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Hank Rogers[_2_]

wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 19:29:55 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mon 26 Feb 2018 11:35:54a, Ophelia told us...
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "dsi1" wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>> On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 11:39:00 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ==
>>>>
>>>> Oh boy! You are really taking me back ... !
>>>
>>> Those were heady days for sure. Then came PCs and all that
>>> entails. I see it as kind of an ordeal. I still occasionally have
>>> to mess with port settings to get my old-timey peripherals to
>>> function. OTOH, those 25 years or so of IBM PC and clones, in the
>>> scope of things, won't matter much. The real revolution came with
>>> the introduction of the iPhone a little over a decade ago. It has
>>> changed our society in almost every way forever.
>>>
>>> ===
>>>
>>> I don't have an iPhone My 'oldish' phone is Android It's
>>> all I need
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I, too, have an android phone and I see no particular advantage to
>> having an I-phone. Likewise, I see no particular advantage to have
>> any Apple product over other brands or operating systems. I have
>> used both.
>
> Seems silly to me to pay more for an apple somebody already bit a
> chunk of (basd grammar)
>

Yep, but I always thought their symbol should have been an apple with a
bite out of it on one side, and half a worm crawling out the other side.

Apple has always been the greediest of any suppliers of computing equipment.