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badgolferman wrote:

The vast majority of topics are iPhone related

I think what the Apple trolls fundamentally hate is that many of those iPhone-related topics don't put Apple in the absolute best light possible.

They'd prefer the conversations be about how long the lines are outside the store at midnight, or how cook the latest colors and emojis are in iOS.

I see there's a thread about the latest Apple marketing event, for example. They want only to see that kind of stuff (i.e., they shill for marketing).

Nothing wrong with shilling for a company (Steve shills Verizon all the
time). I wonder what company I'd shill for (if they paid me, that is)...
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Marion <marionf@fact.com> wrote:

badgolferman wrote:

The vast majority of topics are iPhone related

I think what the Apple trolls fundamentally hate is that many of those iPhone-related topics don't put Apple in the absolute best light possible.

They'd prefer the conversations be about how long the lines are outside the store at midnight, or how cook the latest colors and emojis are in iOS.

I see there's a thread about the latest Apple marketing event, for example. They want only to see that kind of stuff (i.e., they shill for marketing).

Nothing wrong with shilling for a company (Steve shills Verizon all the time). I wonder what company I'd shill for (if they paid me, that is)...

Some data privacy company.

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badgolferman wrote:

Nothing wrong with shilling for a company (Steve shills Verizon all the
time). I wonder what company I'd shill for (if they paid me, that is)...

Some data privacy company.

Heh heh heh... so true. You know me well. That's good to know.

I really should write a book instead of being on Usenet and other forums.

*The day Apple finally told the truth for once*

Guess how long it would be?
:)
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Marion wrote:

badgolferman wrote:

Nothing wrong with shilling for a company (Steve shills Verizon
all the time). I wonder what company I'd shill for (if they paid
me, that is)...

Some data privacy company.

Heh heh heh... so true. You know me well. That's good to know.

I really should write a book instead of being on Usenet and other
forums.

*The day Apple finally told the truth for once*

Guess how long it would be?
:)

Considering your propensity for words and details, I imagine it could
be several hundered pages. And if the book still seems too small then
you could have the publisher use bigger font and thicker pages so
people feel like they're getting their money's worth.
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From Newsgroup: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

badgolferman wrote:

*The day Apple finally told the truth for once*

Guess how long it would be?
:)

Considering your propensity for words and details, I imagine it could
be several hundered pages. And if the book still seems too small then
you could have the publisher use bigger font and thicker pages so
people feel like they're getting their money's worth.

I really should write. I could write a book that could, in the short term, shave a few percentage points off of Apple's profits just by publishing it.

It would simply be named "The Truth About Apple Products".

Of course, I could write that book about Google/Microsoft too, but they're different in that nobody expects them to be this all mighty powerful God.

Right now I'm teaching a pool-chemistry class at the local recreation dept. Almost everything homeowners think about pool chemistry, is dead wrong.

For example, almost all homeowners think that they have to add acid to counteract the chlorine bleach being highly basic, but that's just wrong.

Also, almost every homeowner thinks you have to get rid of the phosphorous
or that you have to shock to prevent algal blooms, but that's also wrong.

But the biggest thing homeowners don't get is that the pH has almost
nothing to do with how well chlorine works in their outdoor pools.

The pH could be 8.5 and it would barely make a dent in how well the
chlorine works, and yet, every single pool store will tell them otherwise.

Why?
Why can't people think?

My real book should be that.
*What is wrong with people that they can't think?*

An example in the car industry is people think electric vehicles don't
pollute, and especially that they don't pollute greenhouse gases.

And yet, as you drive that EV off the dealer's lot next to someone who is driving an ICE off the dealers lot, the truth is the EV polluted more GHG.

For decades, I've been asking people at the pump, seemingly innocently,
"What's the difference between the premium & regular" and in decades of
asking that same question, I've only gotten the correct answer a handful of times.

It's like Chris telling me the SARS-COV2 genome is tiny, when it's not.
It's like nospam telling me Apple is efficient with RAM when it's not.

Speaking of nospam, I miss him, even as I despised his unprepossessing personality in that he doesn't flinch when it comes to defending Apple.

That's the one thing that has been different for decades on Apple ngs.

With you or me or Alan Browne or JF Mezei or Michelle Steiner or David
Empson or anyone else on it, Apple newsgroups are not normal newsgroups.

Apple newsgroups are religious newsgroups.
They're not based on facts. But on religion.

It took me years to figure out why Apple owners say the things they do.
The reality dawned on me when I went on a half-day hike with neighbors.

All the Apple owners insisted their phone could do what it can't do.
They actually *believed* that the iPhone could do what Android does.

And yet, it can't.
It doesn't.
It never will.

Why not?
Apple profits.

Sigh.
--
Don't even get me started on how much Google lies to people also.
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