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    Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"

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    Image of semperfi1776 semperfi1776
    09/16/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Once a company dominates a certain product market, they stops creating innovative and exciting product in that category because they know nobody can compete with them.
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    09/16/09

    @semperfi1776: Well technically they innovate less because it's cheaper and as such they make more. I would hope that the big 3 were a good enough example as of late (in truck/suv anyways)...
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    Image of kevlar69 kevlar69
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Incredible
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Almost Daft Punk (non crappy version)
    [xspblog.com]
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    Image of bill cant fart bill cant fart
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Hey, is the iPod touch any good?
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/15/09


    @bill cant fart: It's greeeeeaaaaat!
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    Image of benjamoon benjamoon
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    This is just waiting for an auto-tune remixing.
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    Image of Twenty5 Twenty5
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    I might seriously stop reading gizmodo. I mean their Apple fanboy-ism is going way to overboard. I have a MBP and an iPhone, I love Apple stuff, but to see you guys posting retarded articles like these is just plain stupid.

    You guys have truly reached a new low.
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    Image of TigerLeopard TigerLeopard
    09/15/09

    @Twenty5: Apple makes gadgets. They are innovators. They are extremely relevant to this site.

    I'm sorry if the other tech companies can't churn out any "newsworthy" gadgets!
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    Image of Vroomtrap Vroomtrap
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    LMAO... i got to 40 seconds and couldn't stop laughing.

    This is the kinda stuff that's lead to Sony's and Canon's extremely lame PR blow-hardness.
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    geiko promoted this comment Vroomtrap was starred Vroomtrap was unstarred
    Image of geiko geiko
    09/15/09

    @Vroomtrap: Bingo! Hit the nail on the head.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    And journalists are applauding a sales pitch - why?
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    Image of met2art met2art
    09/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Group hysteria and a general decline in quality, unbiased journalism these days. Practically everything is an editorial now. News is old news.
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    Image of Tightlines Tightlines
    09/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Perhaps they were applauding an iconic personality's return from a hard bout with cancer?
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    Image of met2art met2art
    09/15/09

    @Tightlines: Every 45 seconds?
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment met2art was starred met2art was unstarred
    Image of geiko geiko
    09/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Yup, and we sit here and wonder why people like Jesus praise Apple so much. It's amazing what sitting through such a biased conference (I'm not saying it shouldn't be) can do to you. And on top of that, add the crowd stupidity factor, and pretty soon, you have the recipe for creating fanboys. The sad thing is, our society has created situations like these in every circle of life, and starting at a young age (coke vs. pepsi, nike vs. adidas, mcdonalds vs. bk) and the large corporations love it because if they win you at a young age, they win you for life.

    When we start dealing with things like cars, computers, houses and other big ticket items, we then start to feel like we really need to justify our purchases. So what started out as a researched purchase, can easily turn you into a fanboy. So if someone makes fun of your product, even on the internet where you don't even know the person or see them in real life, you start blindly defending things in order to convince both the person and yourseld that you made a good purchase. When in reality, all man made products have some form of fault. And considering the fact that we have no stake in the company, it's even deemed more worthless to be a fanboy, because then, the company in question gets a free walking billboard that in turn actually pays the company in order to keep advertising and convincing more people.
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    Image of puffnstuff puffnstuff
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Someone should autotune one these keynotes.
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    Image of TonyTriple TonyTriple
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Jobs looked practically skeletal! Wow. I never really noticed before. I mean I'm concerned about him now.
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    Software_Goddess promoted this comment TonyTriple was starred TonyTriple was unstarred
    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    09/15/09

    @TonyTriple: You should be.
    Cancer is a serious fight and very few make it out alive.
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    Image of TonyTriple TonyTriple
    09/15/09

    @Software_Goddess: It does put everything in perspective. The Mac vs. PC thing doesn't mean anything in comparison. Regardless your taste in OS, here is a man who has had a big influence on the tech world and he's withering away

    ...dude...
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    Image of BucksterMcgee BucksterMcgee
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Someone need's to auto-tune that...
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    Xeno promoted this comment BucksterMcgee was starred BucksterMcgee was unstarred
    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/15/09

    @BucksterMcgee: lol
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Practically orgasmic…
    but seriously incredible!
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    Image of stevegiblin stevegiblin
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Kanye West thought that Motorola's keynote was better.
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    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    09/15/09

    In reply to Apple Is "Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Great, Incredible, Really Nice and Unbelievable"
    Doubleplusgood?
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    Image of RedBackFur RedBackFur
    01/06/09

    In reply to 17" MacBook Pro Unibody First Hands On
    So again Apple says, "Fuck the Corporate User". Yea, our computers never break. Uh....until they do.


    I can't get On-Sight AppleCare Service.

    I can't pull a Hard Drive out and swap it into a loaner computer.

    I can't pull CD/DVD Drive out and swap it with a working one.

    I can't pull out a fucking BATTERY and swap in a working one.

    I can't replace a Keyboard when someone spills some of their fucking StarBucks® Latté into it.


    We can do that with our Windows Laptops, and we have on-sight service as well.


    So my traveling users with MacBookPro 17" laptops have to wait a week while they send the computers off to Texas, or have to make an appointment with the Mac Gurus at the Apple Store and wait around till their name gets called, while paying a fortune to park in San Francisco (usually) just to have them say they might have time to try to fix it.


    Wake the fuck up, Apple!

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/07/09

    @RedBackFur: I understand your argument, but I just find it odd that people would buy this, considering that they'd need to do things like swap drives and batteries and optical drives on the fly. The 15" allows for the battery and drive swap, but Macbooks, and even the iBooks and Powerbooks have not allowed swapping of the optical drive for as far back as I can remember.


    Really at this point, even if you think it's stupid, if you really need things like on-site service and lots of hot-swappable parts, you should just consider getting something else.

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