Rant about Apple - What to da about next computer

M4RKM

there is a way to get a cheap apple mac.... 2 ways actually

1 - get the refurbs, from the refurb store, which is already mentioned..
2 - wait til they release a new range, wait maybe 2 weeks... walk into your local PC World... dare i say it... by that point, they should have the new stock, and if you're lucky, some of the old stock left.. especially ex displays...
buy the previous range machine, slightly slightly lower spec, cheaper price...

i did that with my macbook pro.... £800 for something that should have been £1500... was only 4 weeks out of range... bargain IMO

M

thescouselander

markymoo wrote: »

there is a way to get a cheap apple mac.... 2 ways actually

1 - get the refurbs, from the refurb store, which is already mentioned..
2 - wait til they release a new range, wait maybe 2 weeks... walk into your local PC World... dare i say it... by that point, they should have the new stock, and if you're lucky, some of the old stock left.. especially ex displays...
buy the previous range machine, slightly slightly lower spec, cheaper price...

i did that with my macbook pro.... £800 for something that should have been £1500... was only 4 weeks out of range... bargain IMO

M

Yeah, I have looked at the reconditioned machines, maybe I'll go for one. I still think its very suspicious that shops dont offer discounts though - I believe there is a reasonable profit margin for the shops on Apple products.

firegalley246

O2 have an exclusive contract with Apple to sell the iPhone for the foreseeable future. Blame Apple for that.

C_Ronaldo

thescouselander wrote: »

And, why is it that if I want an IPhone I have to sign up with O2?

dont you read the news, apple signed a contract with O2 to have the O2 available on its network, same with germany where its on the t mobile network

M4RKM

c'mon.. phone exclusivity isn't new...

i remember back in the days of phones with black and white screens, when wap just started... the nokika 7110 was exclusive to o2, (ok.. bt cellnet) for a while before it appeared anywhere else...

it happened then. its happening now.... it is nothing new

Leopard

Apple thinks different.

It's largely the creation of one remarkable man: it and he have their own way of going about things and it's that independence of mind that has enabled both of them to survive and to prosper.

Apple says, in effect, "This is what we make and this is how we sell it: if you don't want it, go buy a Winbox like the other sheep and spend the rest of your life in the agony threads of MSE trying to get it to work."

Apple makes good kit with good software; it complies with the law, it offers reliable warranty and it provides excellent customer service. Enjoy that or don't buy it.

Part (a large part) of its success and why its stuff works properly is precisely because it controls every aspect of the operation. It designs, builds and sells everything itself - both hardware and software - so everything it produces is compatible with everything else it produces.

The thing that worries me most about Apple is what will happen when Steve Jobs is no longer able to continue. (You only have to look at what happened to Apple when he wasn't at its helm.)

The thing I wish most about computing would be that Bill Gates's parents had never met.

The world would be a much happier and less stressful place if all its computers were Apple.

superscaper

Leopard wrote: »

The thing I wish most about computing would be that Bill Gates's parents had never met.

The world would be a much happier and less stressful place if all its computers were Apple.

Apple wasn't created in a vacuum. They'd have probably ended up exactly like Microsoft. Its' modern reinvention was solely BECAUSE of competition. The assumption that with no Microsoft, Apple computers as they exist today would be the same is as religious and fanatical as wanting Bill Gates to not have been born.

M4RKM

it wasn't just one remarkable man... woz had a good input into the beginning part of the comapny... but i'll totally agree, it was when Steve Jobs came back, that he brought the company back to life!!



M

[Deleted User]

Leopard wrote: »

The thing I wish most about computing would be that Bill Gates's parents had never met.

The world would be a much happier and less stressful place if all its computers were Apple.

Your precious Apple would not exist if it was not for the forward thinking and ingenuity of Mr Gates.

Leopard

Markymoo,

Woz is a very nice man who designed and built a great little computer in a garage.

Steve Jobs created Apple and sold them, with remarkable success.

Woz left and became an academic.

Jobs was ousted from Apple, went off and created Pixar (with remarkable success).

He then returned, picked up the collapsing mess that others had turned Apple into, and (without Woz) created what it is today - a remarkable success.

Apple survived the loss of the talented Woz; the big question is, will it survive the loss of the remarkable Jobs.



Superscaper,

I'm neither religious nor fanatical - and I don't buy Apple 'phones, either - but I did, to get back to a more constructive note, observe that Bill Gates himself conceded recently that Apple's strength is that it designs and builds both the hardware and the software of its products.

The assumption you criticise is your own creation. It is not, nor has it ever been, one of mine.