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In all honesty, it’s because theVerge are doing a piss-poor job of moderating, and banning the biggest offenders. I’ve seen posters with literally hundreds of troll posts, who mudsling in every thread, comment dozens of times per article, lower the level of discourse, keep getting flagged, yet they’re still around and posting happily. It’s sad the Verge just doesn’t care about keeping a higher standard for the comments. In no time it will be identical to Engadget.

I love how as soon as Apple comes out with a new style that everyone then apes, the ‘there are only so many form factors’ excuse comes out. So it just so happened Apple figured out the right one everytime? The iPhone, iPad, Aluminum Macbook, Macbook Air, etc are now the templates for almost all other devices out there. Howcome nobody else figures it out first? No, it’s just laziness and a lack of motivation to innovate from these companies. It’s difficult to believe all these Air clones would exist as they are today if they Air itself didn’t exist. Same with smartphone and tablet designs.

Yeah..no. I’d rather Apple continue to do what it’s doing than to just turn around and ape metro.

Eh, I doubt it. This ‘Apple is overpriced’ meme is insanely outdated. Most of Apple’s products are extremely competitive with anything else out there, and even a better value. Find me any other manufacturer can can put out a tablet with the iPad’s resolution, build quality, etc for $499. It’s not possible. Find me a Macbook Air equivalent for the same price with no other compromises. Same thing. Apple products are affordable considering what you’re getting.

I love how intelligent, reasoned, and well-thought out the posts in this thread (and forum) are. Such a stark different to the comments sections after regular articles, where 80% of the posts are either trolling or pure stupidity.

You have absolutely no idea if Nelson ‘knows’ h’es using a stolen phone, nor if he’s the person that took it. Your list of ‘what we do knows’ is all horse-shit, if you don’t mind me saying. What if someone else found it and sold it to him? What if Nelson found it, gave it in to security, then got it back after X # of days after noone claimed it, which is standard company policy? You’re assuming so many things to put this guy in the worst light possible, as expected, without a shred of facts. Sure, ‘legally’ they’re her photos I guess. My argument was from the moral perspective, and that shit Katy seems like a shitty person with a shitty moral compass.

Yeah, it’s hilarious to publically post private photos of strangers and call them sluts and whores. Comedy gold.

Why do they look like d-bags? Oh I get it, you decided to hate a bunch of random people because you randomly associated them with some alleged wrong-doing. How lovely.

This has nothing to do with a sense of humor. I for one wouldnt have the stomach to publically post provate photos of the innocent and mock them, because it wouldnt be right, and infringes on their privacy. If I find it ‘funny’ that her phone was stolen, does that actually make it funny? Maybe you find the mocking of that girl in the photos funny, but I doubt she would, and its pretty damn vicious and insensitive.

Yeah, because leaving vile comments on his girlfriends (if thats even what she is) page, who has nothing to do with this, and attacking her is so cool. right? Ah the beauty of mob mentality.

ie. what did that girl in the photos do to the owner so that she deserves to be mocked, derided, and her photos publically posted and shared? I love when the internet hoard is so set on ‘retribution’ they become blind to everything else. If this Katy had a sense of class and was actually a decent person, she would only post photos with the guy she “thinks” stole her phone in them, and not photos of others. Shows why she’s doing this, and the purity (or lack thereof) of her intentions.

I’m going against the internet mob mentality and ‘mob justice’ here, but I don’t approve of this at all. I don’t see what she’s doing as any less worse than this guy allegedly ‘stealing’ (if it was actually stolen, she doesnt go into details).

Why is it cool to publically post every photo taken, and invade the privacy of everyone in those photos who have absolutely nothing to do with the phone? Do we have evidence that this is the person who stole the phone? What if it was sold to him, and he was unaware? Also, the guy is obviously not technically inclined at all, otherwise he would have instantly disabled the account. What makes everyone think he has the means to get the phone to the owner, or even inform her? If he couldn’t be bothered to delete the iCloud account, then I doubt he’s able to use any other functions of the phone. Also, it’s a cruise ship, which gets customers from all over the world, not exactly a campus library or something where there’s a god chance the person is still in the vicinity.

I don’t know the answers to any of these questions, but neither does anyone else here. Yet, everyone is so quick to paint this guy as the worst evil imaginable, villanizing hin, and slobbering over the possibility of destroying his life, his job, relationships, etc. I’ve seen these kinds of stories before where the target actually turned out to be the victim when the facts were fully revealed, or at least nor near as guilty of the crimes everyone instantly concluded they were. In my view, publicizing private photos, infringing on the privacy of every in them, and mocking them is worse than even the alleged crime. If this happened to me I don’t think I can stomach doing what this Katy is doing, but I guess she’s proving everyone with entertainment which is the only thing that matters. At this point its more attention whoring, narcissism, etc than actually desperately wanting her phone back. She was on a cruise, so I doubt she’s strapped for cash and can get a new phone instead of continuing to mock and invade the privacy of strangers who have done nothing to her, but hey, that would spoil all the fun, right?

The ugly beats branding gives it away. Seriously, how many orange dots do we need? Isn’t one enough? Just in that pic there’s 2 extremely conspicuously ones, + the beats txt on the bezel. Awesome.

