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In Reply to: RE: Summary of "snarky" debate posted by Tony Lauck on January 17, 2015 at 16:46:54
3. Apple continues to follow Job's business strategy of locking in their customers and then exploiting them.No one is forcing anyone to buy Apple products but they must be doing something right having the highest market cap of any public company in the world along with the highest brand value. Fact. I guess success makes them a bad guy and a target. To be expected.
And if you're following Apple at all you'll see that the company isn't as locked into Job's old vision as it used to be.
It's going to be fun watching "Apple Pay" vs MCX "CurrentC". Which evil will win? ;-)
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"...they must be doing something right having the highest market cap of any public company in the world along with the highest brand value."
"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Do you really expect gramps and gramma to be conversant with LINUX systems of the type that you use? The reason Apple has triumphed in the consumer market is because all kinds of people can actually use Apple products (imagine!).
This forum is about computer audio. I would assume that everyone here has some competence in computers. For reading the posts, most people claim to have this ability.
I run Linux headless on embedded systems. I use Windows 7 and 8.1 for day to day use because that's the way my systems are set up. (Depends on paid applications, among other things.) But I could run Linux perfectly well for office tasks, since the open source office applications that I use on Windows also run on Linux. It took some time for me to be come sufficiently familiar with Linux to be able to do system management to my satisfaction.
The majority of Gramps and Grammas that I use Windows. However, all the people that I am friends with are pretty smart. I don't hang out with fools. So perhaps you are right. I don't personally know any fools who are supporting Apple's market cap. I've been around the computer industry for 50 years, and I've seen a lot of companies rise and fall.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Tony whether you realize it or not there are many technical professionals who CHOOSE to use Mac as I do. I have a couple decades experience on UNIX as well as DOS/Windows since the beginning of the PC. Mac OS is breath for fresh air for me.
I made the switch from Windoze to Mac about 7 years ago. Linux is still not ready for prime time IMHO as a desktop environment (although great for the datacenter) and many open source applications are quite crippled. I know, having used OpenOffice and LibreOffice for a few years. MS Word, PPT, Excel even on Mac is far superior and more stable than the open source alternatives.
My only regret is not making the transition to Mac OS sooner. And when absolutely necessary, I can run Windoze just fine on my Mac.... as well as Linux, Solaris, etc.
So anyone who uses Apple equipment is a fool?
BTW, although I've used Macs since they first came out in the 80's, I've also used Windoze computers at work during my 26 years working for a couple of large financial institutions. I've also run LINUX on an iMac. Personally, I would never buy PC's running Windoze for myself, unless I didn't have any other choice. YMMV and all that.
You know, you are very bright in some ways (and I tip my hat to your engineering knowledge), but you have this inflexible, doctrinaire attitude on a number of subjects that's completely unjustified IMHO. You say that the MAJORITY of oldsters you know run Windoze. So are the others fools?
How about we stop with the Mac vs Windows debate..this is a Pono thread..specific to the music store..NOT the player.
A number of us can't help ourselves however. ;-)
"So anyone who uses Apple equipment is a fool?"
No, anyone who is not smart enough to use Windows systems after making a reasonable effort is a fool. Also, anyone who is unwilling to try to learn something new has passed his or her "use by date".
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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