XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-09 12:58, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/9/25 3:13 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>>>> https://san.com/cc/apples-230-iphone-pocket- taps- into-a-   
   >>>>>>>>> bigger- story-on-fashion-functionality/   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> This site literally says up top, "Unbiased. Straight facts."   
   >>>>>>>>> Wow. You are being programmed to wear a stocking with your   
   >>>>>>>>> phone in it. By the masterminds at Apple.  My God.   
   >>>>>>>> Wow. A website writes some text and that makes it true?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> You don't see?  Apple paid "san.com" to promote their gear, with   
   >>>>>>> a cute story on the Web.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Really? Do you know that's what happened?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yeah, I know that's what happened, Alan, come the fuck on.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Do you actually believe the bullshit you spout?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> Did you speak to someone at san.com...someone at Apple/   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Read between the lines just a little bit, dude.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   Dumbass Apple fans will be influenced to make a purchase.  Like   
   >>>>>>> taking candy from a baby.   
   >>>>>> And yet, the counter example of the poor sales of the iPhone Air   
   >>>>>> contradict that.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Not really, the Air is just a device that Apple produces because   
   >>>>> it's obligated to pretend that there's a competitively priced   
   >>>>> segment in their wares, they probably don't worry about how   
   >>>>> successful it is.   
   >>>   
   >>>> The point is that you keep claiming that Apple users are so "brain   
   >>>> damaged" that they'll buy anything Apple sells.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The poor sales of the iPhone Air contradicts that.   
   >>>   
   >>> You seem to think Apple is just a useful company that happened to   
   >>> have come along.  Unfortunately, straight out of Satan's mouth.   
   >>   
   >> What do you even mean by that?   
   >   
   >   
   > I always have to remind myself that Apple does un-cripple itself in one   
   > way, which is that preference in computing devices is personal, and I'm   
   > only commenting on the harsh reality of price points, you are "one of   
   > them" but I don't deny that it functions as a device.   
   >   
      
   Still have not a clue what you're getting at by "just a useful company   
   that happened to have come along".   
      
   What do you mean by that?   
      
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