Bitmap Frogs said:
I think your intense desire for twisting words into a suitable mac-bashing argument is blinding you. There's plenty people (arguably, most of consumers) who are not enthusiasts yet that doesnt preclude them from owning a wintel pc. In fact, you are implying only non-enthusiasts would own a Mac, ignoring how Mac OSX being a full-blast UNIX compliant OS is more suited for enthusiast use than a mere wintel pc, although for these types a linux (or other unix-like OS like FreeBSD) is probably their first choice. Additionally, many of these non-enthusiasts on wintel do need to pay to get their computers fixed. Again, your wording implies no Mac user can fix problems by himself/herself. Considering the free customer support Apple offers to consumers at their stores, it might be actually cheaper for a non-enthusiast to keep their Mac in shape than their wintel box. There's plenty of people being ripped-off daily by buying shoddy wintel boxes/laptops, but hey they don't know any better. Macs might be expensive, but non-enthusiast consumers generally get in return a better customer experience which is one of the reasons why Apple sales are surging. You might hate-dislike-whatever Apple as much as you want, but the truth is in every customer satisfaction poll out there Macs are usually on the top or near it. Of course it's easier just to say smugs with too much money just buy Apple since that's the official party line but just as Mercedes customers are willing to pay a premium for a better experience, so do many Apple customers. How interesting indeed. |
No, not Mac hatred. Just a snappy comeback to offset your irrational summation that PC entusiasts are wasting their time learning about the expensive machine they operate instead of being illiterate of the technology and paying unwarranted premiums.
If you're going to say something as imbecilic as insiuating that it's a waste of time to save money and become knowledgable then you should expect a strong rebuttal.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
