home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   comp.sys.mac.advocacy      Steve Jobs fetishistic worship forum      120,746 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 118,767 of 120,746   
   Alan to Joel W. Crump   
   =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IMKjMjIwIOKAmGZvciBhIGN1dC   
   24 Nov 25 11:32:32   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-11-24 00:42, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 11/24/25 1:14 AM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>> In other words - you're paying a lot for the [Apple] software.   
   >>>>>>> That's the only major difference in buying a Mac.  And yet their   
   >>>>>>> software is mediocre!   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Look!   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Another claim you won't substantiate!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That you don't consider macOS mediocre only shows your brain   
   >>>>> damage, Alan.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That you can't articulate HOW it is supposedly "mediocre" shows your   
   >>>> lack of intellectual courage.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is it not self-evident, dude?   
   >>   
   >> No. It is not, "dude".   
   >>   
   >> It is an ASSERTION that you are making without presenting any FACTS.   
   >   
   >   
   > I actually would walk back what I said a bit, there, I think I wrote   
   > that when I was high and drinking yesterday, clearly was carried away.   
   > macOS is not so much mediocre in the way I would've implied there, as it   
   > is quirky, and dependent on expensive hardware, but it's not   
   > unreasonable for a person to prefer it, if they have money to spend on   
   > Apple's devices.   
   And you've now pivoted to "quirky" and will never explain what you mean   
   by that.   
      
   But you being drunk and high is on brand.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca