In Virginia, patrons waiting in line to buy county school surplus iBooks for $50 started a riot when the doors opened, with an old man getting trampled, people crushing a baby stroller, and someone trying to run people down with his car. One iBook hopeful admitted that he used his folding chair as a weapon to fight off people who were trying to cut in line. Take a lesson from Steve Jobs, Henrico County: make them a little more expensive, and prevent the bloodshed. (Editor's note for the humor-impaired: no, I don't really think Macs are too expensive. I'm making fun of people who do)
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Member since:2005-06-29
Talk about a troll, you are ridiculous.
You know, I think part of the reason why Mac users get hit so hard with abusive comments is because like you so many of them go looking for it. I for one use non-Apple hardware and I do not pirate software, nor do I participate in frantic brainless acts of violence for the sake of getting discount hardware.
Why don't you stop profiling people based on the hardware they use and open your eyes: Apple users are no more mature or moral than win/lintel users, piracy of Mac software and even Mac OS existed before PearPC or Mac OS X for x86, and many people who own Macs have been cheap as many of you Apple zealots say and bought their hardware from eBay rather than from Apple itself for full price. Having a shiny white box as your computer doesn't put you a cut above everyone else and it doesn't make you more sophistocated; if anything the impression I have from many of you Mac users who are so quick to blame the rest of us for all your problems, is that you are immature and have a serious self esteem problem you so desperately try to take out on the rest of us to make yourself feel better.
Tell me if owning a Mac makes people more mature, moral, and sophistocated, then how do you explain yourself?
Assuming that all software pirates and thugs must be cheap non-Apple users just because you are an Apple user is along the same likes as racism, how low can you get?
Member since:2005-06-29
Oh a -2 score on my post which did not violate the OSNews guidelines in any way, I guess some people didn't like the truth.
It is obvious that the voting system is getting abused; everytime a post about Apple which doesn't involved worshipping the company and/or its users comes out, people vote it down.
First off people, yes there is a serious problem with many pro-Apple posters here claiming in much the same spirit as racism that us non-Apple users are the source of all piracy, violence, etc... If you can't see that it's because of voluntary blindness. Apple users in general are no better than than any other person who has a computer whether it's made by Apple or not.
Secondly quit abusing the voting system, if you don't agree with my post then say so in a reply; by using negative votes on a post which does not violate the OSNews terms you are simply violating those terms yourself, ruining the site for everyone else, and being complete ass holes to the original poster. It's time to grow up kids, if you don't learn how to act like adults you'll just end up causing everyone to lose the ability to post on this site.
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Yea all 12000 of them. No these aren't how Mac users behave; this is typical PC mentality. Cheap bastards aren't used to a good thing... poor suckers.