Wow man, you really need to turn the conspiracy dial down a bit....You know what? Scratch that. You, personally, need to turn the volume up to 11. You are the best of Slashdot, a little ball of completely unfettered hate. Therefore, I nominate you King of Slashdot. You are everything/. aspires to: mindlessly conspiratorial towards anything that can even remotely be tied to Apple. And your hatred -- really deep of hatred -- Steve "That Motherfucker" Jobs... I don't think you could have condensed more haterboi memes into one message if you'd tried.
And you even got modded to five.
Let's see... Alter Relationship... "Friend", "Yup, positive". Aaand done.
HERE LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL WHO WILL LISTEN: MPAPET (761907) IS THE NEW KING OF SLASHDOT. AS IT IS WRITTEN LET IT BE SO. SO SAY WE ALL.
"Obama is known to hold a grudge a really, really long time based on reports from those around him, and I think he has had conservatives in his sights for a while. Now that he finally has a weapon, the popularity of the health care bill, he is going to take every opportunity to wield it against conservatives....
Obama can come up with a billion supposedly practical reasons why they shouldn't succumb to conservative demands, but it really all boils down to the fact that Obama hates conservatives and is trying to get back at them in any way he can."
Even if this is accurate -- which, given the source, I kinda doubt -- so freakin' what?
Looks like/. is taking a page from the Fark playbook and posting flamebait worthy articles to drum up page clicks.
Birds tweet. They all tweet to each other. And they do so using tin cans and string.
So they're flying along, happy tweeting on their retro iPhones when all of a sudden this doped up whale jumps in the middle of them, dragging them all to their doom.
Birds = Twitter Whale = system/network load/myth of Rails scalability
Or just use Expose. Or just click on the icon on the Dock. The only time the problem you describe actually shows itself are for applications that are GDI-style, and those are few and far between these days.
The Dock is fine as an app switcher for 99% of the cases. If you want to bring Mail to the front, you click on it. How could that be any simpler?
The page you linked to shows malware, not viruses. No system is immune to malware. And as far as viruses are concerned, there has never an OS X virus. Ever.
And the market share thing has been debunked time and time again. You think that if virus writers could capture 100% of 8% of the market that they wouldn't have done so sometime in the past 8 years?
Maybe there aren't many (or any) viruses, worms and whatnot targeting the platform today, but they will come, and when they arrive, it will be a good idea to have some protection installed beforehand.
People have been saying the same damn thing for 8 years. "Just wait, one day OS X will get a virus. You'll see."
Ok, well, after hearing this for almost a decade I'm kinda starting to get skeptical.
To actually believe that he wants to sell music and videos that will play on non-apple products is naive at best.
Eat shit, you condescending fuckwad.
Apple's number one motivating factor across their entire product line has always been to have a clean user experience. DRM puts an unnecessary burden upon the user. It should surprise no one that Jobs doesn't like it.
But then again, there are always your run-of-the-mill assholes who think their cynical worldview makes them superior and wise.
Yesterday Exxon-Mobil announced they made $11 billion dollars in profit last quarter, the largest profit of any company in American history. Today, Republicans are making a huge fuss about giving drilling rights, above and beyond the used and unused leases the oil companies currently have.
There's a connection here, but I'm not smart enough to see it.
Oh wait, maybe it's that the GOP is in the pockets of the oil companies, and know that if they make a concerted enough effort that the talk-radio listening drones will join in the cacophony.
Morons. This fake sanctimony just makes them look weak.
The problem is, sometimes that doesn't work (like when finder is dying and you need to restart it, which you can only do through the right click menu) so I have to go find a USB mouse, plug it in, hope it works, and then use that to right click.
Look astroturfer, I'm using a 12-year-old Logitech Trackman Marble on my shiny new 17" iMac.
This canard is tired, tired, tired. Please go troll elsewhere.
The reason why those applications you mention aren't ported and sold for Windows or Linux? Because it would dilute the brand.
I can think of several reasons why they wouldn't be ported, of which "branding" is only one. But the overarching reason is because it is not profitable for them to do so.
I think part of the disconnect is due to the nebulosity of the term "brand." Apple makes good products that appeal to millions of people. The quality of those products helps their brand, yes. So does customer loyalty. You go on to say: "Apple make great products - but they are nothing without their 'brand', which is why they so fiercely defend it." The only quibble I have with that statement is the "they are nothing" part. Apple is nothing without the great products; the brand is a result of that.
Say what you want about Microsoft, but at least they never leveraged their OS dominance by producing a "Microsoft PC" and then "phasing out" all the other hardware manufacturers.
"Phasing out"? What are you talking about?
And let's not even get into the fact that Apple competes via lawsuit orders of magnitude more often than Microsoft.
Bollocks. You're just making shit up because you hate Apple.
