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Hi All,
Well, I am an Apple fanboy, have been so for ages. I even owned a Newton messagepad (or two) until it got stolen, I would probably still have it now otherwise.
Of course, when the iPhone came out I wanted one, even thought of buying one from the US, but didn't. I waited until they were released in Aus, lined up in the cold to get one. I love it, wouldn't have another phone. I have to carry around an old Nokia job for work as well as my iPhone, so I'd like a dual sim one, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon, so I'll just have to carry around the two phones.
I own several Macs, a couple of PC's, I don't mind Windows as much as I used to, until something goes wrong, then I find some things incomprehensible in their complexity compared to using the Mac. My MacBook is several years old, has been in for repair once during warranty, now has a pretty rough looking case, but still works well, so well in fact that although I want one of the new ones I can't think of a decent reason to go out and buy one, so I'll stick with this one until it dies completely, it does need a new battery now as this one is a bit dodgy. The repair process was seamless, I took it to an apple reseller, who fixed it and some other stuff that was on the replace it if you see it list, I didn't pay a cent.
Insofar as the iPhone is concerned, why all this snobbery about not having one. It reminds me of the "I don't watch TV" snobbery that goes about. I don't watch too much on TV, but I don't think less of people if they do, if they like the rubbish that's on TV, good on them, each to their own. But what I won't do is denigrate them for their choice like some people here are trying to do, or it at least seems that way to me.
Somehow Apple has become the "Evil Empire" for making popular products and software well. If it wasn't for Apple we would still have PC's in horrible greyish boxes and software delivered on 5.25" floppy disks. Does anyone here remember the scoffs from the PC experts when Apple released the iMac WITHOUT a floppy disk drive?
Cheers
Stuart
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