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Originally Posted by GatorB
I wouldn't use an Apple product if you gave one to me for free.
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Somebody DID give us an ipod and we knew better than to use it.
Largely because Apple still thinks it's theirs after you buy it. They
think it's up to them to decide what content is appropriate for you
to see on "their" device, you have to use their software, etc.
Taking the ipod as a simple example of their mindset, with any other
mp3 player, you just plug it and drag and drop. They show up
as a Flash drive, because that's what, they are. With Apple, you
Have to use itunes and now they are making it so itunes
deletes all of your mp3s that you got elsewhere. What the hell
makes them think they have the right to delete my files!?
On the other hand, the OS is designed for more than just
light home use. Windows still shows it's heritage as having been
designed as the most stripped down useless OS ever.
Stripping everything related to security, for example, made sense
when they designed it to run in 1980s homes, running from
floppy disk with no network. That base had come back to haunt
Microsoft and their customers ever since.
Twelve years ago I learned how to get an enterprise class OS on
standard hardware, without some giant company that thinks
they are in charge of my computer. I've bern, living Linux every since.
Linux does a great job for me on my desktop, my laptop, my
DVR, my servers, my router, and even this smart phone I'm
using to write this reply.