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| Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 11:07 AM EDT |
One improvement is at least people get what
they pay for, in that the products actually
are delightful to use and to look at. I'll
miss both. Microsoft products were always
so tasteless and they surely were not
reliable, at least none of them that I ever
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| Authored by: egan on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 12:37 PM EDT |
that a wise US President nominates PJ to the US Supreme Court someday.
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| Authored by: DannyB on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 01:38 PM EDT |
It is funny. I remember when I was in college. I used punch cards for several
months before they disappeared completely.
This was still in the last half of the 70's. Microsoft was a nice company. It
seemed so. This was before IBM had a PC. I remember Microsoft Adventure.
Microsoft Basic. I thought fondly of the company.
I didn't know that within about five years I would be an Apple fanboy and
developer for the next 15 years.
I remember when IBM was the evil monopolist enemy even before they introduced
their famous PC. I remember how they gradually became irrelevant during the
80's. They woke up in the early 90's in a crisis realizing the microcomputers
had left them behind.
These changes don't happen overnight. There isn't one single day you can point
to and say that is the day when Microsoft became/becomes irrelevant. (They're
not irrelevant yet, but it's coming and there won't be a single day that it
happens on.)
Likewise, I can't identify an exact day when Apple became Evil. But I
recognized a couple years ago when it was. But my feelings about it being evil
weren't so strong, because I didn't perceive that it affected me.
Now I recognize that Apple wants to control my personal life with what products
I can choose to buy -- or develop for. I didn't mind Apple as long as they
didn't seem to affect me.
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The price of freedom is eternal litigation.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 01:38 PM EDT |
I guess I am stupid, but I have never seen an Apple product that I thought was
really designed well. Some of the cosmetics of Apple products are nice, but not
even all of those. Then you look under the hood and the devices are just awful.
Locked down and controlled, you have to let Apple dictate how you live your
life. Good design? I guess maybe everyone else just cares about cosmetics? I
dunno. Personally, I have looked at iPhones and iPads and iPods and once I
investigate I run for the hills. Why on Earth would I ever want one of those???[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: cpeter38 on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 11:14 AM EDT |
I was willing to accept the ecosystem premise when it was
the only choice that would let me get work e-mail on my
personal phone. I upgraded to the 4S and gave the 4 to my
wife. Yesterday our 2 year old chewed (slimed) on her 4.
Apple's ecosystem just bit us.
As you all know, the battery is not replaceable. You may not
know that the screws are proprietary to Apple. They require
a Pentalobe screwdriver. I couldn't find one in the entire
Metro area. The uncooked rice trick didn't work as
fast as the saliva did. I hadn't thought to pre-purchase the
internet only tools to take the phone apart and it is now
dead!
Bricked!!
My kids had deep sixed a previous phone but I was able to
pull the battery and dry it out - it came back fully
functional.
I am not sure which aggravates me more, the unrecoverable
nature of the failure that was caused by Apple's desire to
keep me in their ecosystem or their desire to prevent me
from choosing any other device.
Either way, the choice for replacing the brick is clear - a
Samsung Galaxy S3.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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