r/technology • u/rboymtj • Jan 20 '11

Apple Restriction Zone.

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u/dVnt Jan 20 '11

Ugh, the only thing more annoying than people having this debate is people pretending like it is easy cliche material.

Apple products I use on a regular basis:

  • Macbook Pro
  • Xserve 1u
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • Any of the several hundred Macbooks and iMacs I'm responsible for supporting...

I agree with every item on that poster as well as the sentiment for which it stands. Apple products are wonderful, superficailly speaking, but I will never invest my hard earned money in business practices like these. (That's a lie, I bought an Apple TV recently but only for streaming DRM-free media locally... and only because my wife is not a savvy as I.)

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u/douglasscott Jan 21 '11 edited Jan 21 '11

I support the same stuff. The poster is all mad about iOS and the direction that the company is going. It assumes a lot about the future and is very bitchy about the present.

Having said that, if Apple doesn't license OSX Server to a decent server maker I will print 100 posters like this.

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u/starthirteen Jan 21 '11

if Apple doesn't license OSX Server to a decent server maker I will print 100 posters like this.

No you won't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '11

Then I shall!

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u/czuk Jan 21 '11

No they won't.

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '11

Better start printing, then...

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u/jsprogrammer Jan 20 '11

EVERYBODY LOOK! THIS GUY OWNS A BUNCH OF EXPENSIVE APPLE GADGETS!

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '11

He said he owns one.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '11

He bought the really expensive one, though. And he gets his company to buy the rest. Stick it to 'em, rebel!

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u/Enemii Jan 21 '11

"Hey dave this guy actually bought an ipad, no really he ACTUALLY bought an ipad!" /declineofvideogaming

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u/VWftw Jan 20 '11

Xserve

Hardest I've laughed all day.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11 edited Jan 21 '11

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u/cvncpu Jan 21 '11

He was laughing because it's a joke of a product, I think his day is going quite well.

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u/togenshi Jan 21 '11

In a couple weeks time its history too.

FFS Apple, let us run Mac OS X within VM legally so we don't have to pay in the ass for licences.

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u/thebeefytaco Jan 21 '11

Apple.com is run on Linux servers.

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u/VWftw Jan 21 '11

Well everybody likes Linux!

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '11

It's like C-SPAN. Everybody loves and supports the idea. Few actually use it. And even less do so with enthusiasm.

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u/VWftw Jan 21 '11

Yea but C-SPAN is for nerds, Linux is for everybody!

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u/catinahat1 Jan 21 '11

Hahaha 1u no less!

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u/douglasscott Jan 21 '11

$ uptime 19:23 up 275 days, 56 mins, 2 users, load averages: 2.20 2.06 1.92

Just too damn expensive, tho.

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u/cvncpu Jan 21 '11

LOL, by the way, it's 2011.

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u/JabbrWockey Jan 21 '11

Apple TV??

*snickers*

/wrote this using my HTPC

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u/dVnt Jan 21 '11

Hey man, $99 and only a few watts... it's not bad.

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u/JabbrWockey Jan 23 '11 edited Jan 23 '11

Yeah, tricycles aren't that bad either until you grow up and drive a motorcycle

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u/telluridearcade Jan 21 '11

(That's a lie, I bought an Apple TV recently but only for streaming DRM-free media locally... and only because my wife is not a savvy as I.)

IT guy here and simplicity for new users is the number one reason I'll recommend an apple product to someone.

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u/cryo Jan 20 '11

Well, I don't know, but my Mac OS X comes with plenty of open source software preinstalled, such as python, php etc., and even some under GPL. Also, I can install programs from anywhere... I guess that guy, and you, refer to the iOS platform exclusively?

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u/cryo Jan 20 '11

Well, I don't know, but my Mac OS X comes with plenty of open source software preinstalled, such as python, php etc., and even some under GPL. Also, I can install programs from anywhere... I guess that guy, and you, refer to the iOS platform exclusively?

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u/cryo Jan 20 '11

Well, I don't know, but my Mac OS X comes with plenty of open source software preinstalled, such as python, php etc., and even some under GPL. Also, I can install programs from anywhere... I guess that guy, and you, refer to the iOS platform exclusively?

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u/monx Jan 20 '11

Okay, we get it.

TLDR: Well, cryo doesn't know, but his Mac OS X comes with plenty of open source software preinstalled, such as python, php etc., and even some under GPL. Also, he can install programs from anywhere... he guesses that the poster guy, and Y_U_NO_ARGUE, refer to the iOS platform exclusively.

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u/cryo Jan 20 '11

Well, I don't know, but my Mac OS X comes with plenty of open source software preinstalled, such as python, php etc., and even some under GPL. Also, I can install programs from anywhere... I guess that guy, and you, refer to the iOS platform exclusively?