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Question: why does that baggage matter to you (as a user)? Apple makes good products. What do those products do? They enable people (i.e.: you and me) to do gr
by shadowsun7 17y ago
Question: why does that baggage matter to you (as a user)?
Apple makes good products. What do those products do? They enable people (i.e.: you and me) to do great stuff, without getting in the way. Stuff like programming and writing and designing.
An Apple product - to the average end-user - is an abstraction layer to all those other things. If the abstraction layer works, use it. If it doesn't, don't. Baggage has nothing to do with it.
- apphacker 17y agoBecause it shows up on HN more than once a day. Because I use Apple products. Because I create apps. This Satire app rejection made the New York Times It's no longer just an Arrington rant anymore.
- kragen 17y agoBecause buying Apple products is voting for a future in which editorial cartoons are censored by a giant computer company with monopolistic ambitions. Even if you have to live in that future, it would help to know you didn't have a hand in bringing it to pass.
- shadowsun7 17y agoThat's an emotional response as a developer, not a user. Not a logical response. You may dislike what Apple's doing politically, but if you limit yourself to using other, inferior products - well that just doesn't make sense, really.
- Qz 17y ago"What do those products do? They enable people (i.e.: you and me) to do great stuff, without getting in the way. Stuff like programming and writing and designing." I don't know how you can say that with a straight face.