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

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.

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No. It's a business decision Apple has made and it clearly works well
enough for many consumers.

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There it is, rationalization of Apple's hand-holding.  Pathetic.

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Nope.
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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...
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...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"?

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You can make excuses, rationalize, but Apple is just crapware, is the
truth.  They take you for a sucker.

My systems just work.
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:-)

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And that's fine - but mine just works, too.

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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.

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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).