XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-12 19:23, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/12/25 8:16 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>> "I want Apple." "You will pay handsomely." "OK, cool, Steve Jobs,   
   >>>>> here's $1400, I have to have a MacBook Pro!"   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It's that "I have to have Apple" mentality that fucks everything   
   >>>>> up, they can turn it into a big game.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Even if all that were true (it's not)...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ...it still isn't "EXTORTION".   
   >>>   
   >>> Sure looks that way to me.   
   >>   
   >> Because you're ignorant.   
   >   
   >   
   > So pay the $400 I guess.   
      
   1. In the upgrade YOU first touted, it was 512GB to 1TB...   
      
   ...and the price for that was $200.   
      
   2. Either way it still doesn't make it "extortion".   
      
   Words have meanings.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>>> The point is, when one is assembling a system, the size of the SSD   
   >>>>> can be literally anything, it's just a part, Apple is a bunch of   
   >>>>> show-off corporate "I can afford this, I'm affluent" bullshit.   
   >>>   
   >>>> "When one is assembling a system".   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Most people don't want to do that.   
   >>>   
   >>> OK, so pay them $400 for a $70 part.  Plus the value of the 256 GB   
   >>> SSD it replaced, in reality, it's extracted from your wallet by   
   >>> Apple's mighty macOS tentacles, they know you won't buy another brand.   
   >   
   >> Your claim was that Apple was worse than other companies in this   
   >> regard, and your given example was Samsung...   
   >>   
   >> ...and Samsung was actually worse.   
   >   
   >   
   > Samsung is just being the copycat.  Apple is the one making extortion   
   > part of the experience, of using their unique software.   
   YOU CHOSE THEM.   
      
   You deliberately compared Apple's price for memory and storage upgrades...   
      
   ...TO SAMSUNG.   
      
   "OK, but do you even look at Apple's scale of high RAM/storage options?   
   It's chilling how corporate the entire experience with Apple honestly   
   is.  I'm grateful to stand as a Samsung user."   
      
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