Hmm.. Of the 70 or so people I personally know that own iPhones, not a single one of them is a ‘hipster’ or barrista. But hey, don’t let me stop you from spouting tired troll lines.

Yes, because microwaves are a relevant analogy to a mobile OS. How brilliant of you.

Yeah, cause who needs an optimized experience? According to tech nerds on message boards, its not that important. According to real people, the answer is obvious. A very small number of optimized options always succeeds better than a massive number of unoptimized ones.

‘These guys have no idea what actual software development is actually like. For this you truly need to look beyond the closed box that is Objective-C, Cocoa, and look out into the world of real languages. These guys won’t have the mindset to code natively in C/C++, for widely adopted frameworks such as .NET, utilizing modern languages like C#. They will not be able to write cross platform code using Java, and hence their inherent hate for Android (of course that is just a side reason for hating, we all know what the real reasons are).’

So much fail in those statements, don’t even know where to begin. The icing on the cake is how the poster idolizes Stallman. Yes, the ’I’m glad Steve Jobs is dead’, ‘I will never use a cell phone so the gvt cant track me’, and ‘I eat stuff from between my toes while giving lectures’ Stallman. Tells you all you need to know about the poster.

Yeah this whole animation had more to do with Green PR than actually educating someone as to what actually happens when you send an email. I get they want to push that, but it was a bit heavy handed and eye-rollingly self-promotional. Got a bad taste in my mouth after the 20th HEY BY THE WAY WE’RE SO GREEN slide.

*was replying to bahumbug if it wasnt obvious.

In my experience, those accusing others of being fanboys are ideological fanatics themselves. Look at how he’s basically coming up with horse-shit to justify his hard-headed, false opinion, then pre-empts anyone who would dare disagree with him by calling everyone a fanboy. Apple included that mathematical slide in their iPad3 presentation just for you, but naturally you’re too thick to understand it. Do you also think a 50" TV should have a 326PPI to be considered retina? That’s exactly what you’re saying. Apple’s decision making process for the iPhone4 resolution was based on quadrupling the resolution, which ended up being 326ppi, and not the other way around. Same with the ipad. They’re not gonna come up with some weird resolution just to satisfy a random PPI. What they did was the only logical and reasonable thing they could do, and only someone was clearly irrational as you can’t comprehend that.

Which is why my MBA always overheats when I use the Adobe Suite heavily for hours a day, edit 1GB+ PSD+Illustrator files, do HD video editing, etc..

Oh wait, it doesn’t. Better luck next time.

*vast majority.

Meh. I think anyone using a Macbook Pro in an office environment can aford a $30 dongle, and if the laptop is hooked up to ethernet, it means its not mobile anyway and having a dongle attached will add zero inconvenience. Also, all office environments I’ve been in the past couple years have had a separate wireless network for mobile devices.

For the rest of us, that are not in that very specific niche, getting rid of the ethernet port will be a benefit, as they will not be forced to make design/thickness compromises simply to support a port that the cast majority of owners of the product will never ever touch.

To be fair, even high end gpus will struggle trying to render complex scenes/effect at that resolution (2048×1536)

Their most popular laptops models are less than HALF that price, and the only thing approaching $2500 is their 17" MBP model that almost nobody buys. But hey, the LOL $2500 APPLE LAPTOPS is popular troll line so no need to worry about things like facts.

You aware there’s a ton of other companies that have laptops in the $2500+ range too? Of course not.

When do you need windows? Serious question. There’s a 99% chance that whatever tool/app you need in windows, there’s OSX equivalents that do similar or better job. I used to have a bootcamp partition, ended up deleting that and running Win in a VM, and recently deleted that too cause I realized I simply did not need it for anything anymore. I use a wide range of programs including the entire Adobe suite, photo, video, and audio editing tools, conversion tools, and a myriad of different software, and there isn’t a single thing I can’t do in OSX.

Yup. most tech-sotes are infected with anti-apple trolling, and anyone who dares say anything about an apple product is based and ridiculed to hell and back. Sure, alot of people like apple products, but I don’t see them insulting and attacking people as anti-apple fanatics do, with such hate and vitriol. The ‘fanboy’ attack is a strawman erected to mock and ridicule. Apparently, because I happen to purchase apple products based on my experience with them I’m a worshipper, cultist, fanboy, sheep, brainwashed, etc. It’s nauseating.

9/10? Sounds like your friends of friends are absolute morons. Mac or no mac, I’d never bash what someone else is using in real life, no matter what it is. It’s childish, immature, disrespectful, and just plan rude. It’s like you’re trying to make the person feel like shit about a purchase, and it speaks about what kind of person you are much more than the person you’re attacking who’s using X product.

WHile you’re at it, mabe you should reassess your conventioanl wisdom of Apple relying on their fiercest competitor for one of their built in, most widely used, core apps on their most important platform. If anything is worth the investment to more fully control, this woud absolutely be it. Apple has no other choice at this point than to lower their dependence on Google. and it seems they realized that a long time ago.

Maybe you should email Apple and tell them how to better manage their company, seeing as how they clearly have no idea what they’re doing.