XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-16 07:01, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   You recently purchased a computer 8 years old, and it was "underwhelming"?   
      
   This surprises you?   
      
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