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Yeah, riiiight. How the fuck did I get on Apples email list?
See, here’s the thing. No.
Gates may be selling a half made man in Win8, but he’s not selling you salvation for your soul. I’m boggled by the number of people who, if you suggested there was such a thing as a supreme being, would look at you like you had a 6″ horn growing out of your ear, but will queue up to kneel at the altar of Jobs.
Very early this morning I was watching a TV progam on the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer by MIT, and the clusterfuck it almost was. These fuckers wrote ROM by spooling wire-wrap wire through little ferrite cores. (This came to be called the LOL or “Little Old Lady” method) RAM was another set of ferrite cores with wire.
The boys at MIT were heading off in all directions with this, apparently, until NASA shipped in Bill Tindall. He was apparently the right man for the job. The TV show made mention of his Tindallgrams which I haven’t thought about in years, but apparently they’re all available to see now. Ought to translate the PDF for my Kindle.
This commercial pretty much says it all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5-Prx19ZM
My daughter just got a new i4 a few months ago. I have the GS3.
I am waiting for the mini iPad with wings.
So, some notional people (odd that I never seem to meet them?) think something stupid about Apple?
Apple itself never even approaches that in their marketing (which is all about elegance and ease of use, both of which it delivers)?
So… yeah, you don’t like a stereotype of the Apple Fanboy.
That’s nice, I guess?
(Also, Gates isn’t selling Windows 8 – he’s been divorced from daily operations there for years.
Steve Ballmer’s running the show, God help them.)
And thus my point is proven again.
I recently hopped back on the Apple bandwagon after and almost twenty year hiatus.
I don’t see Apple so much as an altar where one worships, but rather a very comfortable bench under a nice, shady tree, where one can be comfortable.
I have been comfortable and competent in both worlds, but there’s something about Apple that just works.
Of course, I’m typing this out on a MacBook Pro that cost as much as a back seat full of entry level Windows machines.
MC
I’m boggled by the number of people who, if you suggested there was such a thing as a supreme being, would look at you like you had a 6″ horn growing out of your ear, but will queue up to kneel at the altar of Jobs.
This.