(April 30, 2013 at 2:01 pm)Love Wrote: I strongly dislike Apple because of its extremely disingenuous marketing techniques. For example, the outrageously overpriced MacBook Pro is, in essence, just a very powerful laptop. I feel that Apple have tricked consumers with the Mac OS operating system. Instead of allowing consumers to buy a laptop with exactly the same specification as a MacBook Pro for half the price (and manually install Mac OS), they have very cunningly developed Mac OS so that it searches for the "Trusted Platform Module" in Apple machines. At least Microsoft have not implemented such evil restrictions with Windows.A lot of factual inaccuracies there:
1) The MacBook Pro is highly priced, but I wouldn't call it overpriced. You get what you pay for: a durable, beautiful, powerful machine that works very well with the Mac OS X operating system precisely because the OS is designed for the hardware (rather than other operating systems, which have to work with multiple different combinations of hardware).
2) How are people tricked with the Mac OS operating system? Apple doesn't sell the operating system on its own; it sells it as an upgrade for a current Apple product. It also doesn't advertise or advise ways to get it working on other machines; so how exactly are they being disingenuous?
3) On the matter of getting it to install on other machines, it can be done.
4) Also, I have no idea where you got the information about the TPM, because it's utterly wrong. Besides, all Apple devices since 2009 have not included a TPM.
5) Microsoft have not implemented any "restrictions" on Windows because they are selling an Operating System, not an OS/Computer combo. Apple make the vast majority of their money from hardware, not software (upgrades to the next version of OS X cost around $20). Comparing their business models is like comparing apples to oranges.
Look, there are plenty of reasons to dislike some of the stuff Apple does; they don't have a philanthropic program (at least, they didn't under Steve Jobs...I have no idea if they have one now), and they don't allow adult themed apps into the App Store, plus they don't have a very good history of protecting user privacy.
My point is, their hardware and software are pretty damn good. By all means attack Apple for their ethics, but leave their products out of it unless there are actual legitimate reasons for hating them.
