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

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.

 
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.

...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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:-)

 
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 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?

--
Joel W. Crump

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Section 1.

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abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
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Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
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