I have VLC on all my Macs. Surely you aren't inferring that you don't have a choice of video players in OSX?
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Apple's products are pretty much unique in being completely locked down.
...except for the part where you can actually add RAM, hard drives, batteries, etc. to Apple computers yourself. That is a far cry from being "completely locked down", since it isn't true.
For the life of me, I can't understand your logic. Are you honestly posturing that Apple devices are shipped in hermetically sealed cases that nobody can get into, or are you just trying to (wrongfully) paint Apple products as being not-upgradable?
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago?
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Ooh Ooh, I know....Macintosh!
Re:Revisionist history
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Back then, sonny, you built a computer like an Imsai, altair, cromenco, by starting with a metal box, putting in a non-switiching power supply, choosing the largest capacitors you could fit in the box, then an s-100 (altair) buss. then you picked a cpu board from one manufacturer, some memory cards from another, a keyboard uart decoder from another, a keybaord from another, a video card,
How is this any different from all the geeks over in the build-yer-own section at Fry's?
Re:The iPad is original Apple Redux
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Not to take the conversation too far off topic, but I'd argue the iPod success is not just about the iTunes store, but about the ease of managing and accessing thousands of song files on a portable device when 100s of competitor models were unable to do so (cue the iRiver/Nomad lovers in 3...2...1).
Also, for industrial design nerds like me, the iPod form factor is superior to the other players (except for the last generation video iPods that were chicklet shaped...ughh).
Jobs is looking to "exterminate" the personal computer? Hyperbole much?
Re:They also left out a good deal of context
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Interesting. The only thing I'd disagree with at that linked site is that journalists are fair game if they are embedded with enemy forces. You can't shoot journalists just because you don't like the side they are reporting from.
You are right, you can't argue with my logic because there's nothing to argue about. It's my money, and it's my time. If I think unboxing a router, plugging it into the wall, plugging it into the modem, and then clicking through a couple screens is worth $100 to me, then it is worth $100...TO ME.
That is such a tired, untrue, cliched argument. Granted, you can't easily go to Best Buy and purchase a battery for the iPhone, but I assure you I can find one online in about 1 minute.
Apple doesn't even make graphic cards, so yes, you actually can go buy a third party graphic card and put it in a Mac (granted, only the Pro is expandable these days, but my G4 has had all kinds of 3rd party stuff inside).
"More hardware"? What does that mean? I've purchased all kinds of non-Apple hardware over the years: USB and wireless mice, keyboards, hard drives, wireless routers, wireless USB adapters, USB hubs, monitors, printers, and so on.
The only Apple hardware I own other than the computers is Airport Extreme and a video adapter. Yeah, the Extreme costs $100 more than some random junk at Best Buy, but Time Machine worked instantly out-of-the-box, which was well worth the extra $100 I spent.
Next argument.
Re:Other solutions to the wifi problem
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If you have two devices, one of which is perfect, and a problem, obviously the device that is not perfect is the problem.
Not so simple, I'm afraid. What if, say, both devices can link to a wireless router, but the wireless router can only communicate to the first one that connects. That would be the fault of the router's design, not the second device that can't connect.
There was a friendly patrol in the area that called the gunship for overhead cover. The gunship removed what it thought was a threat to the friendly patrol on the ground. That was the objective.
I'll feed your obvious troll. Right next to my 500 employee software company is another tech company you may have heard of (AMD). About 15 miles North you have Apple's customer service and iPod/iPhone division. There's a little company called Dell here as well. You may remember Motorola, who sold all their stuff to Freescale.
IANAL, but don't I give consent to monitoring when prompted by nearly any government computer system (and any private corporations who do something similar)? If I don't want to be monitored, I don't use that system...seems simple enough.
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Once he is gone, hopefully Apple will become more customer choice friendly.
Yeah, because the last time Jobs was gone and Apple became a more "customer choice friendly" business, it nearly ran them out of business.
Please name one currently shipping Apple product that is "unopenable".
You just called Steve Wozniak "hip". Interesting.
I have VLC on all my Macs. Surely you aren't inferring that you don't have a choice of video players in OSX?
Apple's products are pretty much unique in being completely locked down.
...except for the part where you can actually add RAM, hard drives, batteries, etc. to Apple computers yourself. That is a far cry from being "completely locked down", since it isn't true.
