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Originally Posted by nuTinmuch
Unless you want to game at all!
Or, you know, not murder your wallet for literally shiny white plastic.
I do like Apple stuff, but it is just so overpriced. They are so successful because they advertise their products as fashion items and they capitalize on that sort of mentality. It's just as bad as Alienware or Falcon-NW or any of the specialty PC companies. I mean, I guess you can build your own Hackintosh now... but Windows 7 is awesome, so yeah.
I have a Droid and I love it. I'm not one for tech-hopping though, so I'm unlikely to buy another phone until my contract is up. I just can't see dropping that much coin on a phone that really doesn't do anything more than mine.
Also I don't think I will ever buy an iPhone simply because iTunes might honestly be one of the worst pieces of software ever made. Go use Songbird or even Winamp. Jesus.
Also, Apple's large profitability comes from their domination of the MP3 player market more than their OS.
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No, I don't want to game. I want to edit movies and make music on my computers. And this is coming from somebody who owns two game development studios.
I tend to think that a lot of people who argue and argue that the PC is super fun great are either gamers or people enjoy 'running' a computer in the technical fixing, upgrading and maintaining sense, rather than just turning on and running an application sense.
The closed loop system works fine. It stops people whining when some horrendous nameless chinese video card is jammed into their machine and it *shock* doesn't work because it doesn't like the sound card or the nameless Korean USB 2.0 card sat two slots up. With a PC, I had a text editor program which REFUSED to work because of the soundcard I had installed. The text editor didn't even using the fvcking soundcard. POS.
The only thing I don't like about Apple is its trendiness. I used them because they were industry standard in a lot of areas I work in. They were only ever used by those who worked in print or video or music, but now everyone is buying them just so they look stylish as they **** around online or check their facebook. I don't feel special any more. If this continues, I'm going back to my Amiga.