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Dear Apple, I'm Leaving You

By bgamall4   Follow   Thu, 1 Nov 2012, 10:10pm   810 views   8 comments
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Dear Tim, There’s no easy way to put this so I’ll just come right out with it. I’m leaving you. It’s been great (mostly) but it’s over. I figured the least I could do is to explain my decision in full – I like to think it might help protect you from nasty break-ups like this in the future. I’ve been with you, with Apple I mean, for 13 years now – ever since 1999. Perhaps you’ve forgotten: I was a spotty teenager; I bought one of your cute little translucent iBooks. Slowly but surely I painted most parts of...

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1. HEY YOU Follow Befriend (4) 357 threads 965 comments

   1   1:48am Fri 2 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Hang in with Apple. Romney is stopping Jeep from moving to China & I'm sure he will force Apple to move all production back to the U.S. & produce quality products.

2. zzyzzx Follow Befriend (9) 436 threads 4,261 comments Baltimore, MD

   2   8:46am Fri 2 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons (Mypods and Broonsticks) about Apple. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mypods_and_Boomsticks In the episode's subplot, Lisa gets her very own MyPod (a parody of iPod). During a trip to the mall, Lisa obtains a "MyPod" from Krusty at the Mapple Store. Bart interrupts an important message from Mapple founder Steve Mobbs, insulting "Mapple's" user base, Meanwhile, Lisa becomes obsessed with her new MyPod until she gets a US$1200 "MyBill". She goes to Mapple's undersea headquarters and begs Steve Mobbs to consider a reduced payment plan. Steve Mobbs offers Lisa a job at Mapple to help with her bill. Much to her chagrin, Lisa is given a job where she must stand on a street corner dressed as a MyPod, handing out Mapple pamphlets and telling people to "Think Differently." The episode features numerous parodies of Apple Inc. and its products. Apple is portrayed as Mapple, with the MyPod, MyPhone, MyTunes, MyCube, Mapple Store and Braniac Bar referring respectively to the iPod, iPhone, iTunes, Power Mac G4 Cube, Apple Store and Genius Bar. Later episodes of the show also feature a MyPad, a reference to the iPad. The CEO of Mapple is Steve Mobbs, a parody of Apple Inc.'s then-CEO Steve Jobs. The scene where Comic Book Guy throws a sledge hammer at the screen is a reference to the famous "1984" Apple commercial. It's one of my favorite Simpson's episode, and is extremely funny.

3. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 209 threads 4,521 comments Davis, CA

   3   10:28am Fri 2 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   ?4 RMoney finds your lack of faith.... disturbing.

4. YesYNot Follow Befriend (2) 17 threads 443 comments Reston, VA

   4   11:02am Fri 2 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   It's funny to me that one of his gripes was that apple is not cool anymore, because his mom is getting it. Samsung has been playing on that in their advertisements. It does seem like we are at that point in the apple adoption cycle. Incidentally, my mom has an iphone and is considering an apple laptop. I have a couple of ipods, which were purchased b/c the competition continually made crappy devices that didn't work well. Apple's ipod just worked. Now, the competition is getting more reliable. Apple long ago won the annoying as fuck award in attempting to install a bunch of crapware onto all of your PCs just because you have an ipod. So, I haven't used an ipod in years. In other words, apple has been losing its competitive advantage when it comes to reliability, and that was the only real advantage for me. From the article it seems that there are a bunch of other gripes about apple products.

5. curious2 Follow Befriend (5) 32 threads 2,344 comments Premium

   5   12:23pm Fri 2 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   People used to have a choice between Apple and other products, and Apple was definitely different. Personally, I always liked gadgets and features and I felt that Apple was over-simplified, so I bought cheaper things that I could take apart and re-configure. Then Apple became hugely successful, and others in the market (especially Samsung) began copying Apple products. Copycats lacked the Apple spirit, but they copied the products because they were profitable. Now there isn't much choice anymore: trying to leave Apple would be like trying to exit a hall of mirrors, where every turn leads you to another poor reflection. I want a smartphone but I want it to have infrared and not be locked to a carrier. Meanwhile, I stick with my old dumbphone, which works too.

6. lostand confused Follow Befriend (9) 184 threads 1,668 comments Premium

   6   3:36pm Fri 2 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   curious2 says Meanwhile, I stick with my old dumbphone, which works too Ha! I thought I was the only one with a dumbphone.

7. curious2 Follow Befriend (5) 32 threads 2,344 comments Premium

   7   4:06pm Fri 2 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   lostand confused says I thought I was the only one with a dumbphone. There is at least one more: Apple-Samsung jury foreman explains how non-iPhone owning jury decided I can imagine the jury foreman's frustration on seeing the evidence that Samsung executives had ordered engineers to copy the iPhone instead of innovating something better.

8. E-man Follow Befriend (31) 34 threads 2,612 comments San Jose, CA Premium

   8   9:43pm Sat 3 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Go ahead & leave. Don't come crawling back later & begging for forgiveness. :) Why is this even a story? Who cares?