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   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Tom Elam wrote:   
   >> But I do thank you for describing to me how your religion works, as every   
   >> day I read EVERYTHING you write on this newsgroup, and I learn about you.   
   >   
   > LOL! I do not care about Apple as a company. I like their products. Same   
   > for Microsoft and Windows. Same for EGO and their lawn tools, Subaru and   
   > their cars. One company I do almost worship is Cessna. I have flown   
   > their aircraft almost exclusively since 1967.   
   >   
   > Thinking you could depress Apple's stock price by half based on a book   
   > by an unknown author is delusional. If you are as you claim retired and   
   > been haunting CSMA for over a decade, but not written that book, you   
   > likely never will. Anyway, criticism of Apple, it's products and   
   > business practices, is hardly novel. Nor is your commentary herein   
   > original, Don Quixote.   
      
   Hi Tom Elam,   
      
   Thank you for your philosophical words of advice. It seems to me that   
   explaining how Apple's marketing distorts reality for so many people may   
   or may not ever attract public attention the way "Unsafe at Any Speed"   
   did in the 1960s.   
      
   My point of view is that understanding how Apple products works is   
   important because most people seem to have no clue that Apple's stated   
   reasons for why they do things, is never what the real reasons appear to be   
   once we apply a healthy dose of logic to sthe actual results.   
      
   For a simple yet super obvious example, Apple marketing claims to lock us   
   into a vise "for our protection" and yet, there is no added protection.   
      
   Think about that fact. There isn't a security professional on this planet   
   who agrees with Apple marketing propaganda, and yet most people do.   
      
   That's a pretty healthy criticism of Apple's propaganda, is it not?   
      
   Remember, criticism does not have to be novel to be worthwhile as Apple is   
   no more evil than Big Tobacco is. They're just more brilliant. That's all.   
      
   I, for one, appreciate Apple's brilliance in marketing where they can   
   transform even minor incremental updates into huge cultural events.   
      
   Apple's brilliant marketing polishes the mundane until it feels   
   indispensable to people who are susceptible to not questioning why.   
      
   I simply need to document the truth about Apple products. That's all.   
   History is built on people documenting the same patterns of incessant   
   propaganda, until they are impossible to ignore by the intelligentsia.   
      
   If you are comfortable with Apple's practices, that is your prerogative.   
   I am simply different than most people in that it irks me when someone   
   kicks dogs and then tells you to your face the dog deserved to be kicked.   
      
   That's how Apple treats its customers.   
   I simply want to document the evil that is inherent in Apple's propaganda.   
      
   It's not to save me, as I never was confused about why Apple brazenly lies.   
   It's to help others realize the truth about Apple products that drives me.   
      
   You can call that Don Quixote if you like, but every critique looks like   
   windmill-tilting to someone who is already satisfied with propaganda.   
   --   
   To make an Apple device do what it should do is a lesson in humility,   
   perseverance & intellectual understanding that cannot be underestimated.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)