Re:How To Get Your Own Fanboys
by cstejerean on Thursday May 01, 2008 @11:50AM
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I actually like the fact that they release their products early. Since everyone knows initial releases can be buggy the bleeding edge early adopters can go ahead and buy it, while the more careful crowd can wait for the bugs found by the early adopters to be fixed in later releases.
Did you happen to notice that jrockway doesn't use MS Windows? Perhaps you should read the last line of jrockway's post before insinuating hypocrisy with a reference to Microsoft.
Please, get over yourself.
Myself . . . ? I'm not jrockway.
Just to spell it out a bit: to criticise Microsoft or PC vendors is hardly the same as criticising whoever jrockway is. It certainly doesn't imply he's a hypocrite, since I don't know him/her and cannot, therefore, comment on their morals or integrity. It was merely a flip comment pointing out that yes, Apple do indeed release imperfect products, but so do dozens of other companies and basically we see it as not such a big deal.
Even if I were criticising jrockway as a person, why on earth would you GAS? I'm sure he/she is quite capable of repudiating me him/herself if it were necessary. Fortunately, he/she probably has the good sense to see my offhand comment for what it was: just an offhand comment, not a personal criticism.
Yea, you could never accuse Microsoft and the PC vendors of sloppy work like that.
Oh yeah, they are the collective kings of fucking things up miserably. But Apple has the image that everything they do is perfect; I'm just pointing out that they're not.
Going back to the original article, it appears Apple somehow has a fanbase that will ignore bugs just because they're Apple bugs. Isn't that interesting?
Yea, you could never accuse Microsoft and the PC vendors of sloppy work like that.