For the life of me, I can't understand your logic. Are you honestly posturing that Apple devices are shipped in hermetically sealed cases that nobody can get into, or are you just trying to (wrongfully) paint Apple products as being not-upgradable?
Ooh Ooh, I know....Macintosh!
Back then, sonny, you built a computer like an Imsai, altair, cromenco, by starting with a metal box, putting in a non-switiching power supply, choosing the largest capacitors you could fit in the box, then an s-100 (altair) buss. then you picked a cpu board from one manufacturer, some memory cards from another, a keyboard uart decoder from another, a keybaord from another, a video card,
How is this any different from all the geeks over in the build-yer-own section at Fry's?
Not to take the conversation too far off topic, but I'd argue the iPod success is not just about the iTunes store, but about the ease of managing and accessing thousands of song files on a portable device when 100s of competitor models were unable to do so (cue the iRiver/Nomad lovers in 3...2...1).
Also, for industrial design nerds like me, the iPod form factor is superior to the other players (except for the last generation video iPods that were chicklet shaped...ughh).
Jobs is looking to "exterminate" the personal computer? Hyperbole much?
Interesting. The only thing I'd disagree with at that linked site is that journalists are fair game if they are embedded with enemy forces. You can't shoot journalists just because you don't like the side they are reporting from.
You are right, you can't argue with my logic because there's nothing to argue about. It's my money, and it's my time. If I think unboxing a router, plugging it into the wall, plugging it into the modem, and then clicking through a couple screens is worth $100 to me, then it is worth $100...TO ME.
That is such a tired, untrue, cliched argument. Granted, you can't easily go to Best Buy and purchase a battery for the iPhone, but I assure you I can find one online in about 1 minute.
Apple doesn't even make graphic cards, so yes, you actually can go buy a third party graphic card and put it in a Mac (granted, only the Pro is expandable these days, but my G4 has had all kinds of 3rd party stuff inside).
"More hardware"? What does that mean? I've purchased all kinds of non-Apple hardware over the years: USB and wireless mice, keyboards, hard drives, wireless routers, wireless USB adapters, USB hubs, monitors, printers, and so on.
The only Apple hardware I own other than the computers is Airport Extreme and a video adapter. Yeah, the Extreme costs $100 more than some random junk at Best Buy, but Time Machine worked instantly out-of-the-box, which was well worth the extra $100 I spent.
Next argument.
If you have two devices, one of which is perfect, and a problem, obviously the device that is not perfect is the problem.
Not so simple, I'm afraid. What if, say, both devices can link to a wireless router, but the wireless router can only communicate to the first one that connects. That would be the fault of the router's design, not the second device that can't connect.
It's for when I take my iPad to the UK and Germany. I get one of those three way AC adapters so it works no matter which country I'm in.
Except of the part where they flew airplanes into our buildings first.
Why did these people have video cameras? Because they were members of the press, for starters?
There was a friendly patrol in the area that called the gunship for overhead cover. The gunship removed what it thought was a threat to the friendly patrol on the ground. That was the objective.
Dude, 1990 called--it wants its "No Blood for Oil" argument back.
I'll feed your obvious troll. Right next to my 500 employee software company is another tech company you may have heard of (AMD). About 15 miles North you have Apple's customer service and iPod/iPhone division. There's a little company called Dell here as well. You may remember Motorola, who sold all their stuff to Freescale.
And that's just Austin...
Yes, I'm sure Home Depot and Wal-Mart provided more Creole and Spanish Linguists to Katrina than the US Army did...riiight.
Corporations are not altruistic. They are not working for the good of the world or their fellow humans.
You should Google, "Google" and "China".
Yes, and let the first rogue 3rd World country roll in and take over. Without taxes there's no National Defense (for starters).
Aside from my reluctance to take financial wisdom seriously from someone who uses "payed" instead of "paid",
I dunno...I'm ok with taking financial wisdom from a magazine titled "Forbes".
IANAL, but don't I give consent to monitoring when prompted by nearly any government computer system (and any private corporations who do something similar)? If I don't want to be monitored, I don't use that system...seems simple enough.
Nothing can be UNREASONABLY searched or seized without probably cause. That one word makes a big difference.
Nobody is arguing that electronic communications don't count as personal effects, since precedent has already determined that it does.