On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 22:39 -0600, Satan wrote:
quoted 23 lines On Nov 1, 2004, at 10:31 PM, Irene McC wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2004, at 10:31 PM, Irene McC wrote:
>
> > On 1 Nov 2004 at 12:10, Ian Monroe wrote:
> >
> >> I just really hate Apple, and I refuse to buy anything from
> >> them for my own use.
> >
> > What's with hating Apple??? I'm aware of a hate campaign against
> > Windoze & all things Gates, but sitting here in South Africa I
> > haven't been aware of Apple being painted the Bad Guy.
> >
> > Please elucidate.
> >
>
> This appears to be from an elite group of haters. Also would like to
> hear the reason behind such a statement....maybe it has something to do
> with compatability issues?
>
>
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I dislike the fanboy/girls need to respond to every negative comment
about Apple or Steve Jobs.
I dislike Apple for compatibility reasons.
I dislike the theme of Apple being the god-send of a corporation with a
mission to crush evil Microsoft. But if they were in a similiar
situation as Microsoft, they would be acting in a similiar manner - just
like every company does. (if not even worse - since Steve Jobs is
somewhat fucked up, if the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley portrays him
accurately at all)
I dislike Apple because I associate their products to premium products
that do not provide any additional functionality than commodity
products. (this can be very subjective obviously - but really I have no
personal use for the apparent advantages OS X provides, or any other
Apple product) This is especially true for the fact that I cannot afford
to pay a premium on any of their products - I would much rather go with
a cheaper unpopular competitive product. Technology and consumer
devices are expensive and if I can "trim the fat" I will certainly do
so.
I dislike Apple for the fanboy/girls need to act as if Apple is the only
innovative company in the world and that everyone is simply copying
them.
I dislike Apple for their support of DRM.
I dislike Steve Jobs for his "reality-distortion field".
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/reality-distortion-field.html
and finally
I dislike Apple for their fanboy/girls and their need to defend Apple on
every negative comment about Apple or Steve Jobs.
NOTE:
I dislike Microsoft even more and for completely different reasons than
Apple, and I would probably encourage people who have the money to
purchase an Apple computer if they weren't using it to just play games.
I even like OS X! The above reasons are similiar reasons to why I also
hate the whole nVidia vs. ATi fanboyism. I personally use Linux on
commodity PC hardware - but I'm not going to preach to you about it -
especially since I know there's hundreds of other Linux geeks who have
lost touch with reality long ago that feel the need to preach anyway.
So if someone hates company XYZ without stating any reason and are not
on the subject of attacking company XYZ, please just accept it and move
on with your lives.
How's that? :-)
--
Nicholas Bolibruch <nboli@cogeco.ca>