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nubbins`: "i didn't put the razor in the apple, i just gave it to the kid"
nubbins`: cajoled apple into fixing it for free, later realized that the bottom of the port had a bunch of impacted lint
ozbot: iPhone 5 phones destroyed in protest against Apple's anti-Bitcoin actions
nubbins`: tat had it right, if he really wanted to stick it to apple, he would have sold his phone ;p
nubbins`: "really sending a message to apple here"
nubbins`: that'll show apple
ThickAsThieves: i'm so bad at Apple I refuse to reproduce!
ThickAsThieves: itd hurt apple way more to sell it secondhand
Diablo-D3: hurting apple doesnt even make sense
nubbins`: "know what'll hurt apple? if i smash my on-contract phone that they've already been paid for, in full"
kakobrekla: apple makes more monies.
nubbins`: there's a steady push towards an apple device being a device of consumption rather than production
nubbins`: old apple was before my time
asciilifeform: in the '90s, i never imagined i'd miss the 'old apple'
BingoBoingo: Apple died in 1984 replaced by Macintosh
asciilifeform: replaced by Next. (with name changed to 'apple')
asciilifeform: apple died in '99.
pankkake: interestingly, apple does not review the code of the app
pankkake: that never works with Apple
ThickAsThieves: god forbid Apple has a good reason
nubbins`: so it seems the inturnet is really upset about apple pulling blockchain.info from the app store, hey?
mircea_popescu: maybe derpland has a bumper apple crop and herpfields a shortage.
mircea_popescu: why do you expect they do anything to any one apple ?
nubbins`: i don't know how much apple i get, that's what's wrong
nubbins`: or derpdollars where it's cheaper to buy the apple today
nubbins`: say, herpcoins where it's cheaper to buy an apple tomorrow than today
nubbins`: apple
nubbins`: apple phone support has looked up my info and suddenly has no problems with a free replacement
nubbins`: apple
asciilifeform: sad fact is, if you want, for one reason or another, a portable unix box with a metal chassis and working suspend mode & peripherals, you're stuck with apple.
mircea_popescu: what was her name, peaches, rosy, eve ? something with apple in it maybe.
mircea_popescu: apple gets this the other way around : the SHOW itself wants to gain value from the association.
mircea_popescu: this is strictly because apple had at the helm for a decade+ a person who actually understood how worthless advertising is, and just told the horde to get fucked
mircea_popescu: decimation apple has unmatched strengths in marketing and advertising
nubbins`: anyway, apple hardware is well-designed visually, sure
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps it's proof that apple hardware is not well designed.
decimation: I guess that the serious lack of non-Apple competition for well-designed hardware (ie, not just Apple clones) is proof that no major electronics manufacturer is well managed
nubbins`: apple keyboards are a joy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most recent portables have 'apple' style 'dollar store calculator' keyboards.
decimation: before the apple junk dominated, there was actually some differentiation in the marketplace amoung android devices
benkay: well look asciilifeform there's digikey, there's a 3d printer, and there's a mess of hardware out there. nobody's going to mass-produce a *nix laptop but Apple, and we can't use theirs. the solution is to cobble our own together.
asciilifeform: everybody hates apple but nobody lifts a finger to birth a half-decent unix laptop
dub: I've been hilariously quipping that its more useful than the apple product to all the apple fanboys here
mircea_popescu: then you fight on the apple pie
decimation: Ascii, have you considered that the insecurity of MS (and apple) crapware now justifies the Pentagon's budgets?
asciilifeform: apple is the 'good cop' in a classic 'good cop / bad cop' number.
asciilifeform: never forget why MS bailed out apple in the '90s.
decimation: that's the obvious next step for apple to take
kakobrekla: reminds of apple too much.
mircea_popescu: (real encryption. you'll have to use apple/google/ms/w/e)
mircea_popescu: even apple or amazon could do it, if they weren't fucktarded.
deadweasel: perish*ing*, no? if we are speaking of the apple in the bag and the present moment, we have no perished.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I wan't until the IPOD IIGS that Apple tried that.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Only off by a few decades. When he was kicked out of netBSD Computer to me meant the spider trap Apple II+ in the basement.
