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Originally Posted by elcreative
djgreedo, for someone who likes to rant about fanbois slavish devotion to Apple's products, you do a remarkable good job of irritating people with your personal agenda/propaganda especially when defined by you as your personal crusade and principled... and this from the Kindle user who isn't tied to a company that implements DRM on their products with a standard file format that is generally recognised as being behind the times...  |
Apple fanboys gotta fan: Apple haters gotta hate.
Apple is an enormously successful and diverse company that is at once a computer manufacturer, a computer and consumer electronics retailer, and a multimedia merchandiser. Their moves are not going to please everyone all the time.
I remember back in 1998 when Apple rolled out its Imac line of computers without internal floppy disk drives. At that time I thought Apple was nuts!
I was not the only one: there was a tidal wave of disapproval at the time. Apple haters had a field day crowing about the "arrogance" of Apple , the disregard Apple had for its consumers, and the mindless devotion of Apple customers who licked the boots that kicked them. Two years later, Apple's decision was seen as prescient.
Did Apple make a mistake here? Maybe: since we don't know Apple's long-term business objectives, we can't be sure as yet.
The Apple haters have been wrong an awful lot over the past ten years: I guess I have more faith in Apple than in the Apple haters.