“I am the first to admit that I hate Apple. I do not need anyone to convince me of that. But I do know when to give credit when credit is due. So after hearing all the rave reviews and great comments about the iPod I started to want one. Then they released the new iPod minis and I wanted one even more. But like I said I hate Apple and didn
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I wish Michael well with all of his Apple products, although I do shudder violently when I think of the $800 “laptop” that he will most likely settle on.
Wow!! Could we have a better poster-child for a switcher than a guy who called himself Michael The Apple-hater???
Funny, people thought that the iPod could never sell period, and now it is selling the Mac and OS X, but the question is, If Apple can’t even fill the orders for G5s now, how can it fill them when 1 million or 2 million people order them. Maybe Apple is better off at 3%. I would love to see every person on the planet with an Apple, but Do we as the Apple faithful really want the other 95 or even 20 percent to use it? Apple signifys the underdog, the innovator, the minority. If Apple become more popular, will Apple still be the Apple I know today? Hopefully so. I know this post is way off topic, but Who else thinks apple should make an awesome wicked game that absolutely ROCKS and comes free on every mac? or atleast an engine, and then release it for free but make the agreement that if you create a game with the engine you must create an OS X native Game along with a Windows version. That would Rock! not specifically for marketshare but for Mindshare, show that the Mac can absolutely run games, especially if the code was nice and lean, designed for iBooks and iMacs, all the way up to PowerMac G5s, the program called iCame or something, and make it super-easy to create an iBook version or a Powermac version, think of it like CoreVideo, but for games!
OFF-TOPIC:
But on the same site, they list programs that don’t run properly with XP:SP2.
That is one long list and this is just the first few days.
MS! MS! MS! What trash to force customers to digest!
OFF-TOPIC:
But on the same site, they list programs that don’t run properly with XP:SP2.
That is one long list and this is just the first few days.
MS! MS! MS! What trash to force customers to digest!
I think he should change his name to Michael “The Grammar Hater”
hehe, you should read some of the comments there. Funny disgruntled abused Wintel users.
Las cucarachas entran, pero no pueden salir, se�or. Que bola de gente mas atrasada. Ojal� y coman de su misma mierda. �Que se cagen en un palo todos los que no les gusta lo que estoy escribiendo!
That article about the apps that don’t work with SP2 is incredible: Microsoft’s own apps, like Office, are included!!
And the comments in the forum that follows are amusing, especially this one:
“This is total shit! This time I seriously am considering going OS X. Have colleagues around with Apple laptops since that Apple OS of theirs got official blessing and with the troubles I – and others – have with Windows, and now this SP2, it starts to be embarrassing to still carry around a PC with XP in meeting rooms. You look like the one too slow to really understand what is going or around you – and you get that disgusting pity looks when the others open their Apple laptops and are ready at once and everyone waits for me and few other guys for XP to come out of hibernation or boot. LOOONNG embarrassing moments with all the giggles “Still not up?”, “Ready?”, “What? still booting?”
LOL, poor bastard. Get a Mac already!
posted by ‘Apple Hater’-Mike two weeks ago; re: Sony whatever player vs iPod (Mossberg review):
I like the design. I don’t mind converting files to atract. Known Sony to be a trustworthy brand never had a problem with it.
Not saying that the iPod would beat the Sony walkman in other reviews. Just saying Mossberg is an idiot. Because I my self like the iPod but its just a trust in brand that I have and want the sony
Wow…big change of opinion, all it took was using the iPod
i actually read this the other day, and loved it.. the part where he’s trying to look around the ipod for a volume knob and then uses the scrollwheel..
everyone looooves adjusting the volume on an iPod.. the first time i did it, i found it so OBVIOUS.. so intuitive… IF youre listening to a song.. what’s the one thing, the ONLY thing you want to affect.. THE VOLUME!
Brilliant, perfectly designed..
PS. If you’re a switcher/adder.. don’t get a powerbook yet.. those things are way too powerful.. get an iBook.. and enjoy your 1400-1600 beauty
Yes, the iBook is a better deal and I am already outgrowing mine but it as done superbly well for my powerusing.
If you are a poweruser….get the Powerbook.
tclash is right, he definitely hates grammar more than Apple.
This is very cool… I moved to the States a couple of years ago, and I was already a MAC user and fanatic. All my friends here in America were on PC, and I was just seen as a crazy lunatic with my white iBook. In the passed year, all my friends switched to MAC, I mean, all of them, and I have a couple of friends, I would say! Seeing me being happy in front of my computer was just something that my friends hadn’t seen for a while. The same friends that used to ask me why I was using MACs are now reading MacDailyNews everyday, a couple of times a day! The Halo effect is working… From the iPod and from MAC users!
Here’s what other users say about iPod.
http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/more/mac_poll_how_many_songs_on_your_ipod_legal_not_legal/
I’m impressed at how Apple has transferred the “Mac experience” to the iPod.
Most Apple haters never even used a Mac before. They hate Apple because it’s the popular thing to do, because they believe in the myths, or because of elitism (real men/IT/geeks must use real [=complex] computers).
bingo. they are just haters, plain and simple.
Cucaracha google translation: The cockroaches enter, but they cannot leave, Sir. That ball of slow people but. Hopefully and they eat of its same excrement. That those are cagen in a wood all that they do not like what I am writing!
Hey Apple Hater, you said: “But I do know when to give credit when credit is due.” No you don’t.
You should give Apple credit for more than just the iPod. You should be down on your knees thanking Apple everyday for all the innovation in the computer industry. Because without Apple I shutter to think where we would be today.
Innovation begins and ends at Apple!
And I shudder, as well.
It’s always nice to see when someone has awakened to “enlightenment”. Welcome to the club of “those of us who prefer quality over crap” club.
Us “older” folks (30+) have seen the past 15 to 20 years of various electronic consumer products become low-end because..well, American tastes have become low-end. If you demand quality…you will live quality and it is worth paying for it!! You will be happy for much longer time and will appreciate it in the end.
I currently own a 30+year old “Electrolux” vacuum. It works because companies back in the day built something you can pass down to your kids! That was the mentality. I think Apple does aspire for that..every Apple I have owned has last me minimum…4 years on each unit…but growth in programming knowledge is growng so of course the hardware has evolved also. I still have a Mac from 1986 that still works fine!. However, a vacuum is just a vacuum..it does only one thing..mine happens to do it very well!
You get what you pay for.
Server is farked!
I’m amazed by the WinDOS people who use Word, Excel etc. that don’t even know there is Office for Mac.
I bought my 15″ PB after my iPod, but had lusted after Apple’s machines for years. My iPod purchase motivated me to splurge for the aluminum big toy sooner. Word to A.H., the iPod isn’t a Mac running OS X.
The thing that sold me about the value of the iPod were the hundreds of positive reviews. The thing that sold me on my PB were Mac users saying how much they loved their computer. Now I understand why they said what they did. I guess A.H. has a bit of research to take care of before buying his new Mac.
The iPod was meant to be a PDA. Want local movie showtimes on your iPod?
Check out http://homepage.mac.com/mrcurley/mindsafe
It takes showtimes for the next ten days for your zip code and puts them in your notes folder on your iPod.