Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:14:09 +0000 From: Joel Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:14:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <80rckj1bferjoe36ukvf0hdt8eqk5561pr@4ax.com> <9g7ekj56e3ed15bs1f434sg1bijurfru65@4ax.com> <27vekjtp4q263gmgdo83cqar5048tujlj4@4ax.com> <9u0fkj1ts5bnvo8rrgsf961eor3tjttk0j@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OS: Debian 12, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Lines: 74 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-bjRRHpLkNb6MyiuIFRQour9+jWwyH95yKSQr0YfeyFQrlFmhflpxpP1JhzJiqovo+bZ9jB7uqN6B8Ez!m9yDoEEQ0eYI/HAYa/fEKZqkFv3NpowrHDRgNP40Il8ggt0oI17Vp4RARONbN7fM+GwmwMji X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4099 Alan wrote: >>>> I could add >>>> another [internal] SSD, without even removing my first one. Whereas with Apple, >>>> I have to decide up front exactly what the internal storage will >>>> always be. It's pathetic. >>> >>> No. It's a business decision Apple has made and it clearly works well >>> enough for many consumers. >> >> There it is, rationalization of Apple's hand-holding. Pathetic. > >Nope. > >Simply noting that when a company offers a product at a premium price >and many, many, MANY people not only buy it, but continue to buy it over >and over... > >...Occam's Razor suggests that they're doing so because it works well >for them. It suggests that Apple doesn't mind collecting their hard-earned money, over and over, given their willingness to lazily hand it to them. >>>>> ...I mean apart from "bragging rights" about how your system is "elite"? >>>> >>>> You can make excuses, rationalize, but Apple is just crapware, is the >>>> truth. They take you for a sucker. >>> My systems just work. >>> >>> :-) >> >> And that's fine - but mine just works, too. > >Aside from the integrated GPU that didn't. You act as if I was planning all along to upgrade my monitor to 4K - that is false. I happened to see a hot price, $200, on a 4K monitor, when I needed a new monitor, as the 1080p was barely visible anymore. So I took the plunge. I wish I had not. A more modest upgrade would've been better, but then again, there have been some niceties to the 4K, and the video card offering a second port has been useful. >> I expect to have to get >> my hands dirty, assembling hardware, and use my brain, setting up the >> OS and installing software. It's *my* computer, not Microsoft's, not >> Apple's or Dell's. Even when I first installed Win10 on it, in 2021, >> it was my setup of such, not an OEM's. > >Do you apply the same philosophy to buying a toaster? How are you going to insinuate that a toaster is like a PC? -- Joel W. Crump Amendment XIV Section 1. [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.