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Listed below are comments made by MarvinHeemeyer between Monday, 15th June 2009 and Wednesday, 1st July 2009.

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Listening to Mr iPhone 7:31pm on 01 Jul 2009 @ #17

I've sat at thousands of Macs and same with PCs. The FACTS are that PCs are faster. People have different opinions on OS - your preference is MacOS, fine - but you are deluding yourself if you think people chose PC because they are idiots. These people have exactly the same choice as you but they chose Windows.

Millions would run MacOS on PC hardware if it were allowed by Apple. Apple say, if you love the operating system, you HAVE TO BUY our overpriced, under-performing (though shiny) hardware to run it on. I, like many others, are not prepared to make that sacrifice.

I'm getting really tired of condescending Mac owners acting as though they've be touched by the hand of god. Apple and Steve Jobs (and by extension Ive) are in the business of branding - and they are second only to Nike (think £110 sneakers).
Listening to Mr iPhone 6:31pm on 01 Jul 2009 The comments about shiny boxes are spot on. Nice to know I'm not alone.

I like Ive and I don't think anyone can dispute that the iMac he designed was very different (in appearance) to things previous.

But good design is the combination of looks AND function. The original iPod had horrendous battery issues but there was no easy way to replace the battery. If you made that mistake in design school they'd point it out... Obviously didn't occur to anyone at (the mighty) Apple design team.

Oh, and back then Apple told their customers "buy a new iPod" - kinda takes the shine off Ive's comments on money.
Video Bay: A young YouTube? 7:56pm on 29 Jun 2009 VideoBay ignoring copyright will most certainly make the resource better for the visitor. Say goodbye to "this is not available in your country".
It's the same as TPB having better music choice than iTunes or better movie choice than Blockbuster.
Corporate interference only ever serves to stifle the wonders of modern technology in the interest of getting a few people rich, and this becomes immediately measurable as you watch the choice get ever slimmer.

Oh and shookster, maybe in your haste to spit venom at IE6, you've overlooked the fact that HTML5 doesn't run in almost every other browser either. Speaking as a web developer ;-)
Piracy: Did someone blink? 6:59pm on 15 Jun 2009 Neither of these corporations invented the world wide web, nor have they written a note of the music, but they act as though they are gods of both.
Piracy: Did someone blink? 1:58pm on 15 Jun 2009 I guess there was finally enough money in it for Virgin to develop a conscience over illegal filesharing. It's a disgrace that customers pay Virgin and then Virgin act like your own personal digital police - they should consider the old phrase "the customer is always right" before millions switch their supplier.

And as for Universal (et al), they don't have the product to enforce their blanket ban. What if, like millions of others, I don't want "Amy Winehouse, Girls Aloud, La Roux and Black Eyed Peas"? Maybe I'm looking for rare northern soul or underground punk. They have a pitiful roster and back catalogue compared to 'the web' - when will they stop trying to force us into buying their rubbish?

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