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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: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:00:26 -0800
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On 2024-11-27 16:14, 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.
> 
> 
> It suggests that Apple doesn't mind collecting their hard-earned
> money, over and over, given their willingness to lazily hand it to
> them.

LOL

It suggests that Mac work 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.
> 
> 
> 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 act as if you didn't have the foresight to see where the world was going.

> 
> 
>>> 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?
In that each is something a person buys to accomplish some task (or 
tasks) beyond simply owning the device (and having "bragging rights" for 
how 1337 his choices were).