Comments on: Well of course there’s an Apple Tax! http://johnwilker.com/2008/10/well-of-course-theres-an-apple-tax/ John Wilker: Community, Code, Randomness Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:39:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Wilker http://johnwilker.com/2008/10/well-of-course-theres-an-apple-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 John Wilker Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:45:06 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Well-of-course-theres-an-Apple-Tax#comment-1058 @Jake, LOL You're right. I'll fix that! @Dan, yup I hear you. He was definitely engaging in FUD (i think it's called) with little fact or actual information to back it. @Jeff good points. yes using a desktop keeps your data more in your hands. Who knows to what end google puts it. As a test that they're reading. Have some one email a gmail account with the body of "Grandma passed away yesterday" or something. Gmail won't serve ads in that message. They read 'em for sure. My beef with desktop apps (and I use mail.app for EUI mail) is that if I want to get it at an internet cafe, or from my wife's computer etc. Either I can't or I have to use a really crappy webmail version of exchange. I do keep all of my anti goverment plotting strictly to my anonymized email, just in case, LOL @Jake,

LOL You're right. I'll fix that!

@Dan,

yup I hear you. He was definitely engaging in FUD (i think it's called) with little fact or actual information to back it.

@Jeff

good points. yes using a desktop keeps your data more in your hands. Who knows to what end google puts it. As a test that they're reading. Have some one email a gmail account with the body of "Grandma passed away yesterday" or something. Gmail won't serve ads in that message. They read 'em for sure.

My beef with desktop apps (and I use mail.app for EUI mail) is that if I want to get it at an internet cafe, or from my wife's computer etc. Either I can't or I have to use a really crappy webmail version of exchange.

I do keep all of my anti goverment plotting strictly to my anonymized email, just in case, LOL

]]> By: Jeffry Houser http://johnwilker.com/2008/10/well-of-course-theres-an-apple-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Jeffry Houser Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:45:06 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Well-of-course-theres-an-Apple-Tax#comment-1059 I saw the same article and thought it pointless at best. Yes, if you switch from PC to Mac you may have to get new / different software. What that constitutes news is beyond me. Beyond that, I use a desktop mail client. I believe all web mail clients suck (that includes gmail and Yahoo mail which are the ones I am most familiar with ). I'm no expert on the subject, but I thought there were some privacy concerns regarding gmail. If memory serves me the gist is that Google keeps copies of everything even if you delete it. The Communication Decency Act makes all e-mail "non-private" after 3 months. If push comes to shove, Google has a personal searchable, easily subpoena-able database on you I saw the same article and thought it pointless at best. Yes, if you switch from PC to Mac you may have to get new / different software. What that constitutes news is beyond me.

Beyond that, I use a desktop mail client. I believe all web mail clients suck (that includes gmail and Yahoo mail which are the ones I am most familiar with ).

I'm no expert on the subject, but I thought there were some privacy concerns regarding gmail. If memory serves me the gist is that Google keeps copies of everything even if you delete it. The Communication Decency Act makes all e-mail "non-private" after 3 months. If push comes to shove, Google has a personal searchable, easily subpoena-able database on you

]]> By: Dan Skaggs http://johnwilker.com/2008/10/well-of-course-theres-an-apple-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-1060 Dan Skaggs Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:45:06 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Well-of-course-theres-an-Apple-Tax#comment-1060 I read that article a couple days ago and had to stop mid-way through because the crap he was spewing was severely ticking me off. Sounds to me like a MS flunky (albeit a highly-paid MS flunky if he's a VP) trying to make his OS look better by painting only a part of the picture of the competition. Our household ran across that line in the sand last year and I'm absolutely glad we did. I read that article a couple days ago and had to stop mid-way through because the crap he was spewing was severely ticking me off. Sounds to me like a MS flunky (albeit a highly-paid MS flunky if he's a VP) trying to make his OS look better by painting only a part of the picture of the competition. Our household ran across that line in the sand last year and I'm absolutely glad we did.

