XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-16 3:25 a.m., Alan wrote:   
   > 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".   
      
   I have to agree that Apple is definitely not garbage at the moment.   
   Nevertheless, the MacBook Air 2017 I purchased recently (and dropped   
   coffee on) was definitely underwhelming.   
      
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