Apple Store goes offline

Which, Apple, no doubt, will reluctantly sell them at the reassuringly expensive price of $599.95, to be reduced after a month to $399.95...

Apple owners have got to be the most gullible people on the planet. About as deep as the layer of water on the road 30 minutes after the rain has stopped.

lol, great atricle

What about the morons who got the windows logo tatooed on themselves? Or the idiots who stood in line to get Vista Ultimate? Can you be lumped in with them because you have a platform in common?

Certainly there are members of the Church of Jobs, but not everyone who uses is a product is a zealot.

I, for instance, have a mac, but I am not a BMW-driving, frappucino-slurping, birkenstock-wearing, iphone-toting automaton.

How many column-inches are wasted everyday by this inane finger pointing? Are you really so desperate to feel superior to someone that you need to get into a religious war about an appliance that delivers porn and Gmail?

Can't we all just get along?

-m

The store often goes offline. Normally for maintenance, sometimes when new product details get posted.

Doesn't normally get posted here though- that kind of thing is usually reserved for tuaw.com and other fan sites.

Rich Wargo no doubt feels a little better after getting that little rant off his chest.

Funnily enough there's people out there who buy the odd apple product from time to time who aren't quite shallow. 

Believe it or not- there are iPod and iPhone owners out there who are happy to buy iPods and iPhones whether they watch the ads or not. Some actually just like them. And some don't mind how much they cost, because they still like them. They like them alot.

I have an iPod and I'm quite happy to accept it's not the best music player out there spec-wise, but I still prefer using it to say, a Creative or a Sony.

And, fortunately, I'm not that gullible either. 

Quite happy to accept I'm fairly shallow though...

i own some birkenstocks, and they've lasted years. (8 and counting) u guys crack me up
...move along, find something better to do

Oooo... hitting a bit close to home, huh?

Usually when someone says "why can't we all just get along?" what they mean is "why don't you just acknowledge my intrinsic superiority and do what I tell you."

Besides, I prefer to use Ubuntu Linux. I do not like Microsoft's products and only use them when I absolutely have to, like at work, where the specialized applications packages I must use are only available on Windows. (And won't work under Wine, sorry.)

I also do not like tattoos. I don't mind if others have them, but I don't fancy anyone sticking a needle into my flesh over and over again.

Actually, thank you for your comment about the Church of Jobs, I should have directed my comments towards that group, not Apple users in general. I thought, however, that you were required to pledge your soul to Steve-o before he would sell you one of his reassuringly expensive boxes?


Jorge, are you high? I can't find a single reference in Google to consumers standing in line for a copy of Vista Ultimate, unless you mean the check out line (though this is also questionable). Also, I've never met a Mac user that didn't fit one of the various stereotypes. It's not inane finger pointing that goes on here. It's very entertaining to The Rest of Us.

I've gotten the smirks from people with macs, I've gotten the "lol BSoDs" retorts. It's not funny anymore quite frankly, and hardly true anymore. 
And if you know what causes a BSoD in the first place, you'd know how lame the "BSoD" jokes really are.

Snobbery isn't a way to make people like Macs. It's a way to hate both Macs and the people who use them.

You may not be one of those people Jorge, but there are plenty out there that make the whole community look bad. And quite frankly, I"m tired sick and tired of it.

I'll buy a Mac when and if I want to. I plan on buying a laptop pretty soon, and the outcome can be anything at this point (Laptop with Windows, Linux distro, OSX, etc).

Oh and one more thing, if I end up getting a Mac laptop, I'm not going to "Switch". No, I'm not dumping Windows, and no, I'm not dumping Linux. Quit bothering me about "Helping the cause" / "Going pure" and b********* off.

we are surrounded by an atmosphere consisting mainly of Nitrogen, Oxygen and Argon.

Mac users get laid. Windows users stay at home, on Friday nights, playing Warcraft.

Reference; Wikipedia: The Windows/Warcraft Infertility Paradox

the last avid mac user I met, had a mac book, drove a mercedes, frequented starbucks, was gay and obsessed with porn. all of which are bunk and vastly overrated.

" Mac users get laid."

Mommy doesn't count, iDweeb.

Spinnie now spends so much of his waking life on hatred, he's become an irrelevance, in journalistic terms. Personally, I think he should stop drinking so much, clean out his attic and get a girlfriend, but he probably hates me for thinking that, too.

Take up a hobby, Spinnie. Something that doesn't make you boring.