Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

On 2024-11-27 12:01, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

So it reflects having an intact brain, to pay $400 extra for something
i got for barely over $100, 3 1/2 years ago?  "Riiiiight".

It can, yes.
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Because you don't buy an SSD just to have one on a shelf.

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In other words, because Apple requires these payments, you rationalize
that you didn't really need so much empty space, anyway.  Congrats.
Meanwhile, I already had that much empty space, going back years.  Is
it superfluous?  Maybe.  But then again, it's elite.

No, that's not what I said or meant at all.
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You buy a computer SYSTEM.
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It's value to the end user is what the whole SYSTEM can do.
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Does Apple charge a premium for expanding the storage? Absolutely.
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Is it worth it in order to get a personal computer system that works as
well as a Mac does? Absolutely.

  How is that not proving my point, that you're rationalizing?

Because I'm using a complete system that works well for me.
When I bought my current machine, I considered my space requirements and got the 1TB option, and that cost me an additional $250.
I didn't do it for "bragging rights" or to declare my system to be "elite".
I did it because I USE the space.
And I paid Apple's premium because life experience (more than 30 years using, selling, and supporting both Macs and Windows personal computers) has shown me the value of a system that works as well as a Mac does.
My entire computer is the tool I purchased, and I looked at the entire price of the tool I needed and the value of that tool to me and I paid it. All in, the price as $2,200
I fully expect this tool to serve me well for the next 5-7 years, so the monthly cost is no more than $36.67.

 

And having empty space isn't "elite".

  And yet Apple charges such a premium for it, that you would think it
was ...

Nope. Rational people don't think that paying for something they're not using is in any way, shape or form "elite"?
There's a saying that you should learn:
'There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.'