macs are expensive. (Corrected version: Apple doesnt sell cheesy low-end crap.)
They just base their OS in it. (Unix/C/C++)
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:22:11 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
You left out GANGSTERISM, i.e. the stunt Apple pulled shutting down the Atari 520 ST around 86 when it appeared that Apple would need four years to come up with anything comparable. THAT is the main reason I don’t have anything to do with Apple or its products.
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:25:35 PM PDT
by
devere
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
This caught my eye:
"...but name one thing Apple's done that even comes close to what Microsoft did to Netscape Navigator."
Sentimentality for Netscape is a sore spot for me. Sure, MS steamrollered Netscape in the marketplace. Small wonder: the Netscape browser of that era was pure crap. But whatever Microsoft's sins in its pursuit of the browser market, let's not forget its use of political connections to defend its turf. As I posted here at the time of Netscape's demise on
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1945463/posts, "...dont forget that Netscape the company (whose largest investor at the time was the private venture fund of AmerIndo Investment Advisors, largely funded by Indonesian and Chinese billionaires) was the main plaintiff in the Clinton DOJs assault on Microsoft. So I say good-bye and good riddance to Netscape, and I further hope its White-House-Coffee-Sipping investors with their whispers into Bill Clintons ear lost not just their shirts but their Mao jackets and little red books as well."
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:26:35 PM PDT
by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
(Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Why wouldn’t Apple surpass MS. Apple makes computers and other products that run on their operating system. MS makes operating systems. Oh when you buy an apple computer you have to buy the software that come with it. Something MS got sued for. But that’s OK, it’s an Apple, it’s shiny and cool.
Moths to the light.
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:32:11 PM PDT
by
PJammers
(I can't help it... It's my idiom!)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast; dennisw
The list reads like a remedial tutorial for our resident FR Apple-haters. I was gonna ping DennisW to this thread, but I see he's already here...
The list should have been 8 items -- the one they left out was that Apple users are gay. Thanks to Dennis for filling that one in. :)
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:32:37 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: wendy1946
"the stunt Apple pulled shutting down the Atari 520 ST"
I don't remember that and have googled a bit to no avail. Could you provide a summary? Thanks in advance.
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:33:12 PM PDT
by
RightOnTheLeftCoast
(Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
“1. Fanboy”
Fanboy still means “fanboy”. It’s the endless forum posts by Apple defenders who will say anything (including lie) to defend their purchase.
If you’re a true fanboy, you’re an idiot.
If you tell me I’m going to get a virus because I use a MS OS, you’re an idiot. Still waiting on my first virus\spyware\malware and I’ve been a computer user since 1985..... both Apple and MS software\OS. Oh, and Linux & Ubuntu. Wanna guess which OS gave me the most problem? (hint - it wasn’t from MS)
“6. “Apple is the new Microsoft””
Author is a dolt. MS used to be accused of having a restrictive license, now Apple has the worst.
Nice try to dodge the issue.
Let’s build a computer to fit my needs, with the components I want, at the prices I’m willing to pay, then decide which OS to put on it.
“7. Smug Mac users”
The fanboys who think they’re better than the rest of society because they bought a box that lights up are certainly smug, arrogant pricks. These people are the ones who bought Apple thinking they were buying a personality and\or lifestyle only to be disappointed after they learned nobody liked them. If anything, people liked them even less.
How about #8?
8. Apple is run by libtards and eco-nazis (Gore still there?)
I see this a lot and never did care about their politics. Don’t care about MS’s politics either.
Guess what? The hardware is made in communist\3rd world countries, sometimes by children.
Knowing that, why would you support the communist state and child labor with your computer\phone purchase?
Suddenly it’s all a non-issue.
....
People don’t hate Apple, they hate obnoxious fanboys.
Author needs to get over it and quit being a crybaby fanboy.
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:40:57 PM PDT
by
Gun142
(Where Will You Be When You Get Where You're Going? -- Jerry Clower)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
why, have you got some better anti-Apple cliches?
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:46:24 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
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posted on
05/31/2010 8:48:22 PM PDT
by
devere
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