> nospam wrote in reply to Joe Kappus: > >> that's absolute rubbish. there is *no* need to use the command line to >> update firmware. it can all be done within itunes.... > > <crap omitted> > > Davoud
Have you lost your tact old man? I am not the one who's closed off to the world and furthermore my initial response was hastily written and lacked any and all sorts of proofing. You see, I usually don't waste much time with your kind for this reason: The arguments you start, you can not defend. I expected more from your age category but apparently not, you had to get down to personal bashing.
You need to adjust your readers, I never once stated Adobe to be equivelent to Photoshop; it was even noted that I run both. However, I do find The Gimp perfectly suitable for trivial work.
Should you ever reference this though, here's what you missed:
1. You failed to defend how that sale per sq. ft. figure wasn't flawed. 2. You brought up a crap line about how you know someone in the "media industry" who can't believe Apple's stuff makes it in the news, even as their CEO sits on the board of one of the largest media giants. 3. You failed to give a compelling reason as to why iTunes alone sold iPods when the first two generations didn't sell all that well comparitively and a HUGE spike started with the addition of USB support. iTunes Store didn't even take off until 2006 and iPod sales were soaring in 2004, you can pull the sales data up if you want. 4. You fail to explain why stores treat existing customers like patients and insist on refusing expansion in order to maximize profits with no benefit to the consumer. They have the monopoly on harddisc players, so there's no need to cater. 5. You refuse to acknowledge the move to Intel had nothing to do with performance gain, it had everything to do with capturing windows users and taking advantage of the deal intel gave them. 6. You went into this conversation having no knowledge of how a Linux user accesses an iPod and were unable to process that information instead exclaiming, "BUT THAT'S NOT HOW APPLE SAYS TO DO IT!!". For some of us, there is no other way to do it, we aren't going to limit our choices. 7. You (and others) fail to realize that APL is a woefully inferior choice as a lossless codec. Just as putting touchbuttons on the 3g ipod was a bad idea, this is probably worse. No other company would ever want to touch the format for reasons I specified in another post to this thread. 8. Your biggest mistake of all was that you lost your cool and attacked the other party. You underestimated who you went up against and you were unable to deal with the consequence; having each and every one of your foolish retorts shot down.
The one thing you did get right is that I wear my resentment for Apple and your kind that I wear on my sleeve. Jealously though? Forget it. I'm out of the fanboy room, this sidequest of boredom has given way to irritation.
