What Apple product/s do you use?

[j2k4]

I would sum things up this way, from what I have seen and heard:

Apple fans have 'contempt' for those who 'hate' Apple products, while the rest of us really don't care.

Kinda like politics.

[Alan92RTTT]

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[stealthify]

That's the one.

You weren't looking up radioactive tsunamis, were you Scotty?

[GTO Assassin]

I would sum things up this way, from what I have seen and heard:

Apple fans have 'contempt' for those who 'hate' Apple products, while the rest of us really don't care.

Kinda like politics.

No, that's just silly, allthough I could also be faulted as I think all Americans are stubborn and arrogant, when in fact it's just a large majority! (I kid of course)
All honda owners are tools because they think they are fast!
All Asians are bad drivers.
See where I'm going with this?

You weren't looking up radioactive tsunamis, were you Scotty?

lol... I wasn't even home when it happened.

Scotty

[Granny]

Apple sauce FTW

[IPD]

apple is full of fail. i could write a thesis on why this is the case--and backed by a litany of documentation from an armada of different, reputable individuals. even if i did though--it wouldn't phase the i-tards one damn iota. so i'll sum it up in laymens terms here:

-apple is a personality cult; quite similar to n.korea. apple stock tanked when jobs had liver problems. seriously.

-steve jobs is the master of BS, spin, and hyperbole (compare apple's stance on intel before and after apple started using their CPU's, among other things.)

-"security through obscurity" is a myth

-apple's market-cap vs. it's command % of the market is highly unbalanced; the stock will eventually tank. it's a "When"...not an "If".

-"it's not a flaw, it's a feature" is even sillier than "640k ought to be enough for anybody".

-foxconn

-"macs can run both OS's" is a load of bunk; apple will send a swat team to your house if you so much as whisper the word "hackintosh". now who is more "open", hmmmmm?

-use of apple devices placed on one's lap for extended periods of time can function as effective birth control. seriously. cooling has always been of tertiary concern to designers. form > function rules all apple products.

-google will data-mine you almost as bad as facebook; microsoft will annoy the shit out of you; linux will not function properly with anything unless you go through extensive tweaking. and yet...i'd still run any of those three over the "if you want to see porn on your phone, get an android" dogmatic apple.

-anything apple can do, someone else can do better. cheaper. with less design flaws, better user interface, greater future-compatibility, and with substantially better reliability.

[GTO Assassin]

My God you people are just... I dont have words.

Michael Jordan quits the NBA - what happened to Nike's stock?
Tiger Woods releases new DVD titled, "My best 18 holes" isn't actually about golf - Nike's stocks crash downward.
Are you saying Nike is rubbish as well or just not as good as ADDIDAS?

One product will work for one person. It may not for the next as well as another product may.

You all carry on as tho Apple OWES you better, like they hurt you in some way. Get the fuck over it.

Scotty

[IPD]

My God you people are just... I dont have words.

Michael Jordan quits the NBA - what happened to Nike's stock?
Tiger Woods releases new DVD titled, "My best 18 holes" isn't actually about golf - Nike's stocks crash downward.
Are you saying Nike is rubbish as well or just not as good as ADDIDAS?

One product will work for one person. It may not for the next as well as another product may.

You all carry on as tho Apple OWES you better, like they hurt you in some way. Get the fuck over it.

Scotty

you're not making the connection here. jordan and woods may represent nike; but jobs IS apple. look back over the history of the company and you'll see it's true. woz was the man who put the solder to circuit board....but jobs was the one who smiled for the cameras. it should be most telling that woz isn't actively involved with the company--and jobs is. translation: there's more sizzle than substance.

looks to me like you started this thread to defend your love of apple. if you love them, great. it's YOUR money. I, on the other hand, remain firmly entrenched in the belief (with factual data to back my position) that anything apple offers can be had cheaper, richer in features, and more reliable--from a competing brand. and even IF it doesn't exist yet--wait a year and watch.

apple doesn't owe ME anything. in truth...it actually owes quite a bit to xerox for inventing the things which it utilized to springboard it to where it is now. it also owes quite a bit to the lawyers who have stiff-armed apple's will over the wills of people who had patents on things apple tried to claim credit for. and to the lawyers who destroyed psystar because apple desired it.

no....you would NEVER see apple get away with the business practices they have if their market share was significantly bigger. it would be called "anti-competitive". steve jobs is also a slave-driver:

DailyTech - Report Gives Inside Peek at Apple and Its "Emperor"

compare that with how google treats its employees. and i'm not even much of a google-fan anymore. google is turning evil. microsoft has been evil, and is currently slightly better off at "bad". apple....words cannot aptly describe how evil apple is.

[GTO Assassin]

Like I've said a gazillion times, I dont know computers. I have never said Apple is better than PC. I'm not defending Apple, I'm merely pointing out how you lot carry on when Apple is mentioned. You carry on like you've been burned or they owe you. If they dont matter, you wouldn't care and wouldn't rant on about it.

Scotty

[IPD]

i do care. i shouldn't...because what you decide to utilize for your personal use doesn't effect me. at the same time though, i can't shake the feeling that anyone who does buy into it--could be doing better off with the money spent. and THAT'S what gets me. why, in the face of everything that rationally speaks to the contrary--do people indulge? and it's not isolated to apple...its pretty systemic. still...none of that effects me.



what does effect me...is what these sheeple (in large numbers) are capable of. ....like picking elected officials, for instance. if we can't get the masses to rationally select electronic hardware--what possible hope do we have for the future? and i'm not even really worried about the future. i'm worried about how it effects me. every day that goes by i get the feeling more and more that i'm living inside the movie idiocracy.