Why I pay more: The hardware and quality control is still superior and it's easy to maintain the software and hardware....
On 25 February 2011 23:43, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/25/2011 11:08 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > >> On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:55 PM, François Chaplais wrote: >> >> oh, and the new camera on the iPad 2 will see through people's clothes. >>>> >>> Yes, but unfortunately only the front side camera does that, so you'd be >> looking at yourself. >> > > Well; it does, increasingly, look like a case of the Emperor's new clothes; > or, put > it another way; why pay such a lot for Apple products when one can buy > stuff that > does the same for cheaper? As time goes on, and I become more and more > comfortable > with Linux I must say I wonder who is wearing the clothes and who is > strutting down > the main street "in the all-together" crowing like a cock on a dunghill"; > but then that only > really means that I am starting to feel about Apple the way I've always > felt about > Microsoft. I also, blame Apple and Microsoft for stifling RISC OS, which > was, once-upon-a-time, > a better OS than either Apple's or Microsoft's. > > The main thing that annoys me (pace Richard Stallman) is that when I buy an > Apple or Microsoft > product I find myself tied up with EULA's; never having been terribly fond > of bondage . . . :) > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
