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To: GraceZ who wrote (120830)	5/5/2008 4:25:53 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Yeah, that's one that I've avoided shorting and flip long from time to time. I agree it's kinda cultish. I think the Ipod must play subliminal messages looping "buy AAPL...."<G>

To: GraceZ who wrote (120830)	5/21/2008 5:01:01 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 306849

I hate that company because more than anything my clients are mesmerized into paying up the whazoo for their products. that seems like something they will be less inclined to do in a recession. your complaints about Apple are very simplistic and typical of a certain type of penny-pinching PC user. you don't really understand their market, and you don't really understand their products. i know you think you understand because you used Photoshop on a G5 a few times, but you don't. individual applications are just the tip of the iceberg nowadays. if you have to administer other users, it is a huge pain in the ass on PCs due to all the required antivirus, antispyware, and firewall software installation and maintenance requirements. if you use a PC on your own and you are used to this crap, it may seem like no big deal. but it is a big deal to the clueless user, and if you have to administer their machine, it becomes a big deal for you. to me the value of Macs increases considerably the more you integrate them and other Apple products. e.g., Time Capsule serves as an 802.11n base station and offers on the fly wireless backup to connected devices. think about it: you can back up your entire notebook to a remote HDD without ever physically connecting it. and any further changes to your notebook HDD will be backed up hourly when you are simply at your house. a reality in today's Mac world, a fantasy in the Windows world. to my knowledge there is nothing like it in the PC world, certainly nothing as painless to set up and operate. another example is the synchronization of Mac's native apps like Mail, Address Book, Calendar, browser bookmarks, data, etc. across multiple systems using .Mac. i believe the closest thing to this in the PC world is Exchange Server. how many home Windows users implement Exchange Server? what are the annual operating costs of Exchange Server, including paying the IT guys to set it up and keep it going, not to mention buying and running the physical server? with .Mac you can run the whole thing for $99 for five users, and that gives you like 10GB of storage as well, which can be sync'd along with all the other stuff you can't sync on a PC. and for those who like to get under the hood... if you are sure your head will not explode by seeing all the stuff you can do on a Mac and not on a PC, check out this series on Quicksilver: lifehacker.com lifehacker.com lifehacker.com as Walt Mossberg has pointed out repeatedly, PCs are designed for large corporations with IT departments which can implement and administer them. Apple handles a lot of the IT department work for end users.