XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-16 10:01, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   But you bought it, right?   
      
   So why?   
      
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