I HATE APPLE.

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Do you hate Apple?

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    Votes: 212 57.9%

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    Votes: 96 26.2%

  • I hate YOU.

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I think my post would be more of a clue to my Macintosh-preference than my signature but there you go.

Still waiting on any conclusive anti-Apple 'propaganda' other than that some people just don't like the irritating adverts or the idiotic evangelists.
 
... The price of MAC's is also a sore spot(to me).
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That's ridiculous; Media Access Control addresses come free with every networking component!

If you meant to refer to Macintoshes, maybe you should shorten the word to "Mac" or "mac", seeing as how the full name is not MACintosh.
 
The propagandists and adverts set the company up to look like a media whore.
And Apple falls for it: look at Steve Job's latest crusade against DRM. Such BS. All it is is media whoring and trying to look "hip". Its disgusting.
-cm
 
You've got to admit that a lot of the Apples claims over the years have been bogus. I'm not quoting word for word but I do remember when Apple the Company and the users ran the argument that the PC based CPU Architecture was rubbish and their CPU's were the reason Apples were the best. 8O 😳

Surelly those people have now got large amounts of mud on there faces. 😳 😳 😳 😳

No mention of that argument in the last year.
 
What's that got to do with the Architecture argument? :?
I'm not saying one's better than the other, I'm not qualified to and won't pretend to be. Apple and users were making that claim.

I've even heard it from Techs that worked on Apples. (Ex brother inlaw for one)

Where were they when Apple anouced that they were switching to a CPU based on the Design they had been rubbishing for over 10 years.
 
I dont hate Mac's, over the years ive owned a mac se, imac (now running ubuntu)and i love my ipod. but dont think im one of those evangelicals, cause im typing this on my main wintel pc.

I think the media is giving so much attention to the Mac now thanks to its wise move of switching to intel processors and the HUGE success of the ipod.

The mainstream media is looking for a story to see if apple can reapeat the success of the ipod in cell phone market, its litigation problems with the iphone, and the whole internet DRM and itunes has the greatest market share of legal music downloading.

Sites like Toms (in my opinion) are regonizing the fact that Apple will be a bigger player thanks to its swicth to Intel and OSX Lepoard, which will have boot camp supported.

This argument has gone on for soooo long, still interesting though, and heres my 2 cents. The Mac was better than PC, a long time ago, like back in the 80's. Now both have advantages, i like the fact that the harware is so closed, it creates a really stable OS, but i like to tinker too, thats why my next laptop will be a MAC and desktop a PC
 
What's that got to do with the Architecture argument? :?
I'm not saying one's better than the other, I'm not qualified to and won't pretend to be. Apple and users were making that claim.

I've even heard it from Techs that worked on Apples. (Ex brother inlaw for one)

Where were they when Apple anouced that they were switching to a CPU based on the Design they had been rubbishing for over 10 years.
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Sad story is they were probably right. Mass production and $ brought AMD and Intel to where they are today. I remember the day where 386's were being fed through punch cards and the little game consoles were running true multi-tasking CPU's. Real popular with European hackers. Probably saved more companies in Europe than off-shoring. I di gress... I saw but can not find in public land, a real good AES authentication algorythm that did a plot on CPU accuracies. Curves were simular across the most common 64s. What was different was the ability to predict that showed as hazing and ghost plots. Can't say more. I do know that fiscaly responsible is not nessesarily in the end user's best interest. So were apple CPUs better than Intel, definately. Are they now? depends but probably, no, simply due to core mfg lag due to slack in demand for verified computability or wht I call data morality is going beyond our purse.
 
The Hardware is okay, the marketing is nonsensical but so is most marketing, in the end it is the Apple Users that get under my skin a little, especially the True Believers.

In my experience the average apple user doesn't know dick about their own machine, OS, or software. Ask a Mac user to just go find a file without opening up the corresponding application and\or project file. This will most likely be beyond the average users skills. In my job I have to instruct Mac Users on Video editing with a FCP system. I've found it impossible to have these cultests keep their own files in their own folders.

"I don't have any problem on my Mac at home." they say. That is because you are a dullard and save everything to the default location that pops up in the save dialog and your mac has every file that you ever created still on the desktop or itunes folder.

