| Look, I'm not in the best of moods and so I really don't want to get into an extended argument - use searchYC with my name + Apple if you really care about my arguments - so excuse me for being a little bit snappy in this response. If you don't buy Apple's computers, they don't care about you. Apple has slowly been adding the features that they want in their computer, and they've assumed that lots of people want the same. That's the implicit agreement that you make when you buy a Mac: you're getting the computer Apple wants you to have. If you don't want that computer, don't buy Apple and stop arguing about whether or not Apple computers are good. I get that you want to tinker. My cofounder uses Linux. I really, honestly do not have a problem with Linux. Seriously. I completely understand why you would want to use it. You have a completely different mindset than I have. I'm a typical "Apple guy" so please listen to me when I say that this is my perspective, and that I say what I do to illustrate the other site. We're both right, I've said as much, and it's pissing me off that when I say "I think customization is a waste of time, I know you disagree, I'm not saying it's an argument," people come in and argue with me! Like, PLEASE excuse me for being irritated but Jesus CHRIST. We are different people! That's okay! We can still love each other and admire each other's works! I'm not assuming the two of us work the same way, and it pisses the FUCK out of me when you reply with the assumptions that: A) I don't know what kinds of tinker-obsessed users Hacker News users are, B) I haven't argued this once every five days because as MUCH as I like saying every time that "I understand your position, this isn't an argument," somebody comes in and feels the need to argue, and C) I haven't been a Linux user myself for extended periods of time, and therefore understand perfectly where you're coming from. I hold the belief that people who are really affected by aesthetic use Macs. Every last person who feels the drive that I do, the obsessive need to have every little anal detail right, uses a Mac. It's why it's so prevalent in Hollywood: designers love the Mac because it feels good. That's the right way to put it. Feels good. It's not the marketing, I assure you: there is something to how the Mac handles that delights me, that gives me joy. People who don't use Macs seem to think that when I say this I'm lying. I assure you that I'm not. |