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8. Had a Mac SE 30
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 01:46 PM
Jan 2013

Now that was a very good computer and I had a little inkjet printer to go with it and I managed to get an entire thesis written and printed on it. May it RIP.

Then went Jobs.

Then Apple turned into the WORST COMPUTER EVER in about 1998 or so. Sadly, I had one of them. It came freshly delivered from Apple with what I suspect was a dead motherboard; not sure.

I had to return the POS to the vendor and got hit for re-stocking fees even though it could not be re-stocked nor used by anyone. It had a woman walking out on to the desktop when you turned it on and you had to turn her off, that much I remember.

After that, I never wanted another Apple/MacIntosh computer.

Then came Jobs back with his very clever mind and he made Apple what it became.

However, Apple is not Apple without Jobs and if I owned Apple stock, I would have sold it when Jobs died. You now have a company being run by a bunch of "replacements" but none are Steve Jobs.

So, as for the iMac, iPad, iTouch, iPhone, iThis, iThat, I am not interested in any of these high tech very pricey toys which you need a new one of about every 6 mos. or so it seems to me iBelieve.

May Apple RIP.


So Apple sold 11 million more iPhones this quarter than it did in the same quarter a year ago? emulatorloo Jan 2013 #1
Except Apple was going out of business TM99 Jan 2013 #2
I'm still absolutely kicking myself sir pball Jan 2013 #3
I was a bit older then TM99 Jan 2013 #5
I still use their systems sir pball Jan 2013 #6
Had a Mac SE 30 CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #8
Could not agree more about the iProducts TM99 Jan 2013 #11
Yeah right. The iOS people are still there, Jonny Ives is still there emulatorloo Jan 2013 #20
And that's the problem right there TM99 Jan 2013 #22
Apple, lower your crazy high prices and maybe, MAYBE I would SoapBox Jan 2013 #4
Apple is down about 35% in four months. Xithras Jan 2013 #7
Yes and this was a "safe bet" CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #9
Meanwhile I'm netting 1k/mo on 35k invested with not a single loss taken to date dmallind Jan 2013 #10
Up 35% in 10 years CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #12
I've taken a more classic and time honored path toward retirement Xithras Jan 2013 #13
Yep, the stock market is for gamblers. And "analysts" are like panic stricken Chicken Littles emulatorloo Jan 2013 #21
OTOH, Netflix was up 42% today. n/t BadgerKid Jan 2013 #14
Aww, such a shame Canuckistanian Jan 2013 #15
That's a good description of their products fujiyama Jan 2013 #16
Toilet Tissue is littlemissmartypants Jan 2013 #19
I never owned an iphone Joel thakkar Jan 2013 #17
Microsoft is a hold/buy. n/t littlemissmartypants Jan 2013 #18
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