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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
crapple? I don't own an IOS device, but I have a hard time giving any credence to someone using such a term with out substantial stated reasons. Have you had years of hands on experience with Apples?
I understand someone not liking it, but with millions of seemingly happy users I doubt it is quite that bad.
Helen
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Liking it doesn't mean that the product is good; not even windows which started as all glitz & no substance.
Let's see, my 1st encounter with apple was trying to decide whether to get an Atari or Apple II. On the Apple side: I want to use the TV as a monitor with Color? That's an extra $100; I want to be able to use both upper case & lower case? That's another $100.
Sometime later the Mac 512 came out & my coworker said that the Mac had a "very good" project management software. So brought my either Atari ST or Dos formatted 3 1/2 diskette. Put it in the Mac & expecting that it didn't like it but will format the diskette to suit, like normal computers. However, the Mac not only won't recognize it but won't format the diskette & won't eject it; my last resort was to just unplug the power whereby the diskette ejected; someone later that there is a pin-hole to use for ejecting the diskette!!?? We later got a loan of a LISA to checkout but it became just a printer server for the laserjet.
Went to buy a used 4mm tape drive for backup Dos/windows; was given a new Mac 4 mm tape drive & was told that it will work with the PC; but the PC version won't work with the Mac.
Found later that crapple used roms/chips in their hardware & that the OS won't work if the roms were not present. Was verified when the sysadmin swapped the hard disk between an IBM & a Mac, both drivers were made by Seagate. Naturally, the Mac drive worked on the PC but not the reverse, not even reformatting the drive. An apple user all the way from the the apple ii thought that something in the ram chips were done to stop users from not paying for apple ram.
It was noted that apple products are mostly bought by the boomer generation with much money; but the "me" gen mirrors them.
Of course, I used to use "microsh*t" term as well, but the censorship are being picky more now. I don't use win7 now only because I've had to do a fresh win7 install several times which looks like being messed up by the "security"/virus programs since each time the win7 got installed the ownership of the hard disks & partitions got changed & I had to change each back for permissible access. Win8 "fixed" the ownership problem as every ownership got changed instead of having various ownerships; but then win8 removed the normal user access to change ownership. The ownership forced a very long delay even when doing a "dir" to see the directory; & every time i tried to run a program or access a file, it goes thru the security, virus & other malware check......
I've decided to stop eating so many apples because of diabetes & will shortly saying "crapple".