You got that right!!!
On May 16, 2015 2:16 PM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The only thing that works best on Apple products are idiots.
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> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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> ________________________________
> 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
> >
>
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