Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Typical Mac users Date: 9 Apr 2026 03:57:50 GMT Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <10r6aq3$3qb38$9@dont-email.me> <10r6evj$3siqc$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net UoGnRkdD5wRuOUvfa50YHwbl4QM9TH9YSnyXMUGezHpkQYHCQJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:ynUVWqQct9J+NdLfoai0BeShcsY= sha256:wtUXho1CJyRGbrQH5WlXJ+mxEimkA9mTFGE3whqOK5k= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85596 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:144390 On Wed, 8 Apr 2026 22:48:50 +0200, John Bokma wrote: > On 08/04/2026 21:37, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > [..] > >> Actually its the husband that drives the Volvo, she has a SoobyRoo - >> the one whose engines are junk after 5 years, like her apple devices > > Sorry to hear that. My Mac mini died on me after 11 years of use, so > YMMV. > >> In companies I visited, plebs had Winders and the boss had a Mac and we >> had to connect the fucking things up to the network. Which was usually >> a waste of time . Apple talked Appletalk, not TCP/IP. >> >> Only MUCH later did they reluctantly implement SMB to be compatible >> with Mocrosoft, and both finally transition to native TCP.IP >> >> But not NFS... >> >> >> Only in firms whose business was Graphic Art did the 'creatives' have >> Macintoshes. >> I think some games companies had them so they could port games. > > Sounds like decades ago. That was the idea I formulated decades ago; Apples == artsy-craftsy. I know very little about them. Nobody ever wanted to pay me to develop software for Apple devices nad I was never curious enough to buy one. My experience with an iPod Shuffle and the iTunes app on Windows wasn't a glowing recommendation.