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   Boron Elgar  wrote in   
      
   > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 06:02:23 -0700 (PDT), Roger House   
   >   
   >>One of my favorite movies is the Sandra Bullock called The Net.   
   >>Although I don't remember if I've read the whole thing, I have read   
   >>some of Roger Ebert's review of it.  At one point in his review, he   
   >>wrote the following, and I'm doing a cut and paste thing here.   
   >>   
   >>"It's a revealing detail that she uses Macs (which for me means she   
   >>loves computers instead of merely working with them)."   
   >>   
   >>Here's my question, if anyone has an idea.  What do you think he   
   >>means/meant by the part that is in parenthesis?  Thank you.   
   >   
   > The Net is from 1995, so Ebert's context is within those days when   
   > Apple was even more cultish than it is now, but before Jobs came back   
   > and built it all into a behemoth.   
      
   It's sort of like the iPhone v. Android phone divide, especially the way   
   it was a decade ago. Nowadays iPhones are so common, and some Android   
   phones have closed the gap in terms of styling and functionality, that   
   Apple is no longer such a marker of default coolness over drudgery.   
      
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