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From: noone@nowhere.com
On 23/10/25 04:28, Paul S Person wrote:
> 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.
My recollection is of having read in the far distant past that it was
Apple that used non standard interfaces/plugs. Maybe it was only their
phones?
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