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Originally Posted by OtinG
Well, I've been an Apple buyer since my first real computer the Apple II+ way back in the early 1980s. You probably were not around then. I was also around in the mid-1990s when Apple actually licensed the hardware to 3rd party companies, including Motorola. Jobs had rightfully been pushed out then as he knew nothing about running a computer company and had driven Apple to the brink of extinction. For a brief few years, you could purchase 3rd party boxes and install the Mac OS (which actually sucked big time in those days) and those boxes were generally cheaper and way better than any of the 1000 models sold by Apple at the time. Okay 1000 is an exaggeration  , but they had way too many models including a home line, a school line, and a business line, and none were that well equipped. Jobs returned and quickly killed off the licensing of hardware. My point is that Apple has been through a bunch of changes over the years. Your argument about changing 20 years under the same model is not going to hold water. The fact is they did have easily user modifiable Mac Minis as late as 2012. The fact is they didn't even know what an iPod was 20 years ago, much less what a smartphone was. It is okay to have different opinions, but to gripe at me for having an opinion about Mac Minis is not called for. Apple needs to understand that at some point people stop giving a bleep about how shiny and cosmetically appealing a device is and start needing true upgrades that are affordable and worthwhile. |
You might be surprised since I've been programming since the mid 70's and my first computer was an Apple IIe. I think that your memory is a bit off, given that one of the first computer copyright battles was the Apple/Franklin battle (Franklin was an Apple II clone).
You are welcome to your own opinion, I was pointing out that expecting a cheap, expandable computer from Apple is most likely to be met by disappointment given their history. Sometimes in life, someone is going to disagree with your opinion. That's not a gripe, it's a disagreement.