Umm, no. Microsoft would have every right to go after vendors who were including unlicensed, modified versions of Windows in their systems. How is this any different?
Precisely. But since Apple is just brand image, they really do have no choice.
Yeah. OS X is crap. It's not even really a real operating system. It's all shiny, nothing else. That whole UNIX certification thing is just eye-candy.
And those systems they sell? Crap. Fall apart constantly, people bitch about them, take them back, don't get support provided for them.
And their software? Also crap. Those professional photographers who use Aperture just do it for the image, not because they like it better.
And iLife? Crap. No one can figure out how to make it work. It's been an utter disaster.
I mean really, why do they even bother? Shit, everyone knows that all you need to be successful is a good brand. If your product sucks donkey balls, you'll still be profitable, year after year. All you need is a good brand! Experience doesn't matter, quality doesn't matter. Just brand! 100% of Apple's success is due to their brand, not because they make good products. Obviously!
Well, that and I a link to Apple's policy that flatly contradicts you.
I mean, yeah, other than that everything's balanced.
BTW: For future reference, your "friends" might want to consider a lawsuit. Typically when companies fail to live up to their documented policies, they get sued. They did sue them, didn't they? Or maybe there's been other incidents of people suing Apple for not providing support that Apple is egally obligated to provide?
No, no there hasn't. Huh. Interesting. It's almost like... I dunno... you're lying or something.
Fuck you, you lying sack of shit. I took my MBP into the Mac store 6 months ago to get the DVD burner replaced. Guess what? Had upgraded RAM from Crucial in it, nobody gave a fuck. Walked out 30 minutes later with a brand new burner.
I'm sorry, but you just made yourself look like a complete moron.
Upgrading components is, and always has been, completely supported on Macs. If you think upgrading your HD will void the warranty then you simply have no idea what you are talking about.
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Wow man, you really need to turn the conspiracy dial down a bit. ...You know what? Scratch that. You, personally, need to turn the volume up to 11. You are the best of Slashdot, a little ball of completely unfettered hate. Therefore, I nominate you King of Slashdot. You are everything /. aspires to: mindlessly conspiratorial towards anything that can even remotely be tied to Apple. And your hatred -- really deep of hatred -- Steve "That Motherfucker" Jobs... I don't think you could have condensed more haterboi memes into one message if you'd tried.
And you even got modded to five.
Let's see... Alter Relationship... "Friend", "Yup, positive". Aaand done.
HERE LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL WHO WILL LISTEN: MPAPET (761907) IS THE NEW KING OF SLASHDOT. AS IT IS WRITTEN LET IT BE SO. SO SAY WE ALL.
"Obama is known to hold a grudge a really, really long time based on reports from those around him, and I think he has had conservatives in his sights for a while. Now that he finally has a weapon, the popularity of the health care bill, he is going to take every opportunity to wield it against conservatives. ...
Obama can come up with a billion supposedly practical reasons why they shouldn't succumb to conservative demands, but it really all boils down to the fact that Obama hates conservatives and is trying to get back at them in any way he can."
Haterbois: The teabaggers of tech.
No, it's not. You're just making zealous excuses.
Even if this is accurate -- which, given the source, I kinda doubt -- so freakin' what? Looks like /. is taking a page from the Fark playbook and posting flamebait worthy articles to drum up page clicks.
Birds tweet. They all tweet to each other. And they do so using tin cans and string.
So they're flying along, happy tweeting on their retro iPhones when all of a sudden this doped up whale jumps in the middle of them, dragging them all to their doom.
Birds = Twitter
Whale = system/network load/myth of Rails scalability
It's a gorgeous bit of iconography.
The Dock is fine as an app switcher for 99% of the cases. If you want to bring Mail to the front, you click on it. How could that be any simpler?
And the market share thing has been debunked time and time again. You think that if virus writers could capture 100% of 8% of the market that they wouldn't have done so sometime in the past 8 years?
If you're on the internet, you're vulnerable. Period.
I really can't think of any response more appropriate than this: you, sir, are a moron.
Have a nice day.
Maybe there aren't many (or any) viruses, worms and whatnot targeting the platform today, but they will come, and when they arrive, it will be a good idea to have some protection installed beforehand.
People have been saying the same damn thing for 8 years. "Just wait, one day OS X will get a virus. You'll see."
Ok, well, after hearing this for almost a decade I'm kinda starting to get skeptical.
These options are due to the requirements of the Blu-Ray spec, and were demanded by Hollywood in exchange for their support.
This needs to be repeated. It will probably be ignored, though. It causes cognitive dissonance amongst the "Steve Jobs is Satan" crowd around here.
To actually believe that he wants to sell music and videos that will play on non-apple products is naive at best.
Eat shit, you condescending fuckwad.
