wanderer wrote:I'm just going to point out that consistently calling a company by a childish name with no irony over and over
again does not make you come across as someone to be taken seriously.
Everybody else does it, for example, M$ plus all the other names I've seen used for Microsoft in this thread alone, or Greedom Science Fiction, and nobody complains about that. Oh yeah, I forgot, there is a double standard here where it's OK to use derogatory name for Microsoft and Freedom Scientific, but it's not Ok to do it to Apple.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
devinprater wrote:Um… All known bugs? Oh, sorry. I guess the inaccessibility of Microsoft Edge is a feature? I suppose the relative inaccessibility of metro apps is a feature? I guess the inability to install Windows (not setting up) is a feature? Wow. I must say, some people are very loyal to their little brands. Hold fast, then, to the grand of sand to which you cling, fore it is all you know. But hope, yes, hope, that a wave doesn’t cary it away.
Yup, you bet, you guys hang on to Apple just as hard as we hang on to Microsoft despite all the accessibility problems with OS X, iOS, and V O that some how never seem to get fixed despite the fact that they've been around for over a year or more.
wanderer wrote:The point being that every company has its faults. If people want to bitch about them as I'm sure we all do now and then, what's the harm?
No harm at all. It's when somebody gbitches about one side, while at the same time acting like their side is blameless in all things, that there's a problem. Evidence, just look at any of Sebby or devinprater's messages.
devinprater wrote:Just because you don't use Metro apps and all doesn't mean it's not there. It most definitely is there, and the bugs you mention are very minor. You can still use your iPhone when this bug happens, or you can use Facetime, Messenger calling, any number of workarounds. But the inaccessibility of Metro apps is inexcusable, and the Microsoft Edge inaccessibility is due to them not starting off in an accessible manner. But please, if you hate your iPhone so much, please get an Android. Maybe you'll be happy with its cheap "opennes." As for me, I'll stay with Apple, who continues to enovate and still accessible at the same time, a feit only seconded, at a long distance, by Google.
A perfect example of devinprater's remark about people hanging on to their little brand, totally blind to that brand's long standing problems. Notice how he makes mountains out of Microsoft's mole hills, but tries to make mole hills out of Apple's mountains? Just as Apple's flaws have work arounds, well so does Microsoft's!
So tell me again what your point was? I don't see any real difference between the two. As bartenders are wont to say, "What's your poison?"
The sad truth is, if Apple hadn't released the iPod when it did, they would be long out of business by now. Remember how Apple had to go to Microsoft for a loan just to have enough cash to avoid closing for good? The only thing that keeps Apple afloat is the success of their iOS devices.