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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-15 19:15, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/15/25 9:48 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,   
   >>   
   >> Which changes the situation... ...how?   
   >   
   >   
   > Microsoft lets operations in China make PCs like the one I have, it's   
   > not necessarily the official "OEM" experience one gets from Dell and   
   > such, but it means that computers can be sold at competitive prices,   
   > something Apple fails to do altogether.  To be a macOS fan is to be an   
   > elitist, basically.   
   >   
      
   Which didn't answer the question I asked.   
      
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