If you use the antonym to “hatred” in the first sentence, then for your response to make any sense at all, you need to use the antonym of “malicious” in the second sentence. A good choice would have been “benevolent”, but then your statement would be complimentary. But this is not what I think you intended.

Just parroting what others say, and changing words without understanding their meaning, only makes you look foolish and ignorant. ;-)

Whoever wrote that article needs to learn the history of microsoft.

I win.

You unclearly seem to be saying that you can’t upgrade Macs. That’s so 20th century. Macs are easy to upgrade. However, as Endless Mike points out, most people don’t upgrade their computers. They simply get new ones. Why? For the same reason most people don’t upgrade their cars with new engines. Too much trouble. They just get a new car.

The problem with the now-kitchy “i” prefix is not that Apple uses it. After all, Microsoft slaps their name on everything. No, the problem is that everyone else, from trashcans to web services to pencil sharpeners uses it. Everyone is trying to latch onto Apples (perceived) popularity. And it would seem that you’re too busy playing WOW in your mother’s basement to be worried about having any degree of popularity.

Apple has forced NOBODY to be iPod ready. Not one person. Not one group. Not one corporation. You, sir, are a liar.

Apple doesn’t force anyone to buy their products or upgrade. You, sir, are a liar.

You’re angry with your claim that Apple is trying to make money–what you call forcing “money into their pockets.” Making money is capitalism, and here you say you are against it. However earlier, you say you are in favor of “a true capitalistic American” way. You, sir, are a hypocrite.

So you’re a liar and a hypocrite.

Look. If you don’t like Apple, that’s fine. Just say so. But coming up with absurd, contradictory, hypocrisy and lies just makes you look bad.

Oh, and Rev, Apple doesn’t make a MacBook for $2,000. Perhaps you mean a MacBook Pro and you’re just ignorant. If you do mean a MacBook Pro, you should know that 1) unlike the Dell you mention, the MBP is made for a different consumer, and 2) the “fully loaded” Dell you mention has features that barely equal the lowest, entry level MBP! Sure, a Yugo is cheaper than a Ford Mustang and a Mustang is cheaper than a Ferrari. If you want a Yugo, enjoy! But you should be embarrassed by your ignorance that you have placed out for all to see.

And laugh at you.

Apple is the most pompous company on the planet. Hell, the company can’t even limit itself to only naming ONE aspect of its business “genius”. You have the “genius” employees, and the “genius” iTunes software. I bet next we’re going to get the “divine” version of OS X.

I bet Jobs really does consider himself God. Those directly below him are Jesus/Mohammad/your choice, the people below them are the patron saints. Everyone else at the company is a lowly genius.

Apple sells a product, they can price it at what they want. Look to any other industries and there is always a high and a low. Do you want to buy a North Face jacket or a Columbia? Wear Levis or Diesel?

Also…Apple is both a hardware and software manufacture where as Microsoft just produces software so I am not sure how you can even compare the two.

There is a significant difference in design between Apple and any of the hardware manufacturers. This is added value people are willing to pay for obviously.

Finally, as someone mentioned previously…most PC users do not upgrade their machine as they don’t know how and to be honest in the long run you end up spending more upgrading every few months rather than just waiting 2-3 years to get a new machine. Further, the majority of machines that are sold these days are notebooks so that point is moot anyways considering there are very few upgrades you can do to a notebook beyond adding ram and maybe swapping out for a larger drive but how many people are doing that?

I thought I was done, but there is one more point here. Apple revolutionized the way we listen to music for better or worse. Don’t for a second try to tell me that the ipod is not the best product on the market for playing mp3s. Any success they have enjoyed because of the ipod is well deserved because it is better than anything else out there. If you disagree to this you either only listen to vinyl or just have a hate on for anything apple.

Let’s be fair here. Aside from some of the facts not being too accurate as mentioned, the main point that any sensible person can get out of this letter is Jobs/Apple loves to empty your wallet. What they do is synonymous to a gas station charging 50 cents more than the other one right across the street while saying they have “special” additives that give you better fuel milage. The price to performance ratio of a Mac is really ridiculously high compared to a PC (ex: anyone could buy a fully loaded Dell XPS 1530, get a faster Intel processor, more RAM, larger HDD, and still pay less than what a $2000 MacBook). If you still want to use OSX, its really not that hard to get it to run on duel boot along side Windows, if your into that kind of thing.

Microsoft has received a lot of attention for its dominance over the past decade, but its starting to give in. Apple and Google are the next in line to get slapped with a host of lawsuits for their monopolistic control on their products, probably not by US, rather from the European Union cracking down hard on them just like they did with Microsoft.