BingoBoingo: If I cared then about what I do nao I prolly would have picked up an Apple II GS or 8
nubbins`: "even Fuctapple can’t fuck up a browser to the degree it breaks the web." <-- quite the opposite, apple played a large part in turning webkit into the beauty it is today
BingoBoingo: Making Dave might be a fun project though. Dunno how I'm going to get Apple II machine code to talk to a modern IRC bot.
ozbot: Looking for Apple iOS/OSX experts - Bounty: 15BTC
asciilifeform: Vexual: about the same as apple's ipnohe-4.
twizt: some people are all about apple, im all about lenovo haha
benkay: just get her an apple, nubbins`. you'll be so much less burdened with tech support...
mircea_popescu: Apple
ozbot: The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone - Forbes
ThickAsThieves: Apple stores would be perfect
mircea_popescu: i don't think apple for instance would have a problem with making a system that doesn't work with any computing hardware in the world.
Vexual: well im not in a hurry for apple to take bitcoin off ignore
mircea_popescu: what's apple gonna do, come here and bitch ?
mircea_popescu: i seen the future and there's no apple in it.
kanzure: the reason that apple doesn't want cryptocurrencies on ios is related to mobile payments and their own ios5 wallet system
kanzure: i think bitcoin people will make a patent defense fund and nuke apple from orbit instead
benkay: a friend and i came up with an amusing scenario where the refusal to play with bitcoin drives apple out of the mobile game
benkay: although if apple gets their way with the jailed platforms one won't be able to actually run a bitcoin client on any OS X instance.
mircea_popescu: apple stuff is about half price
ThickAsThieves: it actually works fine on the apple w7 setup
Duffer1: so apple running win7 w/ fire wire issue?
Duffer1: oh apple i know not
ThickAsThieves: but Apple-fied
thestringpuller: nubbins`: you mean apple
mircea_popescu: in practice it makes no difference anwyay, whether you actually pay it out or just keep it in the bank, because in the latter case the share just trades as a proxy of your cash (see apple)
nubbins`: but i mean, web wallets seem like the obvious solution to apple's bitcoin app ban
pankkake: the apple of bitcoin exchanges
deadweasel: i mean, at least read the manual for the lava apple pc
mircea_popescu: 't want apple telling me how to "safely" use my computer,
mircea_popescu: apple doesn't repatriate it's currency holdings. nobody else is. there's literally nothing there, you can steal the real estate if you wish the hassle of running it
nubbins`: lel, samsung owes apple $1b fine, starts delivering it to apple hq in dump trucks full of nickels
deadweasel: giant acorn squash stuffed with apple pear wild rice bacon carmelized onion..... not sure if I should add cheese?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves at the rate the us economy is going, an apple will be a scam in dollars soon enough.
mircea_popescu: because someone once bought an apple.
pankkake: "Bitcoin without Satoshi is like Apple without Jobs" :|
mircea_popescu: apple makes aerons ?
pankkake: everything apple makes is part of the conspiracy to slowly physically weaken humans
truffles: thinking of making some apple pie
Namworld: It's like chalkboard to some people. The crunch of crude apple is excrutiating.
pankkake: oh, so you like apple. i was like http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/108/5/9/mad_applejack_by_jennieoo-d4wlp3m.png
dub: and shitheels will lap it up like a bunch of apple users
mircea_popescu: (not whole apples, of course. apple paste)
dub: of course they wont last more than a few minutes on the timescale of apple's history
jurov: http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/10/22/how-chinas-xiaomi-does-in-a-week-what-apple-does-in-a-year-update-devices/
nubbins`: i'm sure there's a bot in an apple chan somewhere that screams MAGICAL DEVICE! every time someone says "magical"
pankkake: then the guy found a job at Apple