I think you're missing the point. Nobody wants the Apple hardware, they just want the operating system. Apple has the ability to bring a unix-based operating system into the mainstream and give serious competition to Microsoft. The public is not heard by their voice, they are heard by their checkbooks.
I agree with most vendors trying to get the cheapest component they can find...most vendors (Dell, HP, etc) sell you something that doesn't have a solid upgrade path, but neither do Macs. Macs have better quality components going for them, but all hardware vendors, Apple included, plan for obsolescence. If they didn't, why would you ever go buy a new machine?
What you are missing is that most of us don't want the Apple components or hardware, we just want the operating system. I don't need the Apple "experience" of spending three or four grand on a computer that isn't as useful, upgradable, or robust as one I can build for a fifth of the cost, I just want to run a non-Microsoft OS on my machine aside from Linux.
The packaging and presentation? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Did I miss something here? Can you say "Cardboard box"?
Flashy translucent plastic pieces only sell computers to idiots who want a computer to match their decor, a fashion statement, instead of those who build their own machines so they know exactly what is inside of it, and know how to use it.
My toaster oven came in a cardboard box too.
You are right that the songs aren't going away for good, and if some band or artist has the only copies of their material on mp3.com, and they can them, good. Stupidity needs to be punished.
When you digitally sign the agreement with the fucks at mp3.com, you don't transfer ownership of it or anything, so technically, they don't own shit. They probably own the storage media that hosts the mp3 files, but they don't own any of them. The artists give them rights to distribute them, and anything above that the artist basically requests.
So I'm glad to see them go. Fuck them, and anyone who thinks that Michael what's his name pleading to "save the mp3's" is a good idea needs to be fucking shot in the nuts. The same thing with people who are shocked and appalled that Vivendi is in their minds "taking out the garbage" by destroying the archive. If they didn't do that, I wouldn't think twice about using the very laws they abuse against them, nor would most of the other artists on mp3.com who've been stiffed time and time again by them. And as far as the profiteer Michael is concerned, fuck him and everyone who looks like him. If he really gave a squirt of piss about the artists' interests he wouldn't have sold out to the majors in the first place!
I also want to point out in the last two days I've gotten 7 emails from spambots scouring mp3.com's email lists telling me of new and exciting places to shift my low-quality digital media. Don't know about the rest of you artists out there, but these places are now at the bottom of my list.
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I think you're missing the point. Nobody wants the Apple hardware, they just want the operating system. Apple has the ability to bring a unix-based operating system into the mainstream and give serious competition to Microsoft. The public is not heard by their voice, they are heard by their checkbooks. I agree with most vendors trying to get the cheapest component they can find...most vendors (Dell, HP, etc) sell you something that doesn't have a solid upgrade path, but neither do Macs. Macs have better quality components going for them, but all hardware vendors, Apple included, plan for obsolescence. If they didn't, why would you ever go buy a new machine? What you are missing is that most of us don't want the Apple components or hardware, we just want the operating system. I don't need the Apple "experience" of spending three or four grand on a computer that isn't as useful, upgradable, or robust as one I can build for a fifth of the cost, I just want to run a non-Microsoft OS on my machine aside from Linux.
The packaging and presentation? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Did I miss something here? Can you say "Cardboard box"? Flashy translucent plastic pieces only sell computers to idiots who want a computer to match their decor, a fashion statement, instead of those who build their own machines so they know exactly what is inside of it, and know how to use it. My toaster oven came in a cardboard box too.
You are right that the songs aren't going away for good, and if some band or artist has the only copies of their material on mp3.com, and they can them, good. Stupidity needs to be punished. When you digitally sign the agreement with the fucks at mp3.com, you don't transfer ownership of it or anything, so technically, they don't own shit. They probably own the storage media that hosts the mp3 files, but they don't own any of them. The artists give them rights to distribute them, and anything above that the artist basically requests. So I'm glad to see them go. Fuck them, and anyone who thinks that Michael what's his name pleading to "save the mp3's" is a good idea needs to be fucking shot in the nuts. The same thing with people who are shocked and appalled that Vivendi is in their minds "taking out the garbage" by destroying the archive. If they didn't do that, I wouldn't think twice about using the very laws they abuse against them, nor would most of the other artists on mp3.com who've been stiffed time and time again by them. And as far as the profiteer Michael is concerned, fuck him and everyone who looks like him. If he really gave a squirt of piss about the artists' interests he wouldn't have sold out to the majors in the first place! I also want to point out in the last two days I've gotten 7 emails from spambots scouring mp3.com's email lists telling me of new and exciting places to shift my low-quality digital media. Don't know about the rest of you artists out there, but these places are now at the bottom of my list.