XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-09 16:19, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/9/25 6:32 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > Jobs clearly envisioned the Satanic plot by Apple to sell the Pocket and   
   > whatnot, they would be the anti-computer.  The people like you are   
   > supporting it because of your quirks that make you prefer their software.   
   >   
      
   You're delusional.   
      
   Selling a product that only some people will want--that they might want   
   it for status...   
      
   ...that's a nothing-burger.   
      
   Apple is successful because the computing products they make appeal to   
   many people so much that they're will to buy them even at higher prices.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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