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Is Apple & Community Evangelizing Into Uncoolness?
kbeischer writes "John Kheit followed up his MacObsorne article, which others have since covered minus the parts detailing a Steve Jobs uncanny ability to repeat his own mistakes, with a scathing editorial damning the most of the Mac Press, Apple's managment and parts of the user base as a bunch of deranged goose-stepping lemmings that are ignoring the costs associated with the Mac PPC to Intel switch. In the editorial, he links to an older article on BOZO (bitter obstanate zealot order) users causing market share loss. All of which makes me wonder, do evangelical users and press help or hurt the popularity of a platform?"
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A: A better question would be, "Will x86 Macs be cheaper than 'equivalent' PowerPC-based Macs would have been had the IBM relationship not gone south?" My answer is "no." Expect Macs to remain more expensive than PCs.
Translation: Cheaper chip. Same Apple premium cost. Increased value for shareholders. I fail to see the problem here.
God damn, you're still talking about Doom 3. The best-selling technical demo ever to be released for the PC.
Too bad iD couldn't make an actual game, eh?
this topic is stupid
Oh, and maybe the reason you don't hear about the Sandisk player is because it's heavier, bigger and costs more than the shuffle, and so no one gives a fuck.
And the SanDisk has a built in voice recorder, an FM radio tuner, and a SCREEN. And due to Apple's AWESOME SCREWING of their international customers, the Shuffle is only cheaper in the States! EXCELLENT! It's 10 bucks more than the SanDisk everywhere else! Way to go, Crapple!
"Hey, the iPod Shuffle doesn't have a screen, so let's just say 'Life Is Random' until it catches on! Not having any control is the new cool! Look at me, I'm an idiot who just bought an iPod Shuffle without looking at the options, because this one's from Apple and the other one's not! I'm Brand Loyal! I'm a mindless sheep! I'm finally COOL, ma!"
p.s. Nice twisting of the Pentium thing. You must have majored in "Justifying BS and Revisionist History". If you didn't read the New York Times article, the reason Apple switched (according to "those liars at IBM") is that Jobs demanded a cut in price that IBM was unwilling to shoulder. That's it. It has NOTHING to do with performance. The G5's still kick ass and will continue to kick ass. Don't lie and say that all of a sudden the Pentiums are going to be better than IBM's chips. Jobs simply wanted to cut his costs, while not cutting the price of his units ONE RED CENT. He wanted to take you idiots for more than he already is (Apple's markups are the HIGHEST in the computer industry -- at least they're Number One at something). Wait and see if the Intel Macs are as inexpensive as the similarly constructed Dells out there. I don't think so, even with the year-old video cards, small hard drives, and slow-as-molasses RAM he drops in there. Don't you even know that the guy's taking you? Are you actually that stupid? How can you not know that you're getting ripped off? Whatever. It's fine with me, if you people are stupid enough to overpay on everything, that's your bad judgment, not mine. Jobs will keep raping you as long as you keep bending over and begging for it.