Well unfortunately if Apple made cameras they would take a standard size film
and produce a negative that would somehow not work in a standard size negative
carrier.
At 09:53 AM 1/20/2003 -0600, you wrote:
And that's why I'm THANKFUL I own a Macintosh. <g>
The funniest one of these I've seen over the years was one called "If
Microsoft Made Automobiles." Does anyone happen to have a copy of that one?
It was really funny--things like, "Every now and then, for no apparent
reason, the motor would stop. Everyone would have to get out of the car,
slam the doors, then get back in before it would start again."
(For all you MS apologists, yes, I know the above is outdated, I know XP is
wonderful, I know I'm out of touch for liking Macs, yadda yadda yadda.
Please don�t bother pointing all this out again.)
--Mike
P.S. I have to admit that my current iMac is the worst Mac I've ever owned.
It's almost as "good" as a PC, and I'm actually running MS software on the
damned thing (IE and Word). I'm not going gently into this good night,
however. The market, in its infinite wisdom, has "optimized" and "evolved"
the desktop computer into a sullied morass of LCD mediocrity.
> That's why I own a Macintosh
>
>
> In a message dated 1/20/03 12:23:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> Let's imagine for a moment that Microsoft buys out C and N and made
cameras.
>>
>> Every year or two they would introduce new cameras and they would not
accept
>>
>> the same film, lenses, filters, flash units, tripods, batteries, etc. as
>> the
>>
>> previous version, and could not be modified to do so.
>>
>>
>>
>> They would not work with any other manuafacturers components only with
>>
>> microsoft specified products. So complete brand loyalty would be required
>> so
>>
>> none of us would ever buy a tamron or tokina again.
>>
>>
>>
>> Each lens will be required to routinely misfocus and over expose for no
>>
>> reason
>>
>>
>>
>> Loading film would take 5 hours as the camera refuses to regonise the film
>>
>> iso and wont let you do it manually.
>>
>>
>>
>> Would be 70% bigger with more features than the last camera of which 99%
>> of
>>
>> those features we never used.
>>
>>
>>
>> They would come with a 10 day warranty and a customer service whose phone
>>
>> was always busy and which ignored e-mail and regular mail letters. If you
>>
>> ever did reach a human you would be told that the problem was obviously
>> your
>>
>> fault.
>>
>>
>>
>> Periodically, just when you were ready to take a once-in-a-lifetime
>>
>> photograph the camera would freeze up and refuse to work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Periodically the company would come out with upgrades, but when you got
>> them
>>
>> you would find that the instructions were incomplete or wrong and the
parts
>>
>> would not fit anyway.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cameras would be manufactured identical to first prototypes with no
testing
>>
>> or debugging so that the company could have its customers do its work for
>>
>> it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Finally they would buy out Pentax , minolta, contax (leaving only leica
>> for
>>
>> those who can afford it and sigma (who now has a cult following) who will
>>
>> give their cameras away for free and allow any one to build their camera
>> or
>>
>> lens) there is no competition
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