Apple's number one motivating factor across their entire product line has always been to have a clean user experience. DRM puts an unnecessary burden upon the user. It should surprise no one that Jobs doesn't like it.
But then again, there are always your run-of-the-mill assholes who think their cynical worldview makes them superior and wise.
Um, yes there is, and the hand holding the gun belongs to the record companies. "No DRM, no music." The only exception is EMI.
Yesterday Exxon-Mobil announced they made $11 billion dollars in profit last quarter, the largest profit of any company in American history. Today, Republicans are making a huge fuss about giving drilling rights, above and beyond the used and unused leases the oil companies currently have.
There's a connection here, but I'm not smart enough to see it.
Oh wait, maybe it's that the GOP is in the pockets of the oil companies, and know that if they make a concerted enough effort that the talk-radio listening drones will join in the cacophony.
Morons. This fake sanctimony just makes them look weak.
A thoughtful reply would be lost on you and your precious ego, so instead I offer up the following:
Go fuck yourself, scat muncher.
The problem is, sometimes that doesn't work (like when finder is dying and you need to restart it, which you can only do through the right click menu) so I have to go find a USB mouse, plug it in, hope it works, and then use that to right click.
Look astroturfer, I'm using a 12-year-old Logitech Trackman Marble on my shiny new 17" iMac.
This canard is tired, tired, tired. Please go troll elsewhere.
The reason why those applications you mention aren't ported and sold for Windows or Linux? Because it would dilute the brand.
I can think of several reasons why they wouldn't be ported, of which "branding" is only one. But the overarching reason is because it is not profitable for them to do so.
I think part of the disconnect is due to the nebulosity of the term "brand." Apple makes good products that appeal to millions of people. The quality of those products helps their brand, yes. So does customer loyalty. You go on to say: "Apple make great products - but they are nothing without their 'brand', which is why they so fiercely defend it." The only quibble I have with that statement is the "they are nothing" part. Apple is nothing without the great products; the brand is a result of that.
Changing the license agreement a la Apple so that Windows would only run on their own hardware they produce.
What, like 10 years ago? So what? They made a business decision. It's their product. Why shouldn't they?
Are you serious? Apple is notorious for their lawsuits, starting from the infamous "look and feel" many moons ago.
Yes, I'm serious. You claim Apple is "orders of magnitude" more litigious than Microsoft. Prove it.
Say what you want about Microsoft, but at least they never leveraged their OS dominance by producing a "Microsoft PC" and then "phasing out" all the other hardware manufacturers.
"Phasing out"? What are you talking about?
And let's not even get into the fact that Apple competes via lawsuit orders of magnitude more often than Microsoft.
Bollocks. You're just making shit up because you hate Apple.
Umm, no. Microsoft would have every right to go after vendors who were including unlicensed, modified versions of Windows in their systems. How is this any different?
Precisely. But since Apple is just brand image, they really do have no choice.
Yeah. OS X is crap. It's not even really a real operating system. It's all shiny, nothing else. That whole UNIX certification thing is just eye-candy.
And those systems they sell? Crap. Fall apart constantly, people bitch about them, take them back, don't get support provided for them.
And their software? Also crap. Those professional photographers who use Aperture just do it for the image, not because they like it better.
And iLife? Crap. No one can figure out how to make it work. It's been an utter disaster.
I mean really, why do they even bother? Shit, everyone knows that all you need to be successful is a good brand. If your product sucks donkey balls, you'll still be profitable, year after year. All you need is a good brand! Experience doesn't matter, quality doesn't matter. Just brand! 100% of Apple's success is due to their brand, not because they make good products. Obviously!
Well, that and I a link to Apple's policy that flatly contradicts you.
I mean, yeah, other than that everything's balanced.
BTW: For future reference, your "friends" might want to consider a lawsuit. Typically when companies fail to live up to their documented policies, they get sued. They did sue them, didn't they? Or maybe there's been other incidents of people suing Apple for not providing support that Apple is egally obligated to provide?
No, no there hasn't. Huh. Interesting. It's almost like... I dunno... you're lying or something.
So it's a conspiracy. All those 3rd party market survey companies, they're in on the whole thing.
Ok then. Can't argue with that
Fuck you, you lying sack of shit. I took my MBP into the Mac store 6 months ago to get the DVD burner replaced. Guess what? Had upgraded RAM from Crucial in it, nobody gave a fuck. Walked out 30 minutes later with a brand new burner.
Oh, and:
Apple Warranty: Installing Memory, Expansion Cards, User Installable Parts Does Not Void Warranty
If it's all marketing then why does Apple have the highest consumer satisfaction rates in the entire industry?
If their products were crap, or even equivalent, consumers would not speak so highly of them, for so long after their purchases.
Upgrading components is, and always has been, completely supported on Macs. If you think upgrading your HD will void the warranty then you simply have no idea what you are talking about.