Both Mac and Windows OSs are designed to help the enept with basic file management, however most non-mac users evolve enough to take an active roll in the organization of their files. Not so much for most of the Mac users I run into.

Attaching a file to an email must give be a nightmare for these guys.
 
I hate apple witha passion!!!!!!!
but seriously no grudge against any company unles the company is doing something illegal 😉

I was suckered into apple through ipods and have owned two.
I gave one to my sis 30gb video one and bought myself a nano 2gb.
Both are total crap.
After using their product for quite some time, I can honestly say they make inferior products.

I'm done with apple... as soon as my nano breaks my next mp3 player will be non apple :)
 
Do you know how I know you're gay?

You don't like Apple.
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lol, reminds me of that episode of south park.

senator1: 'If you don't vote to goto war, then your gay'

others: 'oh, i am not gay... where going to war'

:lol: :lol:

I don't hate apple, i just like the fact that i can play games and other third party applications on my pc.
 
I hate apples because they are too easy to use. So easy I cant figure them out. I can do a couple of things like see folders but its alien to me.

Now my friend who is a complete dumb A*s with pc's can manover his way around an Apple with out a problem. Go figure.
 
You should keep in mind that in the mid-90s Apple was hated by the press and all you ever heard on the news was that Apple was a dead and dying company....The stock price got to under $.20 cents!!!!

Say what you will about Apple but I personally root for them. I don't own a Mac anymore but spent plenty of years working graphic arts on their machines. They were stable and easy to work on, easy to use and brilliant. They still are.

No, they're not built for tinkering under the hood and overclocking and all that but their purpose is clear - and it works. We're a dying breed you know, the speed of computers is so fast these days that overclocking is almost pointless. The new chips run cooler and take up less energy so cooling is not as much of an issue either.

The days will come when a computer is all one piece, integrated like a toaster and just as disposible. Maybe more like a TV. We'll look back on computers the way old radio enthusiasts used to tinker with their ham radios. Sad but true.

I'm getting off subject here, but basically - you can't fault Apple for making money and coming back from the dead. $.20 stock in mid 90s friends. This has been a company turn around to go down in the history books.
 
Do you know how I know you're gay?

You don't like Apple.
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8O :lol:

What about guys that don't have any Apple products (doesn't matter if he/she like or dislike Apple)....but no...I have one,but a non-significant one.It's Apple Pro Optical Mouse
 
No, they're not built for tinkering under the hood and overclocking and all that but their purpose is clear - and it works. We're a dying breed you know, the speed of computers is so fast these days that overclocking is almost pointless. The new chips run cooler and take up less energy so cooling is not as much of an issue either.
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that would be correct, if everyone was a rich and could afford to buy a new CPU every 6months. Fact is we are not. Overclocking allows you to keep your out dated CPU/component for longer before it gets left behind. plus you can re-use the cooler.
 
Well put! I have family out west and they have the same problem. They all use Macs and they can't figure out how to use them, or any other computer they run into.

I will put in my 2c and say that Mac people are some of the most arrogant people I know. In fact, all of the Mac people I know are on the top of the list (all 5!) . People who use Macs get sold on the BS that comes out of the advertising, and then they spout off about it at every chance they get. Fortunately, those people generally don't know squat about their computers (already noted), and don't really need to, since the computer just does everything for them. This makes it really easy from the tech support side of things, as the most inept computer users are pawned off on the Apple tech support lines, thank goodness. I'm glad they have the patience to take care of their customers, as they do the rest of the IT industry a big favor by taking the worst off their hands.

Thank You Apple!!!
 
I surf porn on my mac because it can't get viruses :)
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Mere technicality. AT&T Unix and it's decendants do not get viruses by definition because viruses were given the nomenclature of altering executables. Unix decendants and MacOSs did not work this way but use alot of support files most functionals like libs still in binary. If you think this allows you to walk through the woods wearing a red cape as protection. I would have to conscienciously remind you that the hood that masks your periphial vision does not make you safe :evil: although it might help so that you don't give off fear scent. Unix derrivations, some, are as dark as the most primevil forest this planet has ever seen. :twisted: Including the predators.[code:1:bf7d9b4961] Boo... [/code:1:bf7d9b4961] 😳

~Well now that I said that... perhaps an inocent line from a well know movie "Dune" would be appropriet. "We have worm sign the likes that god has never seen." 8O
 
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