“They’re a dedicated lot, these Apple people. The first pulled up chairs about 11:30 p.m. Friday. More followed soon after midnight. By 10 a.m. Saturday, the line stretched for a block and a half. What could possibly draw a crowd of 500 or more Apple Computer geeks to the Country Club Plaza so early on a Saturday? That was the question of the morning,” David Hayes reports for The Kansas City Star.
“‘What’s going on?’ passers-by on their way to the Plaza Art Fair asked. ‘Are they giving away computers?’ No, they were told. ‘They’re opening the new Apple Store today.’ ‘Oh, OK,’ was the often confused response. You have to be an Apple person to understand… Officially, the Plaza store is one of 25 that Apple is opening this year. Apple President Steve Jobs announced the expansion in May, saying he wanted to
I guess I’m just tired of hearing things are “good enough” whenever we ham-string ourselves with “not that good at all”.
Maybe your right and it’s just me.
Although I still think my way is better: Create a better product and reap the reward.
Your way seems to be a compromise: Create an inferior, flawed product but make a buck off of those it does a disservice to.
I subscribe to the idea that compromise is inherently wrong when one option is fundamentally good and the other bad (in this case making money on a good product and leaving plenty of minds and hands to produce more good products or making a flawed product and engaging those same minds and hands in “dike-leak abatement planning and execution”.
It seems such a waste, compromise between good and bad. If you’ve never read that in a compromise between good and evil, only evil profits, then I would refer you to Ms. Rand’s wonderful book. Read that then tell me what you wrote is a good way to look at things.
If you’ve read it already, maybe you could read it again (this time some of it might stick).
You seem to imply that all of us Mac users are socialists. Trust me, we aren’t. You claim to be a capitalist, yet what you seem to champion isn’t capitalism, it’s greed.
Greed can exist in any system including those that aren’t based on profit motive (just ask the people of the Soviet Union, Iraq, or any other evil dictatorship where people have been bound by greedy tyrants who “made the trains run on time”). People had jobs running those trains, so tyranny is acceptable to you?
Flawed systems are flawed no matter what type of system we’re talking about. A corrupt state that enslaves its people, or a corrupt company that ensnares its customers (remember you said they did it on purpose, not me). I will not accept your excuse for their existence.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking no conservative capitalists would use a Mac, after all we know a good thing when we see it.
~M
Man does it feel good to get that off my chest.
My apologies to the regulars here for the long rant.
Thanks for the time and space.
~M
MacTroller,
It’s ok, you can quit trying to find the book.
Most people here know I’m talking about “Atlas Shrugged”, by Ayn Rand.
Read it and it just might help you.
~M
PS. I know, don’t tell me, you already knew the book. You already read the book, right?
Sure you did. You can probably even prove it with quotes (since you had all day to get the Cliff’s Notes). We know you weren’t busy at work all day since your rich and once you get a lot of money, you don’t want to do much of anything.
Like “Think Different”, evidently.
Yea, MDN is good for a occasional rant and playing the devils advocate.
God knows they encourage it.
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