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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:02:39 -0800
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On 2024-11-27 13:21, Joel wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> 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.

> 
> 
>>>> ...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.

> 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?

>