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Originally Posted by elcreative
Never mind HarryT, you're arguing with someone who "knows" all about 'Evil Apple" so never lets the facts get in the way of rhetorical statements...  |
This is where it started. With your personal attack and condescension, something that you're capable of dishing out, but got whiny about when I wouldn't lie down and take it. I've had this argument before, so I know that despite your repeated claims to be done with this conversation,
you'll still want the last word. Feel free (when I say I'm done, I actually mean it), but for the record, I still remember how it really went down no matter how much you'd like to blame me:
I did not ignore any facts in reasoning through to my opinion despite your quoted assertion to the contrary. I merely compared reports to the surrounding facts and circumstances and through independent reasoning decided the reports were less credible than reasonable inferences drawn from the results of Apple's (and hundreds of other DRM-using company's) experiences. I never claimed my opinion was factual, but you insisted that your differing opinion was factual because it was reported in the press, a logical fallacy known as an appeal to authority (with shades of appeal to majority).
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Originally Posted by elcreative
Weirdly, you seem to have missed a factual point... Apple didn't want DRM... this received wide coverage at the time on the 'net, in the press and TV news and documentaries...
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
That it was reported is a fact. That it was true is not.
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In the end, what really happened was that you assumed I was attacking Apple because Apple is Apple. You were wrong inasmuch as I'd already confessed mere posts before admiration for what they accomplished as well as the hope that others would follow their lead, but once confronted with the reality that I wasn't who you off-handedly and lazily assumed I was, you couldn't admit to that tiny error and just have a conversation as between two equals. Such is a loss to us both. My favorite conversations have always been with those who hold differing opinions to my own, and I would have been happy to chat further with HarryT or you, if you could have seen me as a human rather than your caricature.