I put up a folding table in my yard to sell lemonade for $50 a glass. For some odd reason people are passing me by and purchasing my competitors product.
It's all the fault of the company that made the folding table They need to do more so that people like me can succeed.
GPL: Richard Stallman creates the GPL in his spare time because he wants to scratch his philosophical itch about a bug that he could have easily worked around.
Microsoft: Bill Gates was a Harvard undergraduate, getting his tution tab paid by daddy, when he started writing software in his spare time.
Linux: Linus Torvalds wrote Linux in his spare time because he wanted to prove his professor wrong.
there is no possible way to keep these things from sticking. These things require physical scraping and nasty solvents to remove, even from a brand new shiny slick paint finish.
You are the one who has chosen to live in a place without the ability to leave a package, why do you think the world is going to adapt to you? You need to adapt to the modern world.
I must be some sort of chameleon creature in your eyes, on the one hand, I have so much money that I splurge on a Mac, and on the other I am so broke that I pirate software.
Which vending machine did you purchase your analytic skills from?
What are you complaining about? You bought into the OSX way. You are not buying a computer. You are paying for the use of a Mac. Keep paying and they will make you happy with better machines and better software.
If you are not willing to keep paying: that is fine too. You have a great piece of hardware and it will run Linux or even Windows well. Bully for you. At least it's a mainstream intel machine. Don't expect Apple to lift a finger for you.
People lease cars for 3 years and move on to a new one, it's commonly accepted practice.
Even though cars have been around for 100 years and the new ones are really only marginally better than the older ones.
Modern cars last 10 years no problem even in the salt and snow of new england.
So WHY do people FREAK out when they roll over computer purchases in the same 3 year period? The progress rate is very high so the modern system makes the 3 year old one look like junk and STILL people moan and complain!
If Apple can chop huge blocks of code from their code base because they can assume a minimum level of functionality from the graphics hardware then they can reduce the number of lines of code in the product and increase the reliability of the product.
Apple cares about its customers that use computers for professional reasons. They are the ones who keep coming back to buy new ones. They are the ones who get high performance and reliability for their modern computers.
In case you haven't figured it out, Apple doesn't care about you. You can make a huff about it but really they just don't care about you and your old computer.
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I put up a folding table in my yard to sell lemonade for $50 a glass. For some odd reason people are passing me by and purchasing my competitors product.
It's all the fault of the company that made the folding table They need to do more so that people like me can succeed.
Who says your business model HAS to make money?
You can complain about your inability to sell popsicles at outdoor hockey games, too!
Counterexamples:
GPL: Richard Stallman creates the GPL in his spare time because he wants to scratch his philosophical itch about a bug that he could have easily worked around.
Microsoft: Bill Gates was a Harvard undergraduate, getting his tution tab paid by daddy, when he started writing software in his spare time.
Linux: Linus Torvalds wrote Linux in his spare time because he wanted to prove his professor wrong.
I could go on and on...
"I want to develop an image editor for home users and sell it for a reasonable fee, then I will have problems doing that"
Why on earth do you assume that business models plucked at random out of the air are supposed to be profitable?
Really? So if I burned your software onto the unused portion of 100,000 USB sticks then you have lost 100,000 sales?
"something has to be done to get cash flowing towards the developers of Android applications."
Maybe people could USE THEIR OWN APP STORE? That way people could cut out google and deal directly with the consumer!
Oh wait IT ALREADY DOES THAT
I suppose you've never lived in a place where they dump salt on the roads in the winter?
Around here EVERYONE shows up at the car wash on a warm spring day.
what about:
- dead bugs
- tree sap
- particles of hot patch
there is no possible way to keep these things from sticking. These things require physical scraping and nasty solvents to remove, even from a brand new shiny slick paint finish.
"All?"
How can that be "all"?
Yeah it's just another day when the NY Times publishes an article that implicates their best advertisers in a nefarious government plot.
Honestly you really think they aren't putting tracking devices in disposable phones? Wake up and smell the espionage
Just about every job taken away from retail is going to be replaced by a warehouse job.
UPS and other package delivery companies will also have to hire more.
Has anyone calculated the energy savings from people not driving to the grocery store?
I think on the whole this is a positive thing.
Clubbing is still in! My wife and I share our bulk purchases with our extended family and friends. Everybody gets a great deal.
You are the one who has chosen to live in a place without the ability to leave a package, why do you think the world is going to adapt to you? You need to adapt to the modern world.
So can the delivery people
LOGIC FAIL!! OMFG!!!
I must be some sort of chameleon creature in your eyes, on the one hand, I have so much money that I splurge on a Mac, and on the other I am so broke that I pirate software.
Which vending machine did you purchase your analytic skills from?
If you are complaining:
What are you complaining about? You bought into the OSX way. You are not buying a computer. You are paying for the use of a Mac. Keep paying and they will make you happy with better machines and better software.
If you are not willing to keep paying: that is fine too. You have a great piece of hardware and it will run Linux or even Windows well. Bully for you. At least it's a mainstream intel machine. Don't expect Apple to lift a finger for you.
whassa matta U???
Never heard of vmware???
> You are speculating about their motives.
I'm CITING SOUND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICE.
You are whining because you want to use professional quality tools but you are not willing to pay professional quality prices.
mod parent up up up
If you use a computer professionally, prepare to pay for service.
If you don't use a computer professionally, you're not the target customer, so don't expect to be treated that way.
> You buy Apple hardware to get Apple software.
WRONG WRONG WRONG
I bought a MacBook for the HARDWARE
It mostly runs Linux
My GOODNESS have you SHOPPED??? Nobody makes a laptop as sweet as a MacBook. NOBODY.
People lease cars for 3 years and move on to a new one, it's commonly accepted practice.
Even though cars have been around for 100 years and the new ones are really only marginally better than the older ones.
Modern cars last 10 years no problem even in the salt and snow of new england.
So WHY do people FREAK out when they roll over computer purchases in the same 3 year period? The progress rate is very high so the modern system makes the 3 year old one look like junk and STILL people moan and complain!
I just don't get it.
If Apple can chop huge blocks of code from their code base because they can assume a minimum level of functionality from the graphics hardware then they can reduce the number of lines of code in the product and increase the reliability of the product.
Apple cares about its customers that use computers for professional reasons. They are the ones who keep coming back to buy new ones. They are the ones who get high performance and reliability for their modern computers.
In case you haven't figured it out, Apple doesn't care about you. You can make a huff about it but really they just don't care about you and your old computer.
Wow you think that $$$ can solve software management issues
go read "The Mythical Man Month" one more time
So in other words you are perfectly happy with the computer you have, and you have nothing to complain about, because the new stuff is all junk
Why do you even bother posting when life is nirvana for you?