I think he meant the majority of the industrialized world. Obviously the impoverished wouldn't have computers or ipods.
At the newspaper I work at, I am surrounded by Mac fans, and I CONSTANTLY mock them and their precious machines. I say stuff like, "No no, you guys aren't a computer company, you're a headphone company," and "How is Steve Jobs brilliant? Sony made mp3 players that can hold more and cost a fraction before this ipod thing ever came out." I really like how people make it out like they knew all along this ipod thing would take off...in actually it was probably just a novelty thing that skyrocketed by dumb luck.
I hate Apple with the burning passion of a thousand sons, but again, that doesn't prevent me from objectively saying that they have not innovated anything. A phone that plays music has been done a million times, and as for a touch screen--well, we gamers have had those for a bit now too. So has, I dunno, every ATM on the north shore of the US. The checkout line in Shaw's has 'em too.
People at work have all kinds of flimsy defenses but I tend to quickly destroy them. I.e:
Apple 'tards said:
Well at least it doesn't take Apple so long to come out with new things, like Windows vista is
My Response said:
"Yeah, that's because Microsoft gets it right on the first or second try. There's been only like 5 versions of Windows, 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP. What are you guys on now, like 14 tries?
Steve Jobs fanboys said:
Apple products are much easier to use
My Response said:
That's because their designed for a slobbering retard. And all Apple people do is go online and use iTunes. I got at least ten things in my house that cost less than half the average Mac that can do that...better than it can, too.
Mactards said:
Well you're using an older mac. You have to admit the new ones are pretty nice.
My Response said:
First that's no excuse for you because you have always liked Apple. Second, of course OSX is good--Steve Jobs realized he was doing such a horrible job on his crap OS that he threw it away and gave a copy of Unix to his engineers and said "Put the menu on top and let's call it a day." As a nice side effect, the menu has a really nice framerate, which is enough to fool any non-gamer who has never seen a high framerate before, into thinking it's quality.
I like when my computer at work gives me grief. "Have you rebuilt the desktop? Did you run Norton Utilities? I run it twice a week to fix errors on my hard drive. Maybe you have a bad sector on your disk." YEAH, DUMBASS, THAT'S NOOOOOOOTTTTT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, ALMOST EVER, ESPECIALLY NOT TWICE A WEEK. All they ever suggest is to put more "memory" (they mean RAM) into it. These re-re's have 4 gigs of RAM in like 5 year old computers...MODERN ram which obviously is not being utilized.
Heh. I actually have a list on my wall, 4 pages long, of things that have happened to me on Apple machines that have NEVER EVEN COME CLOSE to happening to me on PC's. Complete and sudden power downs, applications vanishing off my screen, CD-ROM drives that can't be opened by any means, system lockups that even freeze hardware response, mouse movements randomly being sped up exponentially...I even once got the "Could not find OS" error. And having to rip the plug out of them is classic, too.
Most people argue that I just haven't used the good apple products but in all honesty I'm not comparing the best to the best. In work I use a g3 with OS9.2, and a g4 with the same OS, but to be blunt about it, these are things that never, even on Windows 3.11, ever happened to me. Like, ever. You know on one of my comps at work, if I even look at a folder that has a "jpg" file extension in it, my whole program just vanishes off my screen...? Seriously, WTF is that?
I'm sorry I went off, I just hate Apple so much. Ever read MacWorld? It's full of dudes who start almost every article with a childish Gates jab or a Windows diss. All they ever do is take credit for this industry of personal computing with which they had nothing to do. ALL of the computer innovations of the last 30 years are owed almost SOLELY to PCs--even the old Mp3 movement, the very file format upon which the whole thing is based was born of the PC, and iTunes is just a spin off of Napster.
These losers still don't even have the Mousewheel, FFS.
