You really need to get a life... nobody can be that in love with all of a companies products... The truth is that I DON’T CARE , I truly don’t... I use things I don’t let things rule over me ,, I find your compulsion to defend AAPL against all insults real or imagined to be very amusing and incredibly easy to provoke , I like yanking your chain, maybe the name Neidermeyer fits me a bit too well in this instance... but if you look at my postings I always go after real identifiable issues and keep it clean. You must be the life of the party with all your AAPL talk.
There is a real world out there ,, a world with people and trees , old cars and friendly dogs ... a world that doesn’t just exist in a 1.25” square high def screen and within your head... maybe learn to do something you would never have considered ,, build an ultralight , go to a restaurant that isn’t a national chain , explore an abandoned building in your town... go fishing and leave the phone in the car... your sanity will thank you.
YOU are the one repeatedly posting on a thread in which you claim you have no interest. Now you post an entire reply filled with an ad hominem to me Claiming I am so bereft of interests it is all I can do is post stuff to the Internet to promote Apple.
Neddermeyer, I have a very good life with a great family and a young granddaughter, a business, a beautiful girlfriend, I'm a novelist working on two books, and own rental properties, I've accomplished much in my life, founded charities, and run them, helping more people than you can count, as a musician, I've performed in Carnegie Hall. . . and I have a host of other interests.
YOU are the one who gets on here and ignorantly posts drivel on something you don't use, don't have a clue about how it works, and tries to tell those of us who do use one, how terrible it works. When we correct your misinformation you jump to some other falsehood about it. . . from your store of ignorance. You do this repeatedly in multiple Apple threads. You are a thread troll.
"I like yanking your chain, maybe the name Neidermeyer fits me a bit too well in this instance..." Why? WHO doesn't have a life??? Get another, better hobby than "yanking my chain", Neidermeyer. As you said, there's a real world out there beyond posting idiocy on FreeRepublic. . . because posting lies makes you look like an idiot.
You've been told, repeatedly, why I post on Freerepublic and it has to do with the request of over 700 of your fellow Freepers, not YOU. They want ACCURATE information, not posts on repeated DRIVEL. They appreciate me shooting down the lies. They are tired of you Apple haters posting the same old falsehoods time-after-time, over and over again.
If you don't like Apple threads, move on to something you do like.
I do appreciate the Apple threads he either puts up himself or pings those of others. It is certainly a passion with him and there's nothing wrong with that.
For many, many years, I was solely a Windows PC user. During those days, I would also make potshots at Apple as during most of the 1990s, it appeared they were pretty close to going bankrupt and their computers at the time were way too confusing to me.
It was the iPod that first exposed me to things Apple. I think the iPod was a revolutionary product that completely changed the way that I (and others) listened to music.
From there, it was a relatively easy leap to the iPhone and then to the MacBook Pro - which I still use to this day and which I am typing this reply with.
Interesting story about my MacBook Pro, which I purchased in early 2011. A couple months ago, after four years of flawless performance, the video started crapping out on me. I would have to keep rebooting to get my display back and finally it just didn't even boot up anymore. I thought for sure that the machine was dead and that I needed to buy another laptop.
So I made an appointment at the Apple Store to have them look at it and if they told me the repair would exceed $1,000, I was prepared to buy a replacement.
Upon arriving, they ran some diagnostics and determined that the video card was defective. They then informed me that there was an FOC (free of charge) repair program if I was interested. So they took my computer for a couple days and returned it to me in excellent working order.
Now Apple didn't have to do that. I did not purchase Apple Care or any extended warranty. I would have happily have purchased an entire new unit at some $2,500. But they offered to fix my four-year old laptop for free and make it like new again.
This is why certain people have such a passion for Apple and their products. Superior customer service and excellent value for what you buy. I have several iPods here at home that I only upgraded because they kept getting better. However, all the other iPods work perfectly fine, including the original one I bought in 2003. I also have an iPad which I use to browse the Internet out in the backyard, control my stereo and my TV, and many other great functions.
Now as a conservative, I do cringe when I see the CEO of the company act foolishly with regard to promoting homosexuality and other nonsense. But you will find that same kind of foolishness with competitors of Apple as well. So I need to put that aside and choose the computing products that gives me the most value for my money and Apple wins that hands down.