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Newsflash: Mac Users Love Apple, Hate Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "An article on wired.com talks about how Mac users helped Apple through the dark years of the 90s." It goes on to discuss how a psychologist was hired to figure out how to woo Mac users away from Apple, with some (to him) surprising results.
Score: -1, Redundant
People who buy a company's product during dark times keeps the company from going under! Tune in at 6pm.
... that they have an exclusive club? I have despised MS for years and have never owned an Apple product.
They should call it crack!
You can't, because it doesn't go, like, "Beep! Beep! Beep!".
The ENIAC Demo Competition
Which distribution? ;-)
There needs to a psychosexual analysis of the Mac community.
Please, god, no.
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
"If you see somebody in an airport in London, or someplace down in Peru or something, and you see an Apple tag on their bag, or an Apple T-shirt, it's like the Deadheads ... you have an instant friend," ...
Isn't the same true for Linux ?
Yes. When you see another guy with a beard, or walking around barefoot, you know you have an instant friend. (Have mercy on me, moderators...)
Linux is more like heroin. Crack is easy to use; with heroin, you have a bunch of dumbasses trying to use it that end up shooting cotton or infecting their arms. And then they wonder why other people like heroin so much.
A more accurate quote would be "Commodore hired engineers, Aple hired engineers and marketers, Microsoft hired marketers"
Microsoft sells cars? Hm. Now I'm afraid to leave the house.
Dogma: Dead (mostly because your Karma ran it over)
That would be the PowerMac 7200, wouldn't it?
---- "If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved" - Erwin Schrodinger
...it turns out that Microsoft users also hate Microsoft. There was a slight difference between the degree of hatred between Microsoft users for Microsoft and Apple users for Microsoft but it was not found to be statistically significant, after removing Microsoft employees and shareholders from the Microsoft users sample.
I've gotten people to question their use of Apple's products simply by knighting a friend who uses Windows XP, solely for the reason that he isn't using a Mac.
I don't see it as loyalty when someone questions their use of a Macintosh solely upon seeing some guy knight another utilizing a plastic butter knife.
(And no, I'm not the Queen of England. But I say, if Microsoft can piss on anti-trust legislation, than I can piss on the Constitution and start handing out titles of nobility. Glory to the Imperium.)
Now, if you want to talk about real loyalty, walk into a room and shout, "[vi or emacs] rules! [the opposite of the previous] sucks!"
That, or find someone who uses Slack.
Linux/PPC geeks hate Apple b/c it keeps in secret details of its hardware from Linux/PPC developers.
And all linux geeks hate BSD ... b/c BSD is dead (don't you know that?).
Less is more !
Do Not speak directly to the moderators.
It's not the size of your .sig that matters, it's how you use it.
The MacOS kernel was always a joke. Apple had to buy NeXT to get engineers. Microsoft hired lawyers.
Well I just moved over to all-linux a few weeks ago. Today I had to fill out some forms in Windows/Office . My girlfriend walked over to kiss me and I totally snapped, "WHAT THE FSCK! ALL I WANT IS TO START A NEW LINE! FRIGGIN THING KEEPS AUTO-INDENTING FOR ME! WHY DO PEOPLE BUY PRODUCTS THAT REQUIRE 8 KEYSTROKES TO GET A NEWLINE? WHERE THE HELL IS THE RIGHT-JUSTIFY BUTTON HIDDEN TODAY? WHERE ARE MY FRIGGIN MENUS?"
Looks like switching to Linux was the right thing to do, since using Windows now makes me want to strangle everyone. I feel much more at peace.
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
Yes, but the reason Mac users are loyal to Apple is something called "Stockholm Syndrome". They've been held captive for so long, that they've started to love their captor ;-)
"Microsoft hired marketers"
That should be "Microsoft hired more marketers"
This guy is not too happy with OS X frankly he is kinda pissed
"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." -Harlan Ellison
What could be the attraction?
Ellen Feiss of course.
Yeah, PC users are different. They hate their captors, and either change them on a regular basis, or build their own prisons.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
I've got nothing against Amiga. But I do take umbrage with people who claim Amiga invented things they didn't.
Amiga - The Al Gore of Microcomputers.
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SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I met a model on an airplane once and she started telling me that she won't date guys that ride motorcycles. I told her that I had one and I asked her why not.
"Is it one of those Harleys?" she asked.
No, I replied, its a '91 Kawasaki.
"Well, maybe than I wouldn't have a problem. Most guys with Harleys spend so much on their motorcycles there's nothing left. The guys that have money left rely on their motorcycle to prop up their image, if you know what I mean."
So you'll look cool, but a lot of people think you're either broke or impotent...
Heh, the same could be said about Republicans.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
>Dude, I used my last mod point on you, and I'm a
;-)
>Mac user.
Not the brightest Mac user in the bunch, last I checked you loose your mod points in a thread after posting in it
Integrate Keynote and LaTeX
For a second there, I thought I was in the minority.
According to him their was a time when you bought a new one that you where lucky if you could drive it out of the shop. That doesn't seem to have killed of the brand or lost it any fans, in fact bikes from that era are collector items. If people forgive youre mistakes it means you have succeeded in what every company wants. Brand-loyalty. Lucasarts had it for a long time. Sure they made a couple of stinkers, afterlife, but by and large most gamers where willing to trust them. Hell any lucasarts adventure I will buy without even reading the back of the box. This kind of loyalty is very important since it allows a company to make mistakes/try new things and not be immidialty killed of for it.
If at as a competitor you are wondering how the hell a company gets away with it ask youreself what you youreself have done to win youre customers loyalty.
ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?
(Say 'what' one more goddamn time)
Any psychologist majors around who can explain this behaviour?
Yes, extreme laziness, or unwillingness to think while typing are the only explanations I can come up with for such horrible abuse of the language.
...as MAC or APPLE ?