THE TELLING!

[Covarr]

I use an iPhone 3G. I'm no Apple hater.

In the world of computing, the only company really worth hating is Adobe.

[Tekkie.X]

My distaste for Apple isn't so much for the products, it's more for the idiots that use them because they're shiny, I think I posted about it here before but I told a guy that only used Apple stuff because it's what all the cool kids do, to kill himself because he didn't know the first thing about well, pretty much anything really.


I know a few guys that prefer OSX since that what they used in school or for video editing but I know far more who can't actually explain why.

[Kudistos Megistos]

My distaste for Apple isn't so much for the products, it's more for the idiots that use them because they're shiny, I think I posted about it here before but I told a guy that only used Apple stuff because it's what all the cool kids do, to kill himself because he didn't know the first thing about well, pretty much anything really.

That, and the company's business practices/advertising are the reason for 90% of Apple hate. Mind you, the products are becoming more rageworthy over time, too.

In the world of computing, the only company really worth hating is Adobe.

Do you mind saying why? If it's the pricing, you have no reason to single them out. For the price of certain other pieces of professional-grade software, such as Maya, Avid and Wolfram Mathematica, you cam buy the whole CS5 Master Collection.

If it's Flash, then you have a partial argument. However, rather than hating Adobe, your energy would be better spent telling the FOSStards at Firefox, Chrome and Opera to allow users to use their h.264 codecs; at the moment, there's no viable alternative to Flash.

The only really rageworthy thing they do is try to sneak a trial copy of McAfee in with their downloads. Cunts.

EDIT: wow, the forum censors mild swear words but doesn't censor that?

[Vgr]

I don't hate Apple products. I think these are great. BTW, do you know why this is not an entire apple? The creator was gay and, because he had enough, he suicided by eating an apple with poison in it. This is how it came.

[Bosola]

The creator was gay and, because he had enough, he suicided by eating an apple with poison in it. This is how it came.

That... that doesn't even make sense.

Anyway, my attitude to Apple, the iMaxiPad, Facebook and the like is spurred by two things:

1. Their fans are smug gits, myopic enough to believe non-users couldn't possibly have legitimate reasons for choosing alternatives / electing not to participate
2. Fear of a 'walled garden' internet, where what are basic tasks in the modern world (sharing information over the net) are subject to an Apple tax. Where a single company determines the data we can and cannot access. Where political pressure groups and interested parties might, through influencing / threatening this single company, seal off portions of the internet as they so choose. A world where goal-focused apps, that simply parse our end desires, rob us of the ability to research, explore, and play in the internet. A world where AOL was never slain, where open source users are f*cked, and where providers have leverage on any data we own.

Point 1 is still important, though.

[Covarr]

In the world of computing, the only company really worth hating is Adobe.

Do you mind saying why? If it's the pricing, you have no reason to single them out. For the price of certain other pieces of professional-grade software, such as Maya, Avid and Wolfram Mathematica, you cam buy the whole CS5 Master Collection.

If it's Flash, then you have a partial argument. However, rather than hating Adobe, your energy would be better spent telling the FOSStards at Firefox, Chrome and Opera to allow users to use their h.264 codecs; at the moment, there's no viable alternative to Flash.

The only really rageworthy thing they do is try to sneak a trial copy of McAfee in with their downloads. Cunts.

EDIT: wow, the forum censors mild swear words but doesn't censor that?

A few reasons. First, their software is massively bloated, often for stupid reasons (they can't use system-native GUI tools for example, they make their own instead). Secondly, the price (specifically of Flash). It used to be affordable for home users, but literally as soon as Adobe bought Macromedia, they raised the price just because they could, before they even had a new version out with any added features. It was a dick move, and a slap in the face of consumers. It just so happens that there was a huge drop in things like flash games and cartoons on newgrounds about when this happened, and that was certainly no coincidence. They're basically charging a "you have no other choice" premium, and that genuinely pisses me off.

And then there's their insistence on pushing pdf as a web format. NO IT FUCKING ISN'T, IT WAS DESIGNED FOR PRINTING, IT SUCKS FOR EVERYTHING ELSE. Adobe Reader, in spite of having very little it needs to do, manages to be far more bloated and resource sucking than most of their high-end creation software, nag for updates for every language in the world on a near-daily basis, and really has no business being used anyway.

I think as a whole, my problem with Adobe is their attitude. They spit in the face of consumers, but since they control a number of industry standards, everybody else has no option but to take it.

[Kudistos Megistos]

1. Their fans are smug gits, myopic enough to believe non-users couldn't possibly have legitimate reasons for choosing alternatives / electing not to participate

lol u jelly poorfag? My shiny new macbook air gets me all the b*tches down at starbucks and its better for creative stuff and it's graphics cards are more efficient because its unix-based and it doesnt get viruses. who cares if it cant play games nerd lol only virgins do that sh*t. lol enjoy you're dell neckbeard u just mad cos u cant afford a mac cos u have no job have fun with you are viruses.

I think as a whole, my problem with Adobe is their attitude. They spit in the face of consumers, but since they control a number of industry standards, everybody else has no option but to take it.

Yes, but you forget one thing: Apple really hates them. And that means Adobe's on our side.

[Mako]

Yes, but you forget one thing: Apple really hates them. And that means Adobe's on our side.

Thats like saying Iran hates North Korea...aether way it sucks for us.

[Kudistos Megistos]

Yes, but you forget one thing: Apple really hates them. And that means Adobe's on our side.

Thats like saying Iran hates North Korea...aether way it sucks for us.

It would be great if Iran hated North Korea. They'd stop giving each other money and sharing technology.

In the (near impossible) event that they had a full scale war with each other, we could just watch and laugh.

[Mako]

Dang it kudi! It was a metaphor! You totally took the wind out of my sails... :/

[Kudistos Megistos]

Steve Jobs is going to die within six weeks, according to reports.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/apple-ceo-steve-jobs-has-just-six-weeks-to-live-report-86159



EDIT:

He seems to be having trouble walking

LOL

EDIT2:

$250 for an unnoticeable increase in clock speed. Even by Apple's standards, this is retarded. Or maybe not, since people will actually pay it.