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   Alan to Joel W. Crump   
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   15 Dec 25 15:15:54   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-15 14:54, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/15/25 5:06 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> 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."   
   >>>   
   >>> Because I'm a Samsung user for my phone (and TV) specifically.  I'm   
   >>> grateful that I don't need Apple.   
   >>   
   >> But your chosen company "gouges" people even more than Apple.   
   >>   
   >> So:   
   >>   
   >> Can you show that Apple is worse than ANY other computer company in   
   >> this regard?   
   >   
   >   
   > Samsung gouges on some items, but they don't control an entire operating   
   > system, Apple's Mac options are for the financially capable market, it's   
   > luxury computer gear basically, not something I can begin to want.   
   But you were the one who chose them as your exemplar of a company doing   
   it better than Apple.   
      
   And you can't find a better example when challenged.   
      
   Got it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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