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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:56PM (#6988)

    A huge number of nerds own iDevices, and have since long before it was trendy to do so. Other nerds jumped on the iDevices bandwagon during the gold-rush era of the app-store. The original appeal of Apple devices was that it was different from what you used at work: "think different" was a successful ad campaign for a reason. Now that the hardware is popular we are expected to give it up as not different enough? What are we, hipsters?

    I develop for iDevices and used a MacBook for years until it met an unfortunate and untimely end. The fact that I feel the need to post anonymously is disheartening. I would love to see stories about the interesting things that are happening in the Apple sphere of technology without the warfare regarding personal preference shifting the discussion.

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  • (Score: 1) by forsythe on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:10PM

    by forsythe (831) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:10PM (#7523)

    I don't think it's just "Now that the hardware is popular." The Apple ][ machine was intended for very different usage than the latest Air is. If

    Sure, I'd like to know if Apple does something interesting, such as a significant reworking of Darwin or switching architectures again, etc. But I'm not so interested in the "Apple has released their 20XX line of laptops" or "Rumor says Apple will add three new colors to their phone lineup". I don't care about those stories when HP or Samsung are the companies in question, and I don't care about them when Apple is the company in question. And unfortunately, most "Apple news" is of that uninteresting sort.