XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-16 11:55 a.m., Alan wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-16 06:56, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > SOME other companies allow you to upgrade after the fact.   
      
   MOST other companies allow you to upgrade after the fact. Microsoft is   
   the exception.   
      
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   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
   Windows is fine.   
      
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