XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-15 19:08, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/15/25 9:46 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> Samsung is a general electronics maker, broader in scope than Apple,   
   >>> it's why their smartphone is the best, they aren't just the club of   
   >>> self-absorbed intellects, they're the device for those in the, real,   
   >>> know.  I would never buy Apple's garbage.   
   >   
   >> But when pressed as to why it's actually supposedly "garbage"...   
   >>   
   >> ...you have ALWAYS failed.   
   >   
   >   
   > It goes back to the Galaxy S3 ad, with the guy saving a spot in line for   
   > his parents to buy the new iPhones, he was the cool rich nerd, the Apple   
   > drones were eating his dust.  Likewise, you eat my Linux and Android dust.   
   Nothing in that in any way supports a claim that Apple's hardware is in   
   any way "garbage".   
      
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