XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:19:06 +1300, Titus G  wrote:   
      
   >On 22/10/25 16:13, Your Name wrote:   
   >much snippage   
   >   
   >> According to Mr Google:   
   >   
   >I was joking previously when I suggested you were sexist.   
   >   
   >> Apple even stupidly left out the floppy drive from their iMac computers   
   >> leaving users now way to transfer files (other than the slow internet or   
   >> then-hugely expensive USB thumb drives) - people had to pay extra to get   
   >> an external floppy drive just to retain functionality of the older Mac   
   >> computers.   
   >   
   >Apple's only reason for existence is to return profits to its owners and   
   >has the same philosophy as the USA insurance-triaged 'health' system: A   
   >patient totally cured is a source of income lost. A perfect product   
   >means no more income from that customer. Do you remember that Apple were   
   >prosecuted for software that caused the need to unnecessarily replace   
   >batteries? Was it Apple selling the thumb drives and external drives   
   >with proprietary plugs? Is Apple stupid because it has less money than Musk?   
      
   That's the best takedown of Modren Medicine I have seen in a long   
   while. As practiced in the USA, that is; if you live somewhere else,   
   YMMV.   
      
   But as others have noted, the proprietary plugs were not a factor.   
   Perhaps you are thinking of IBM in the pre-PC days, when competitors   
   were kept busy matching the new proprietary plugs IBM kept coming up   
   with. Or so I recall having read in the far distant past.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)