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Fools and money I suspect.
It's the dummies wot buys 'em wot gives the profit, Guv !Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
Well, if it is good enough for the likes of Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson......Quote:
Originally Posted by taxexile
And Buzz Aldrin
And David Gilmour.
And Neil Young.
And Samuel L. Jackson.
And Clint Eastwood.
All fools?
Rather think I've made my point.
I think that you are not quite "right in the head". Stick to sausages.Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
What is this obsession you have with sausages?
Spot the professional software engineer amongst that lot....Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
Image conscious luvvies.Quote:
Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson.
Senile yanks needing drool proof keyboards.Quote:
Buzz Aldrin, Clint Eastwood
Were probably gifted their computers by Apple Inc.Quote:
Neil Young, David Gilmour,
Stole his.Quote:
Samuel L. Jackson.
And Steve Wozniak.
And Nick Park.
And Matt Groening.
And Eric Clapton.
And Fred Brooks - Troy should know of him, being a whizzo computer person 'n all.
indeed, milking money by selling underspecs machines to gullible fools like yourself :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
I walked outside Gulliver's just three days ago and was determined not to enter because of the commotion you caused there with your sausages. Some farangs know how to behave properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
A quip or going senile...Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
I did like his comments about good software designers being rewarded...
....and Brooks' law.
And Gabriel Garcia Marquez did. Butterfly will have to look him up.
TheGent, you need to stop being Thai, just go for the iPad, the perfect machine for seniors like yourself
& Somchaina sitting at Starbuks doing the Icebucket Challenge...
They buy very very cheap and sell very very expensive - thats how. The same way that the average market trader selling crap has a pocket full of cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
^
So that's what CMN's doing these days.
Nevermind. Even Ikea can show you how advertising to the retarded can sell products.
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Steve Jobs, like Jesus, was a con artist, always wasQuote:
Originally Posted by pseudolusThey buy very very cheap and sell very very expensive - thats how. The same way that the average market trader selling crap has a pocket full of cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
distributing computing to the masses, like jesus did with bread
Really don't think so. An apt description of someone like say Alan Sugar (with his Amstrad empire back in the 70's/80's) perhaps, but Jobs was much more than that. He bound together innovative hardware with in-house software, so yes, it was 'straight out of the box/plug in and go' computing, but without comparable equivalents. I don't believe that there is a major electronics manufacturer anywhere that doesn't centre it's production in somewhere like China or similar. Costs of production are always geared to volume, so if Apple's per build unit costs are less than competitors, obviously their margins are going to be higher.Quote:
Originally Posted by ButterflySteve Jobs, like Jesus, was a con artist, always wasQuote:
Originally Posted by pseudolusThey buy very very cheap and sell very very expensive - thats how. The same way that the average market trader selling crap has a pocket full of cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
distributing computing to the masses, like jesus did with bread
Where Apple have been particularly good is sustaining their brand identity and public belief in the quality of their products. Sony enjoyed a similar reputation for many years, but they became complacent, and now are struggling in many areas of their catalogue, having been overtaken by principally Korean competitors.
Well said, PAG. The problem is, these days inverse snobbery is rife and it's quite fashionable, particularly among frazzled geeks, the stupid and Belgians, to poo poo success and quality if it doesn't fit in with their narrow outlooks.
Ah well.
Good point ^ I had a lovely Sony camera made in Japan and later a crap one from China
You repeat yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
Charles Baudelaire 1864Quote:
“All the Belgians, without exception, have empty cranium”.
so what you are saying is that you are buying Apple because it's successful ? oh God, help us :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
what kind of mactard logic is that ? worse than a Thai bargirl, that's for sure :rofl:
no doubt that Jobs was able to "synthesize" and package great toys with a unique vision. The first Apple PC was really revolutionary and something to have. Everything started with him, and the rest is history. He is a legend, and we can't deny that.Quote:
Originally Posted by PAG
My problem with Jobs is in the last 10 years, simply repackaging crap and making Apple some kind of religious cult for senile retards like TheGent. I guess, you can't be revolutionary all your life.
aka brainwashing and heavy sophisticated marketing, or propagandaQuote:
Originally Posted by PAG
I agree re Sony, but they are looking to up their game again. My phone is great and it's Sony (made in China...). :)Quote:
Originally Posted by nigelandjan
:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by quimbian corholla
Come on thegent, buy buy, buy!!!
BTW, I've looked through this iApple shite (for the missus, not me), and a basic iApple mac mini for 19,900 with a decent 7 or 8k large screen seems the way to go, imho. You'll still be paying extra for various connections like an HDMi out, etc - which is why I'll be buying a next generation ASUS 13 inch laptop, fan free, for the missus...
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I think thegent should get himself a Dell M4800 with the top end display and 32GB RAM.
It wiil be great for his new photo/video editing hobby and he should be able to knock up some cool movies for us all to enjoy...in a jiffy.
Hauling the machine from room to room should suffice for his daily exercise routine.
It will also dry the wife's fingernails faster than it takes him to get thrown out of Gullivers.
I'll be willing to take it off your hands for a small fee when you decide to upgrade next year.
Betty, why would I wish to buy an Apple copy which runs Windows shit?
You folk continually miss the point. I wish to operate a computer on the Apple system OS and it is natural, therefore, to procure an Apple computer product. I don't mind this since their products seem to be the best in the business.
That a significant proportion of the thread contributors, including a deranged Belgian neurotic, are dead set against Apple simply confirms my belief that I am right.
Not sure why you have to pay extra for an hdmi out Betty ?
No, all I was trying to say, and by God talking to you continental wallahs can be hard work, is that because Apple make quality products aimed at we perspicacious, discerning folk they have become very successful. I wouldn't expect you to comprehend this too well, you being a Belgian 'n all. Only the stupid know the cost of everything but the value of nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterflyso what you are saying is that you are buying Apple because it's successful ? oh God, help us :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
what kind of mactard logic is that ? worse than a Thai bargirl, that's for sure :rofl:
I recognise worth when I see it and Apple seems very good value.