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The way I see it, Apple's marketing is more truthful because they actually make the better product. The marketing is usually a load of crap no matter what company you choose. Although... Apple has never made fun of other mp3 players in their iPod ads. It's only the Mac ads that are superior.

Devanshu, I agree with sjk, you should have mentioned Virtue because it's basically the new DM. However, DM I would like to point out that DM is not dead. The girlfriend of DM's programmer, Rich, is going to make DM a Universal Binary. http://filecoreinuse.livejournal.com/102653.html

I don't have time for a long list, but I'll try my best: 1. Expensive adaptors and cables (which you actually mentioned, Beeblebrox). I got a new Intel iMac, I want to hook up my VGA monitor. $20. What about if I get a DVI monitor? Another $20. This really isn't a big problem since most iMac users probably don't use extended desktop very much. As for the iPod video cable ... you're acting like it's a horrible, horrible business practice and they should go to hell. Get over it, it's just a cable. They charge a lot for accesories, it's an annoyence at best, 2. the iSight. $150 for a camera? I like the one included in my iMac, but I could live without it. I don't really use it much. 3. I wanted to get the 17" Intel iMac the day it got to the local Apple store. I called and they didn't have any. Then I called later that night asking for a waitlist. They told me they had some 17" iMacs, and they'd reserve one for me. I got there and they told me the iMacs were for the store to put on display. I just got an uninformed Apple rep on the phone. Of course, stupid people work everywhere and you can't help that. You know, I don't actually have very many arguements against Apple, I realize. certainally much less than any other company. So why does Apple get flamed? They make good computers and mp3 players, overall their customer service is good. Sorry, but I guess I don't have much major qualms with Apple at this point in time.

Those ARE upgrade prices. Every Mac comes with iLife and Mac OS X ... so if Apple wanted to throw away $20 for each updeage to Mac OS X, no one would get the "full" version" because either 1, Mac users already have a version of OS X, and 2, If you don't have a Mac, then you can't run OS X or iLife, then you buy a Mac and it already has OS X and iLife on it! Those prices are upgrades because virtually every Mac user has Mac OS X and iLife. Winows and Photoshop are different since they don't come always come automatically with computers like Macs come with OS X and iLife.

That $2000 is about the same price as a Dell Intel Duo laptop of comparible stats. This is only the start of the Intel laptops. They went high-end because releasing an Intel iBook faster than Powerbooks would be absurd. They're 6 months early, the iBook will definately be Intel by then. The only thing I found dissapointing was the name. MacBook Pro sounds so lame.

I think it's highly unlikely that iBooks would loose their FireWire port. As Chris Howard said, those conjectures/rumors are always based on the iPod losing it's FireWire. But the iPod is a product for Mac and PC users, and FireWire is undoubtably less popular on the PC side. Coupled with the iPod being popular with PC users .. it makes sense to drop FireWire from the iPod.

That was really funny James. I laughed a lot. Especially at numbers 5 to 10. Oh, and the Google one was spot on. I love it when people say something like, "Microsoft better get it's act together or Google will crush them." WTF. Microsoft doesn't even make the same products as Google does! All Google does is cache and catagorize stuff for searching, Microsoft can't even compete with their MSN search, and Google couldn't compete with a Google OS. And linux for the desktop? puhleez, that'll never happen. I've never tried compiling a linux app for a specific distro, but I bet it's hell. Oh, and I loved your bit about the iPod killers. I hate radio so much.