Nothing personal intended. I apply it equally to all Apple users.
----- 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 2:51:55 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Customer equipment Guys, there is no need for personal attacks here. I thought this was a friendly debate. How about we agree to disagree. Thank you, Brett A Mansfield On May 16, 2015, at 1:20 PM, joseph marsh < [email protected] > wrote: You got that right!!! On May 16, 2015 2:16 PM, "Mike Hammett" < [email protected] > wrote: > > The only thing that works best on Apple products are idiots. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > ________________________________ > 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 > > > >
