god who cares, if you don't like apple's prices, don't pay them...if you can find said pauly shore album elsewhere for $5, no one is stopping you from buying it.
I'd say their concern is more based around the fact they are a hardware company and their software is mainly used to sell their hardware. If you can easily run their software on cheap x86 boxes, then there is no longer a compelling reason to buy their computers.
this is changing though...the ipod got the pc heads attention, and the mac mini is just the icing on the cake.
i grew up using apple's and used to get a bit of flack from my windows using buddies over my small 9 inch monochrome screen etc...i switched to pc's when i started university since it was all i could afford. these days however, a lot of my friends who used to be pc enthusiasts are talking about macs and are buying them and loving them.
whats more, is that more and more people who are new to computers are jumping on board because they've got ipods and all of a sudden apple's pricing is starting to hit the sweet spot.
so yeah, it used to be hard to find a true computer geek that would recommend a mac, but those days are passing.
so what if they've got an agenda?? highlighting the fact that situation normal is pretty fucked up and that you can be arrested for annoying lawyers is a good thing if you ask me.
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even that is a reflection of your habits...
you let technology solve problems that human brains are crap at...ie sorting and maintaining long lists of data.
god who cares,
if you don't like apple's prices, don't pay them...if you can find said pauly shore album elsewhere for $5, no one is stopping you from buying it.
I'd say their concern is more based around the fact they are a hardware company and their software is mainly used to sell their hardware. If you can easily run their software on cheap x86 boxes, then there is no longer a compelling reason to buy their computers.
this is changing though...the ipod got the pc heads attention, and the mac mini is just the icing on the cake. i grew up using apple's and used to get a bit of flack from my windows using buddies over my small 9 inch monochrome screen etc...i switched to pc's when i started university since it was all i could afford. these days however, a lot of my friends who used to be pc enthusiasts are talking about macs and are buying them and loving them. whats more, is that more and more people who are new to computers are jumping on board because they've got ipods and all of a sudden apple's pricing is starting to hit the sweet spot. so yeah, it used to be hard to find a true computer geek that would recommend a mac, but those days are passing.
so what if they've got an agenda?? highlighting the fact that situation normal is pretty fucked up and that you can be arrested for annoying lawyers is a good thing if you ask me.