The only thing that works best on Apple products are idiots.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett A Mansfield" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:11:41 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Customer equipment I'm the farthest right wing conservative you're likely to ever meet, not rich but not poor, and white. I only use PC if there is an absolute reason for it...and that is extremely rare. All of the best networking tools work best on mac. Thank you, Brett A Mansfield > On May 16, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apples, (black)Lincolns and Birkenstocks are for rich liberal democrats. > > PCs (specifically Dells), white Cadillacs and Ostrich Boots are for rich > conservative republicans. > > Republican boys like to date democrat girls but marry republican girls (and > later cheat with democrat divorcees). > > Democrat girls like to date democrat boys but they are all too poor and > stoned and majoring in liberal arts or political science. > > Republican girls just run around with each other getting drunk until some > republican boy sobers up enough to ask them for marriage. > > Poor republican boys get reality shows involving guns, mud, moonshine and > wrestling animals in a swamp. > > Poor democrat boys wear shirts with political causes printed on them, hang > out with Goth cutter girls and smoke cigarettes. > > Give a republican boy a welder and he will make a swamp buggy out of an old > VW. > Give a democrat boy a welder and he will turn it into an objet d'art > symbolizing the military industrial oppression of the worker. > > And that is why there are so many apple haters here... > > -----Original Message----- From: Brett A Mansfield > Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 12:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Customer equipment > > I buy all of my groceries at Walmart and most of my electronics at apple. > There are a lot of apple haters on here it seems. > > I can walk a customer through setting up their AirPort Extreme a lot easier > than Asus, netgear, or dlink. The Apple interface never changes. It's the > same for every model. The others change their gui quite frequently. > > Thank you, > Brett A Mansfield > >> On May 16, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I remember telling a customer he should either learn how to configure his >> AirPort himself, get AppleCare, or get a regular router like a Linksys or >> Netgear with a web GUI if he expected his ISP to provide step-by-step phone >> support. >> >> He said he would go out and buy a non-Apple router. >> >> He came back with a TimeMachine. >> >> That's another thing I hate about Apple, they have to use special names for >> ordinary things, so people don't compare prices. So you don't have a router, >> you have an AirPort. You don't have an external hard drive, you have a >> TimeMachine. >> >> But just like some people only shop at WalMart, some people only shop for >> electronics at the Apple Store. Probably the same people who buy all their >> groceries at Whole Foods. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Prince >> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 1:06 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Customer equipment >> >> No doubt. >> >> The least they could do is to give it a web GUI. Beyond me why it has to >> be some proprietary interface. >> >> bp >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >> >>>> On 5/16/2015 10:37 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >>>> On 5/16/15 10:17, Bill Prince wrote: >>>> >>>> Plus, for reasons that are not clear to me, Apple has to change the way >>>> the stupid AirPort admin tool works every month or two. So even if you >>>> knew how to set it up in August; come September it's a whole new ball >>>> game. >>> >>> >>> Software developers need to do something. >>> >>> ~Seth >
