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   Snidely to All   
   Re: A computer related question   
   20 Aug 21 17:53:35   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Les Albert asserted that:   
   > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:40:29 -0400, Michael Trew   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I worked for Apple Care tech support for a while.  Even though I had   
   >> never used a Mac or iPhone before (or worked at a call center), they   
   >> hired me.. Lol.  I noticed that iPhone users, at least circa 2015-2016,   
   >> were more like your average miserable angry people, but Mac users were   
   >> typically easy going, wealthy people.  I spoke with lots of interesting   
   >> people, sometimes people that worked for (spokespeople?) for famous   
   >> people.  Book authors, video editors, etc.  At least 5-6 years ago, most   
   >> of them were a whole different class of people.   
   >   
   >   
   > If you never had used a Mac or iPhone before, then how long did it   
   > take you to become knowledgable enough to offer technical support for   
   > those products?   
   >   
      
   The answer is intuitively obvious.   
      
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