I apologize, it is more of a “who is going to win the superbowl” level of friendly trash talk here. Apple idiots/geniuses will always stake out their claims of gnostic superiority while the PC proletariat will attempt to shout down the bourgeois. (Swap Apple and PC in that sentence as you see fit). All good fun... until somebody gets hurt...
From: Brett A Mansfield Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 1:51 PM To: [email protected] 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 > > > >
