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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-08-24 15:16, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 8/24/2025 5:34 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> But please elaborate:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What makes Apple's technology so "quirky" in your estimation?   
   >>>   
   >>> It has the potential to be a great Unix platform, but ends up being   
   >>> just a proprietary GUI by dull minds at a cult company, when all is   
   >>> said and done, at exorbitant prices.  It's a money pit, even more   
   >>> than Windows systems are.   
   >> Your claim was that it is "quirky".   
   >>   
   >> Justify that claim.   
   >   
   >   
   > The Apple-centric software *largely* sucks (although selected apps are   
   > great, Microsoft Office and Adobe's stuff are better than on Windows,   
   > imo), the Unix features are incomplete.  It's a total bizarro world to   
   > me, compared to Windows or Linux.   
   You claim it is "quirky".   
      
   None of what you just wrote explains that claim.   
      
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