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Mark Pilgrim<\/a> has written a now-dugg post on the iphone, and how people should learn to stop buying products from Apple in the hopes that they will get a clue and truly open them up. <\/p>\n

Although the blog post is nice, I prefer the simplicity of his delicious comment<\/a>:
\n“Doctor, it hurts when I buy Apple products.” <\/p>\n

The punchline, for those that don’t recognize the joke: “Then don’t do that.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Or take the digg comments<\/a> when Steve Jobs took X+200$ from people for an iphone, then gave them 100$ back so they can spend it at the Apple store. Commenters were falling over themselves praising Apple for doing the right thing, even though customers have still spent X+200$ at Apple, and the only thing Apple loses is the equivalent of a few months iphone subscription revenue. My response: “Thank you sir may I have another!” <\/p>\n

Similarly, I often describe buying a Mac as a deal with the devil. You get the best-available computing experience money can buy, but you’ll have to put up with Steven P. Jobs’ odd whims — some of which cost money18-month 129$ charges for OS upgrades, plus money for simple utilities that should be free<\/footnote>, others of which just make you mad“Why do I have to buy the expensive laptop to get it in black?”<\/footnote>, some of which screw you over“you mean this device that worked with my ipod two days ago doesn’t work now because it doesn’t have a chip from apple?”<\/footnote>.<\/p>\n

But I think the most apt analogy for Apple and its users is the abusive relationship. Apple will slap you around and beat you up, but it’ll always come back with a bouquet of flowers and promise that this time things’ll be different.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/p>\n

Now apparently Apple is saying “I’ll buy you a bouquet of flowers, and you can choose the flowers, but only if I think they go with the drapes.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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