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To: HangnJudge

Don’t take it personally, but the iFanatics do exist, and so does the iCrap. The iDevices aren’t any better than many devices that use Android or Windows, but, the iFanatics will always be “convinced” that the Apple stuff is better, no matter what the realities.


30 posted on 01/01/2014 5:40:53 PM PST by adorno (Y)
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To: adorno

NO different from Ford fanatics, Exxon fanatics, Sunbeam fanatics. Tell us something we don’t know.


32 posted on 01/01/2014 5:44:26 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: adorno
The iDevices aren’t any better than many devices that use Android or Windows, but, the iFanatics will always be “convinced” that the Apple stuff is better, no matter what the realities.

As someone who grew up programming assembly language on old TRS-80's, migrated to PC's and Pascal, built server farms and entire data centers that were Microsoft centric and a career that started in 1985, I can tell you factually that my Apple and its peripherals are exponentially better than my 8-Core Intel Desktop and its peripherals.

When I plug something into my Mac I know it's going to work.

Can't say that about my PC.

Now there's a reason why when I plug something into my Mac and it "just works" and on my PC it may not.

Fact is, Apple's hardware footprint is much smaller than that of the PC/Microsoft market. For example, there's HUNDREDS of webcams available for PC's. On the Mac there may be 2-3.

It's alot easier to control Hardware, OS, Peripheral and Driver quality (ie: "it just works") with a much narrower base of hardware to work with, which is what Apple does.

My first PC was a dual-floppy 8086 with 256mb of memory on which I wrote financial accounting software. So I go back to the original IBM PC (and TRS-80's, Commie 64's, Timex Sinclair's and more before that.) I've had a Mac on my desk side by side with my PC for two years. For the majority of things I do, my Mac is hands-down my go-to machine. My PC runs my home automation and amateur radio gear. I never thought I'd prefer a Mac over a PC for my everyday tasks --- but I do.

40 posted on 01/01/2014 5:56:56 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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