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2016-09-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by charger 2016-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Screw Apple. The arrogant asshats once again decide what you need or will be allowed to use. The only reason I've got an iPhone is because I got one for Christmas almost 5 years ago. That one is still working. Come replacement time I'm going Android

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-09-26 06:02|| 2016-09-26 06:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Apple computers seem to be the computer of choice of Hollywood, the MSM, and lefties everywhere. I used to buy them for business and personal use long ago. They are too expensive and the software I was running at the time was not written for the Mac. One also had to put up with the corporate arrogance too.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-26 09:19|| 2016-09-26 09:19|| Front Page Top

#3 According to TV and movies, all businesses use Apples. In my over 30 years of working, I've only seen PCs with Windows and lately, Linux.

Posted by Uloluper McGurque7123 2016-09-26 09:54|| 2016-09-26 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Wasn't there a big announcement about the White House switching over to Apple after Obumbles was elected?

Tells you all you need to know.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-09-26 10:59|| 2016-09-26 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I might have mentioned this one before, but back in my software engineering days, I was in Cambridge (you know where this is going already) on an interview. It was going fairly well until he asked his last question - 'are you morally opposed to coding on the Mac platform?' I gave him the old Harold Ramis 'No, but I'm willing to learn', but it took all of my willpower not to reach across that desk and punch his lights out.

Posted by Raj 2016-09-26 11:01|| 2016-09-26 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Apple software is based on UNIX and thus potentially very robust and secure if folks know how to set it up. Go to any creative business (creative as in graphic design and advertising or Hollywood) and you'll find Macs everywhere. I'm not sure if Macs still have any kind of advantage to those fields but they gained that foothold long ago and have kept it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-26 12:07|| 2016-09-26 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Macs still have an advantage in those fields, big time!

Posted by 746 2016-09-26 12:30|| 2016-09-26 12:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Yep. My professional lighting designer son comments on the superior software available for Apple in the design area, though, he has seen similar stuff on PCs recently.

Posted by AlanC 2016-09-26 13:09|| 2016-09-26 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't have a floppy either.:(

Posted by Shipman 2016-09-26 13:48|| 2016-09-26 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 My next phones gonna be a Samsung, they're a blast.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-09-26 16:30|| 2016-09-26 16:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Go to your room, Snowy.

Posted by Pappy 2016-09-26 20:29|| 2016-09-26 20:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Dunno about superior software, but the Unix underpinnings make them a nice compromise--the pretty stuff for presentations works cleanly, and so does smooth interaction with the Linux workhorses. Some folks do analysis on Macs (for small datasets). The advantage to Linux on the laptops is that you can reconfigure what you please, and lots of folks do.

Posted by james 2016-09-26 21:33|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2016-09-26 21:33|| Front Page Top

#13 My main workstation and all my servers are Linux. I use a Mac Air, an iPhone, and an iPad to communicate with the FOSS/Libre business community and also to phone, browse the web, read, and view YouTube and Netflix. It's all seamless. I also have a new Windows 10 laptop. It's a pain in the tail, but you can't send an invoice to Microsoft except with a Windows computer. Also three Kindles. Everything works well, except the Windows box, which is constantly fighting me and often has a dead battery when I open the lid, despite my best efforts with the energy dialog.

Posted by KBK 2016-09-26 23:59|| 2016-09-26 23:59|| Front Page Top

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