Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
I find that oh so very hard to believe. "Well informed" people know where to source good hardware for cheap and to build their computers from scratch.
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I know both of these things.
Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
What, nowhere in particular? They're a technology company, not a necessities provider; if they **** things up they go out of business and someone else will take their place, either Apple or the Open Source movement. They make good things, and they make bad things. It's the consumers responsibility to not be a brand-worshipping ****tard and buy something just because they like the name of it's provider. View the market as competing products, not companies. Take the side of a good product, not what you believe to be a good company, because no company gives two shits about you. They just care about how they can convince you to give them as much money as possible.
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I agree. Which is why I like Macs and associated hardware and software so much. Because it's superior.
Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
I guess the Microsoft angel is watching over me, because I don't have any problems with Windows either. I should go buy a lottery ticket, eh?
Science forbid that there might, say, be a vocal minority on the internet.
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I've been working with Windows for a long time, and I rely more on my personal observations than what people on the internet say. I've worked at dozens of different client sites, and the vast majority of them hate Windows because it's unreliable and it's buggy. So yes, based on my experience, you actually are in the minority.
Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
Look at the concept, not the brand. If Microsoft develops this, competitors will develop their own, so it's not worth dismissing just because Microsoft developed it. As a concept, this could turn out very well. Think of the applications for it: You could apply this not only to coffee tables but desks and wall panels. I'd love to have a desk I could draw on, see what I was drawing and have that on my monitor as well. Sure would beat shitty drawing tablets.
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We'll see.
Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
I bet if Apple came up with the idea, though, you'd think it was the second coming, amirite?  |
It would likely be executed better than Microsoft's version.