]]> By: John Wilker http://johnwilker.com/2008/10/well-of-course-theres-an-apple-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-116 John Wilker Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Well-of-course-theres-an-Apple-Tax#comment-116 @Jake, LOL You're right. I'll fix that! @Dan, yup I hear you. He was definitely engaging in FUD (i think it's called) with little fact or actual information to back it. @Jeff good points. yes using a desktop keeps your data more in your hands. Who knows to what end google puts it. As a test that they're reading. Have some one email a gmail account with the body of "Grandma passed away yesterday" or something. Gmail won't serve ads in that message. They read 'em for sure. My beef with desktop apps (and I use mail.app for EUI mail) is that if I want to get it at an internet cafe, or from my wife's computer etc. Either I can't or I have to use a really crappy webmail version of exchange. I do keep all of my anti goverment plotting strictly to my anonymized email, just in case, LOL @Jake,

LOL You’re right. I’ll fix that!

@Dan,

yup I hear you. He was definitely engaging in FUD (i think it’s called) with little fact or actual information to back it.

@Jeff

good points. yes using a desktop keeps your data more in your hands. Who knows to what end google puts it. As a test that they’re reading. Have some one email a gmail account with the body of "Grandma passed away yesterday" or something. Gmail won’t serve ads in that message. They read ‘em for sure.

My beef with desktop apps (and I use mail.app for EUI mail) is that if I want to get it at an internet cafe, or from my wife’s computer etc. Either I can’t or I have to use a really crappy webmail version of exchange.

I do keep all of my anti goverment plotting strictly to my anonymized email, just in case, LOL

]]> By: Jeffry Houser http://johnwilker.com/2008/10/well-of-course-theres-an-apple-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Jeffry Houser Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Well-of-course-theres-an-Apple-Tax#comment-115 I saw the same article and thought it pointless at best. Yes, if you switch from PC to Mac you may have to get new / different software. What that constitutes news is beyond me. Beyond that, I use a desktop mail client. I believe all web mail clients suck (that includes gmail and Yahoo mail which are the ones I am most familiar with ). I'm no expert on the subject, but I thought there were some privacy concerns regarding gmail. If memory serves me the gist is that Google keeps copies of everything even if you delete it. The Communication Decency Act makes all e-mail "non-private" after 3 months. If push comes to shove, Google has a personal searchable, easily subpoena-able database on you I saw the same article and thought it pointless at best. Yes, if you switch from PC to Mac you may have to get new / different software. What that constitutes news is beyond me.

Beyond that, I use a desktop mail client. I believe all web mail clients suck (that includes gmail and Yahoo mail which are the ones I am most familiar with ).

I'm no expert on the subject, but I thought there were some privacy concerns regarding gmail. If memory serves me the gist is that Google keeps copies of everything even if you delete it. The Communication Decency Act makes all e-mail "non-private" after 3 months. If push comes to shove, Google has a personal searchable, easily subpoena-able database on you

]]> By: Jake Munson http://johnwilker.com/2008/10/well-of-course-theres-an-apple-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Jake Munson Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Well-of-course-theres-an-Apple-Tax#comment-114 At the top of your post you said this was a CNN article. I had read a similar article on cnet a couple of days ago, so I figured Microsoft was making the rounds with this propaganda. However, then I saw that one of the interview quotes you pasted contained a question from the interviewer that was the same question as the cnet interview. Then I noticed that the article really was the same article that I read, and that you meant to say cnet instead of cnn. :) At the top of your post you said this was a CNN article. I had read a similar article on cnet a couple of days ago, so I figured Microsoft was making the rounds with this propaganda. However, then I saw that one of the interview quotes you pasted contained a question from the interviewer that was the same question as the cnet interview. Then I noticed that the article really was the same article that I read, and that you meant to say cnet instead of cnn. :)

]]> By: Dan Skaggs http://johnwilker.com/2008/10/well-of-course-theres-an-apple-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Dan Skaggs Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.johnwilker.com/j/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Well-of-course-theres-an-Apple-Tax#comment-113 I read that article a couple days ago and had to stop mid-way through because the crap he was spewing was severely ticking me off. Sounds to me like a MS flunky (albeit a highly-paid MS flunky if he's a VP) trying to make his OS look better by painting only a part of the picture of the competition. Our household ran across that line in the sand last year and I'm absolutely glad we did. I read that article a couple days ago and had to stop mid-way through because the crap he was spewing was severely ticking me off. Sounds to me like a MS flunky (albeit a highly-paid MS flunky if he’s a VP) trying to make his OS look better by painting only a part of the picture of the competition. Our household ran across that line in the sand last year and I’m absolutely glad we did.

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