On 6/22/2012 11:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I agree it stinks, but if you refuse to use products like this, you're confining yourself to a fringe, and you can rest assured there won't be enough people in your group to sway the product offerings of MS & Apple & etc.
No, actually, I don't think it stinks at all. What you're talking about and what Microsoft, et.al., are selling aren't the same thing.
I've said it here before but it bears repeating: when you buy an Apple product you don't buy a computer. You buy the Apple Experience. The shiny box is just that: a box. It's the delivery platform for that experience. Have a Kindle? Same thing: it's a delivery platform for Amazon. Android? Third verse same as the first. Microsoft is doing the same with Windows Phone and Surface. The shiny box isn't the product. It's the a delivery platform for the experience inside. The experience is the product.
Put bluntly: if you want a computer then buy a computer. Don't buy an appliance with the expectation of getting a general purpose computer because you'll be sadly disappointed.
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