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   Chris to Andrew   
   Re: Install iOS 17.4.1 now to patch 2 ne   
   30 Apr 24 20:45:45   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   Andrew  wrote:   
   > Jolly Roger wrote on 30 Apr 2024 15:59:55 GMT :   
   >   
   >> On 2024-04-30, Chris  wrote:   
   >>> Andrew  wrote:   
   >>>> Jolly Roger wrote on 30 Apr 2024 00:45:51 GMT :   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>>> However, some do use macOS, but usually only in the marketing   
   >>>>>>> departments where the women (it's almost always women) who do the   
   >>>>>>> graphics learned on the mac and they can't switch to anything else   
   >>>>>>> as they don't like change.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Lol. You're funny for neanderthal.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Trolls are bullies at heart, and their true colors always end up   
   >>>>> oozing out from behind their masks, despite their attempts to hide   
   >>>>> them.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And yet I stated the truth about Linux & Microsoft Windows/Office.   
   >>>>   
   >>> I called you a neanderthal for your misogynistic statements. Not your   
   >>> incorrect "facts".   
   >>   
   >> I'm sure that was just "locker room talk", which we are all supposed to   
   >> ignore.   
   >   
   > Chris wrote:   
   >   
   >> I called you a neanderthal for your misogynistic statements. Not your   
   >> incorrect "facts".   
   >   
   > I have worked in technology for longer than you probably are of age,   
      
   Yeah, I can tell.   
      
   > and   
   > the design teams in the MarComms groups are almost exclusively women.   
   >   
   > In fact, I've never seen a male in any of the Marketing Communications   
   > groups, but I'm sure they exist, just as women sometimes are power pole   
   > linesmen climbing the poles and hoisting up transformers and the like.   
      
   Ask yourself why that may be?   
      
   > In those Marketing Communications groups, they use Corel Draw and PhotoShop   
   > on a Mac, and that's all they know and it's all they ever want to know.   
      
   Why shouldn't they if it works and provides value to the business?   
      
   > While most engineers wouldn't touch the primitive Mac with a ten foot pole,   
      
   Primitive lol. Ask yourself why so many scientists use macs. Plus musicians   
   and film makers. Windows just doesn't cut it.   
      
   > these drawing-related groups revel in their love of every Apple provides.   
   >   
   > If you showed up with a Linux box and said they'd have to use it, they'd   
   > drop dead of heart attacks one by one, the moment they had to type   
   > something instead of pulling down a menu inside of those classic apps.   
      
   What professional level drawing and graphics applications exist on linux?   
      
   > In the corporate world, those drawing-related Mac users are typically far   
   > less educated than the far better educated engineers who are,   
      
   Your implication is misplaced and reflective of your bias to which I refer   
   to my earlier comment.   
      
   > as a result,   
   > mostly on Linux and who mostly use Windows for Microsoft Office.   
      
   On a mac you can do both on one system. That's why I shifted from linux +   
   windows.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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