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Aug 2001
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
On superficials. On something that "looks cool" despite being an otherwise inferior product. |
I can't think of the last time I've purchased a durable good where "superficials" didn't enter into the equation.
Seriously, why are you harping on this? Do you buy clothes? Do you always buy clothes that are the most practical and durable things available, or do ever buy something just because it looks good but maybe costs a little more?
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:31
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Originally posted by Agathon
Because Apple does it properly. That's the difference. |
No, Apple does it in excess, which angers the more intelligent users who abandon Apple for cheaper, better alternatives. The desktop market, for example.
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Are you deliberately being obtuse? Apple does not hold a monopoly (in the accepted sense, which you seem to be unaware of) in digital music. Nobody does. |
Depends what you mean "accepted sense". Define why they do not own a monopoly if they're building a popular ecosystem and use litigation and threats to keep others out...
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If that happens, then I won't complain. But no one has shown that Apple has pressured anyone to do anything. |
What do you call Apple's comments to Real?
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People are not forced to buy music from Apple's store. They can rip their own or steal it off the internet (as most do). |
This argument wouldn't work in court, you realize...
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Except it wasn't, as todays results have gone a long way in demonstrating. |
Higher than expected (by analysts -- who you know I do not think that competent) doesn't prove it's not overvalued... 
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Of course it isn't. Why should Apple just give the results of its own hard work to a rival company? That's insane. |
What hard work? 
You honestly think setting up a store like iTunes is "hard work"? It's HTML, it's something a group of college students do for a project course.
All of the actual conversion from CD to AAC was done by a contracted firm...
And AAC is Dolby's hard work, and Fairplay wasn't made by Apple either.
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The only people really complaining are trolls like you. Apple owns the HD player market, so this cannot be a real disincentive to people buying their products. |
It may be a small one, especially to Apple's demographic which tends towards the computer-incompetent type. I bet most of them still rip their CDs in MP3s.
Welcome to 1997. 
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Help! Save us from the company with single digit marketshare.
You have no idea of what they will do in the future, and neither do I. So stop this juvenile speculation. |
Apple is trying to take a page out of Microsoft's books, and it's prolonging the life of the iPod/iTunes.
But I don't think Jobs is smart enough to keep going in this direction. The entire business of Apple is based on brainwashing and blindfolding users, relying on psychology fundamentals like knowing most people will blindly try to justify an expensive purchase. If you make things expensive enough, people justify them.
They go for the faux-chic look, bound to draw the attention of art students and trendy yuppies who will proudly display their new Apple products. Apple expects the followers to then mimic the behavior.
I'll give you one thing: Apple's marketing and image department has some brilliant people.
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:31
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Originally posted by Agathon
In any case, by the middle of this year when OS X.4 is released, Windows will be looking even more like the shabby, antiquated, insecure wreckage that it is. |
It's funny, only because MacOS X is the one based on technology decades old, while Windows is the one based on technology originally developed for Windows NT...
And you call Windows antiquated.
I'll tell you this: MacOS X can call itself advanced when drag-and-drop behavior becomes consistent. When it can run on a HUGE plethora of hardware and configurations... When it has true low-latency graphical interfaces and not ridiculous amounts of overhead in simple window drawing. When it can adequately separate running programs from non-running programs on the dock. When it can provide actual textual captions on top of all of the active Windows, making full-screen multi-tasking far more efficient and effective. When it has a useful HAL for game development like DirectX...
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It's worth the price to some people to have an OS that works, that is virus free, that has decent graphics, and is simple and easy to use. That is the Mac OS. |
It's also Windows, provided you don't use Internet Explorer.
Except Windows has better graphics, what with having far better video card drivers and graphics performance. 
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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:31
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You'd think you'd learn by now, but you philosophy types never really did understand what critical thinking is all about. |
I've obviously learned that it's pointless dealing with someone who substitutes speculation and sometimes conspiracy for argument, and who merely repeats the same tired old claims again and again when asked for further reasoning.
It would be interesting if there was any real substantive argument from you, but there almost never is, and if there is, it just gets swamped by the silly stuff you say, and in the end it gets boring having to type out the same responses hundreds of times.
Similarly, it gets boring to try and be fair and open minded in the face of your complete inability to be objective about anything about which anyone disagrees with you. Do you remember the review that I posted where the reviewer said he thought Apple's ipod was still the best, and you spent pages arguing that it said the opposite? In the Asherworld perhaps, but not in the halls of the sane.
Sure, you might provide stuff that looks good to some of the impressionable people on here, but it doesn't wash with me. Most of the time it's mildly irrelevant, other times it's just made up or rumour, like your "itunes spontaneously deletes people's music" thread. Most of the time, it's speculation backed up with prejudice or sociopathy, or both.
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Fve Crathva
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No, I think I misunderstood you. Did you seriously say that doubling a Mac's RAM from 256 MB won't improve performance when running OSX? |
Misunderstanding both ways. I'm sorry, I should have been clearer.
I said that the mac mini with its much faster processor will get better performance with 256, than my old G3 with 512. I've no scientific reasons for saying this, only I happen to have recently used an equivalent to the mac mini with 256 and performance was much better. Not big news, but that's all I meant.
Having said that, doubling the RAM on the G4 will make quite a difference. Depends if you care that much I suppose. |
Ah, I get it. I'm not so sure that's the case though. If I remember correctly, the G4 and G3 both use 166 MHz memory busses, so any memory-bound process will still have to wait the same amount of time.
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Fve Crathva
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I dunno, they're using PC2700, which is still pretty common in cheap machines.
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