Quote: You Do Not Get What You Paid For

Submitted by Jeremy
on June 23, 2008 - 10:35am

"When you buy from Apple, you do not get what you paid for. Instead you get exactly what you got suckered into buying."

Apple .... cant say anything -.-

webserv (not verified)
on
July 28, 2008 - 11:34am

Apple s*** i tryed few times to buy some apple stuff and all i get is Problems
dont work or dont get it, sucks like hell.
why make a Companie like Apple so much Problems i dont now it
can you tell me why its like a fashion companie that get only the money because of
penaltys

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I'm not an Apple fan... but

Golfer (not verified)
on
June 27, 2008 - 2:23am

I'm not an Apple fan... but there market share is increasing... so they must be doing something right.

what they do right is the

Anonymous (not verified)
on
June 30, 2008 - 12:21am

what they do right is the OS. ever since apple went intel, their hardware isn't that special (not to say that i think that going intel is a bad idea). when exclusively running a non-OSX os on an apple, it isn't as good of an investment

Which is amusing...

on
June 30, 2008 - 9:59am

It's amusing you mention their OS as what they do right, since isn't it based pretty heavily on BSD?

Really, it's the GUI and user experience that Apple gets right, and even then, they only get it right for a certain audience.

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OS X is based on BSD, like

Chris Lees (not verified)
on
July 11, 2008 - 7:05am

OS X is based on BSD, like Home Alone 3 is based on the first two movies. Or like how the movie of I, Robot is based on the book. I'd rather control my own computing destiny.

Yeah, I consider the GUI and

Anonymous (not verified)
on
June 30, 2008 - 1:19pm

Yeah, I consider the GUI and user experience an integral part of OSX. As a person that is a big fan of OpenBSD and OS X, i still feel that Apple hardware is not the best choice for running OpenBSD.

Advertising.

Anonymous (not verified)
on
June 27, 2008 - 6:32am

Advertising.

Hm

Steve Jobbers (not verified)
on
June 25, 2008 - 8:10pm

Funny, they're still selling. Must be filling a demand either way.

Er... is it just me, or was

Anonymous (not verified)
on
June 24, 2008 - 1:19pm

Er... is it just me, or was that a complete non-sequitur?

translation:

Anonymous (not verified)
on
June 25, 2008 - 2:19pm

you paid for a camera. you did not get a camera.

So I guess the built-in

Anonymous (not verified)
on
July 3, 2008 - 9:43am

So I guess the built-in camera on a mac is not a UVC camera then? What is it?

He certainly didn't answer

Nony Mouse (not verified)
on
June 24, 2008 - 2:04pm

He certainly didn't answer the question posed directly.

wow

Anonymous (not verified)
on
June 24, 2008 - 12:38pm

not that I think that macs aren't rip offs... but wow, I guess you can't expect to get a reasonable response to a question on openbsd-misc.