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Brand loyalty. Why cheer for a given team when you can bandwagon for another and get cheap thrills and smuggery.
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Apple is cool and good. #megainc
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Aug 18, 2017 19:02
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Wirth1000 posted:Leading manufacturing standards and exquisitely designed hardware coupled with hit-and-miss software fornicated by a cultish marketing scheme that Apple just works which is fine to some degree I mean hell here I am typing this post out at work on a MacBook Air from 2013 (Haswell, bitch) and literally not a single god drat issue with it software or hardware wise at all and still runs fine like it did on the first day. Then Steve Jobs died and while the manufacturing standards are still there the software side of things has started to waver and Tim Cooks Apple is not Steve Jobs Apple. So the Hardware is Alonso and the Software is McHonda. Got it.
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I will say their lower end stuff and peripherals are just rear end. I had an entry level Macbook around 2009 and that thing fell apart practically overnight. Having said that I've never managed to get more than three years out of a laptop.
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Aug 18, 2017 21:00
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The MacBook Tis were utter trash. Look at them funny and screen snapped off.
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dentist toy box posted:So the Hardware is Alonso and the Software is McHonda. Got it. No, the hardware is Alonso and the software is Ferrari - widely beloved but fatally flawed.
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Aug 18, 2017 22:39
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Minto Took posted:The MacBook Tis were utter trash. Look at them funny and screen snapped off. So Honda's current F1 offering.
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I use an iPad because I just need something portable to type on the internet with, and watch videos on , with a really great screen, without having to do any of that thinking nonsense.
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1500quidporsche posted:
Well the snap-on truck drives by the shop and has an agreement with the owner where they can just deduct your payment from your paycheck, and this is better because.... This is an actual reason I was told when I worked at a dealership.
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Aug 19, 2017 01:56
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Have you used Snapons at a shop where your job is to use those tools all day long without having issues? It makes more sense there
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Can I suggest apple is way overpriced and iTunes is the worst piece of software ever made?
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Have you used Snapons at a shop where your job is to use those tools all day long without having issues? It makes more sense there I have no issue with shops using them, although to be honest I've used MAC poo poo and some other brand I can't remember as well and the difference is negligible in my view, certainly not worth giving Snap On the massive amount of hype they get. It's mostly the amateur hobbyist like myself that acts like their life has been greatly enhanced by blowing $400 on a set of nut drivers when the set from Canadian tire for $20 will see them through their lives.
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Aug 19, 2017 06:00
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AgentJotun posted:Can I suggest apple is way overpriced and iTunes is the worst piece of software ever made? It's ok if you can only afford bin phones. You don't have to badmouth real hardware for it to be ok.
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AgentJotun posted:Can I suggest apple is way overpriced and iTunes is the worst piece of software ever made? iTunes is indeed hot garbage, but you can pry my 2009 Mac Pro from my cold, dead hands. It was bordering on obsolete when it was new, but goddamn if it isn't still the best piece of Apple hardware still supported (for another few months, lol).
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Aug 19, 2017 12:57
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Apple hardware isn’t overpriced, with a few exceptions. The competition is only cheaper until they actually make something with similar build quality. The HomePod is gonna be real dumb, though.
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Aug 19, 2017 13:02
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wicka posted:Apple hardware isn’t overpriced, with a few exceptions. The competition is only cheaper until they actually make something with similar build quality. The HomePod is gonna be real dumb, though. For £350 For a speaker and god knows how much for all the accessories for the whole system I think I'll just keep on using Bluetooth to connect my iPad to my stereo, and telling my children to do stuff like turn lights off and leave the loving thermostat alone.
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Aug 19, 2017 14:28
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Use the Honda earth car and marketing to teach them about environmentalism
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Aug 19, 2017 14:31
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Surely everyone knows by now that the only way to listen to music is via a Bose system?   
