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Originally Posted by Gideon
It's how this conversation always goes. Someone brings up Apple and people loose their cool. Just the way people are... they have to validate their own choices by pretending their is a virtue in their decision and deriding that of others.
When most the time it just happens to be what works for them, or whatever strange personal preferences came together to result in that choice.
Compare: sports teams, music, tv shows, books, etc.
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Aww, stop with the empty cliches, please. I *OWN* a Macbook, always had a Mac, there's nothing worng with Mac.
However it is dead wrong to act like if Apple is some sort of
inventor - they are not and they never were.
Apple is a highly competent industrial design and software company with a very smart marketing team who built an entire brand on fairly clueless but snobbish users paying double price for already available solutions. (no, those illustrators and musicians alone would never have kept Apple alive.)
Then they went on attacking the market 'en masse' with a simple music player - nothing revolutionary again, mind you - which pretty much single-handedly popularized the brand.
They were smart enough to back up this wave with the release of their revamped software, later hardware platforms so it's a very impressive operation with a lot of competent, good products.
However the notion that 'uhhh, Apple will make a Kindle-killer" etc is pathetic - anyone even slightly familiar with Apple's track record knows that 1st gen is usually buggy, overpriced, full of unfinished or misswing features. Like MIcrosoft's betas but this time for money.
Okay, the ovelry convoluted-complicated, buggy-as-hell, maddenly stupidly deisgned OSes have an even worse yet more expensive history...
Anyway, my point is this Apple-cult really pisses me off, every time I see it.
