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Apple kills 'Get a Mac' ad campaign

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@Alex Rose

Oh dear, I should have realised how upsetting my comment would have been to a random stranger like yourself, I'm terribly sorry.

Am I a fanboy because I have a preference in computers? Perhaps. Should I worry about that? I don't think so. I think it's probably fair to say we're all fanboys of one kind or another. I favour the Macbook Pro over other laptops because, in my opinion, it's the best balance of features, quality and price available; OS X is one unique selling point, but so too is the unibody aluminium construction - a must have feature in my experience of creaking and cracking laptops of the past.

More to the point, as other have pointed out, if Chris had done some more thinking on the subject he'd have realised that the price differential between a Macbook Pro and an *equivalent* or even near-equivalent laptop is nothing like as big as he's suggesting. So yes, if he'd applied his brain he may well have come to a different decision. In reality, as he's now said (in so many words) himself, his thinking led him to realise that he didn't need all the features and build quality of a Macbook Pro, which is another thing entirely.

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TimCook
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A no-brainer

Yes, that would be the appropriate phrase.

Had you applied your brain, you might have reached a different conclusion.

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Adobe tilts at windmills with image apps for iPad

TimCook
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Oh dear

Let's try and build some understanding here. I AM NOT APPLE. I don't work for Apple. Apple are not MY company, I have no more connection with them than you do. When I say Macs are open, it's *me* saying that, not Apple - me being a simple bystander with experience of various computers over the years and an opinion, just like you.

You seem to want to rail at "the man" over this. Unfortunately "the man" isn't here, just a bunch of people just like you with opinions. That's how comments usually work.

I maintain that your definition of "openness" is nonsensical. On the one hand you claim as proof of Apple's closed nature that its own in-built software in OS X doesn't support as many standards as VLC. Yet on the other hand, as you've admitted, VLC exists! Without any involvement by Apple, someone has come along and bestowed the Mac platform with support for a whole pile of other "non-Apple" standards. If the Mac was a "closed" platform by any definition, then that simply wouldn't be possible.

I don't agree that "open" means "does absolutely everything out of the box" as you seem to be suggesting. For me, "open" means its open to any possibility, and that's what the Mac (as opposed to the iPhone or the iPad for instance) definitely is.

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TimCook
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And also

For the record, I never used the word "spitefully". That's your own, slightly bizarre, inference. I said "specific", which is exactly what your original tirade aimed at the "Fisher Price" Mac was.

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