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Aug 19, 2017 15:20
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Bose #Megatone
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I'll just get a lecture about the negative humanitarian impact caused by using rare earth minerals in electric car batteries if I mention F1 in our house at the moment. A V12 F1 car is far more environmentally and humanity friendly than a hybrid road car apparently. It's just that as the bad and catastrophic destruction is happening in the arse end of China the people of California and Sweden can happily ignore it while smugly lecturing normal car owners about the ice caps.
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Aug 19, 2017 15:23
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Are those loving Senna / Brazil Bose?
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Those headphones are awesome though. #megazone
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Aug 19, 2017 15:30
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What is going on here.
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He's having an important business meeting with his helmet
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He looks like child pissed off that his mother made him wear a suit in that second picture so he's going to sit in the corner for the whole wedding listening to music and ignoring everyone to punish her.
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Aug 19, 2017 15:31
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Wirth1000 posted:What is going on here. That's the dressing room for the megazone.
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Norns posted:He's having an important business meeting with his helmet This. But also, this: Brainwrong posted:That's the dressing room for the megazone.
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Aug 19, 2017 15:57
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wicka posted:The best part is that one of those guys PMed me and he immediately figured out how to do exactly what I want, but everyone was too busy crying itt to answer my actual question. It's seriously so good. They legitimately don't want to speak to the fact that the software should be able to do the thing you want it to do and instead are telling you "it's not the app for you, man"
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learnincurve posted:I'll just get a lecture about the negative humanitarian impact caused by using rare earth minerals in electric car batteries if I mention F1 in our house at the moment. A V12 F1 car is far more environmentally and humanity friendly than a hybrid road car apparently. It's just that as the bad and catastrophic destruction is happening in the arse end of China the people of California and Sweden can happily ignore it while smugly lecturing normal car owners about the ice caps. Or lithium mines in Australia/pools in Chile. And really the biggest impact now is on intercontinental shipping. Marine diesel is disgusting compared with what's used in Europe or the US now.
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Let's not forget our old friends the coal powered power stations needed to provide the electricity to charge them.
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Bose sucks sorry lewis
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I actually love Microsoft's build quality on their stuff but it's really that much cheaper than Apple. Google's poo poo is cheap as hell because they build their poo poo with third party crap from ASUS or something. As far as Apple having massive profit margins that's nothing new, I remember a watershed moment in the "what the gently caress is Apple doing" 90s was when the Mac II FX cost, with monitor, $10,000 brand new.
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Wirth1000 posted:What is going on here. He's contemplating the lasting impact of Nico's mind games.
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I have the new iPad the "iPad" and it was literally given away to me by vodaphone with a data only sim as they wanted me to stay on contract - in the past the monthly sim cost went up with a new iPhone/iPad but not this time. I suspect this is the future in the U.K. Make the money on this iHome system (or whatever they called it) and it's apps and accessories but drop or give away the base device.
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Apple would have to charge 2-3 times as much as they do now before I'd give up and switch to Android.
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I miss my $50 Windows Phone which had no apps, but acted as a 4G hotspot with a battery that lasted forever, and I never worried about dropping.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I miss my $50 Windows Phone which had no apps, but acted as a 4G hotspot with a battery that lasted forever, and I never worried about dropping. I had a Lumia 900, it was great. Windows Phone was the only mobile OS anyone has ever made that was actually competitive with iOS from a usability perspective. Sucks that no one made any apps for it. "Hey wicka, wouldn't it be great if someone made a phone based on the Zune?" You're god drat right it'd be great.
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Aug 19, 2017 16:45
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wicka posted:Apple would have to charge 2-3 times as much as they do now before I'd give up and switch to Android. I would be in favour of this if their phones actually lasted 2-3 times longer, but they don't. Quality is okay useful if it translates into longevity.
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1500quidporsche posted:I would be in favour of this if their phones actually lasted 2-3 times longer, but they don't. Quality is okay useful if it translates into longevity. Every phone is woefully outdated before it actually stops working.
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