[quakerotis]

Apple isn't a religion? Well, who's is cashing all those checks I leave in the collection plate every Sunday?

[ScottHines3ku0]

MMM
The iBible. Apple could redesign the Bible. Talk about remaking an industry. Using its Authoring software an interactive Bible could be made that would use interactive features that would work like the iPad. It could sprinkle water and baptize babies, heal the sick and cast out android demons from devices like the iPad and iPhone. It would save the world from the Android AntiChrist Samsung.

[ScottHines3ku0]

Oh, yeah, send me your tithe.

[ingus]

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Religion? Maps fiasco? Gimme' a break! Anybody with "half a brain", a category of people in which Heidi Moore clearly belongs, knows that Steve Jobs was a time traveller from the future (... of course he's from the future, silly, we haven't discovered time travel yet). That being clearly established, Apple Maps was not a fiasco but an untimely look into the future. Missing buildings and collapsed bridges? Personally, I wouldn't take any chances and would avoid those locations. Towns, points of interest and airports not represented in their current locations? Ever heard of tectonic plate movements? Just like in hockey, where you don't skate towards the puck but towards where the puck is going to be, such is Apple Maps. Just maybe a little bit ahead of its time though.

At the tectonic plate speed of about 1 inch per year (8.33 yards per century) it would take about 100 years to be outside civilian GPS's capabilities at it's current resolution. Hardly an excuse for bad location data, but it's okay, I'll wait.

[Panglos]

For decades we saw the minions buy the dominant OS in droves, despite the fact that its motto might as well have been "It's from Microsoft. It doesn't have to be good." Those were the REAL faithful.

Here, as in the political realm, we witness the phenomenon of projection. When people can't face their own behavior they see it in others instead, thereby creating a "best defense is a strong offense" strategy. That's how you put up with decades of crap, defending and rationalizing to the end, then taunt endlessly about one misstep in one app from the alternative camp—never mind failing to notice how it affects the alleged "religion" in a way it would never affect a real religion, or your own.

[ingus]

Panglos, on 04 March 2013 - 08:17 AM, said:

For decades we saw the minions buy the dominant OS in droves, despite the fact that its motto might as well have been "It's from Microsoft. It doesn't have to be good." Those were the REAL faithful.

Here, as in the political realm, we witness the phenomenon of projection. When people can't face their own behavior they see it in others instead, thereby creating a "best defense is a strong offense" strategy. That's how you put up with decades of crap, defending and rationalizing to the end, then taunt endlessly about one misstep in one app from the alternative camp—never mind failing to notice how it affects the alleged "religion" in a way it would never affect a real religion, or your own.

Oh, I don't know. Though I agree with you on much of what you said, most aren't willful prisoners. Market forces are at play. If you use M$ at work/school, you use it at home too (most likely). Also, it's not like that platform doesn't have it's advantages, again due to market realities.

[gonzobonzo]

Not "excommunicated" either. Rather she ought to have compared Forstall's ouster the casting out of Heaven of Lucifer.

[ingus]

I wasn't going to comment on the "religious stuff" until this happened...

http://www.macworld....to-android.html

Read through some of these comments (as of now 12 pages of them) and you'd wish you can take this one back. Some comments even contain direct religious references.
If it's not a religion, it's certainly a political party. All the drama and intrigue...deceit, betrayal, ideological purity, inclusion, exclusion, they're all in there.

I did mention you as a "silver lining" though.

This post has been edited by ingus: 07 March 2013 - 08:59 AM