XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-16 11:54 a.m., Alan wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   It was underwhelming even by 2017 standards. Apple truly was ripping   
   people off with that piece of crap. 1440x900 in 2017 is unforgivable.   
      
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   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
   Windows is fine.   
      
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