XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-15 9:49 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>>>> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I see...   
   >   
   > ...so even when other companies charge a lot for upgrades...   
   >   
   > ...it's somehow possible for you to still blame Apple!   
   >   
   > LOLOLOLOLOLOl   
      
   The other companies allow you to upgrade after the fact; they only   
   charge similarly or more if you change the specifications at initial   
   purchase time.   
      
   Can you buy a larger NVMe after you buy the MacBook in your hands? No.   
   Can you add to the amount of RAM? No. Can you switch the NVMe when it   
   reaches its TBW and is about to brick your machine? No.   
      
   The worst part is that I'm saying this as an Apple fan with a few of   
   their products in my home and a strong likelihood that my next machine   
   will be from them. I'm simply being realistic, something that you're   
   incapable of being because your Apple religion requires you to perform   
   taqiyya to defend your gods.   
      
   --   
   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
   Windows is fine.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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