From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

badgolferman wrote:

*The day Apple finally told the truth for once*

Guess how long it would be?
:)

Considering your propensity for words and details, I imagine it could
be several hundered pages. And if the book still seems too small then
you could have the publisher use bigger font and thicker pages so
people feel like they're getting their money's worth.

I really should write. I could write a book that could, in the short term, shave a few percentage points off of Apple's profits just by publishing it.

It would simply be named "The Truth About Apple Products".

Of course, I could write that book about Google/Microsoft too, but they're different in that nobody expects them to be this all mighty powerful God.

Right now I'm teaching a pool-chemistry class at the local recreation dept. Almost everything homeowners think about pool chemistry, is dead wrong.

For example, almost all homeowners think that they have to add acid to counteract the chlorine bleach being highly basic, but that's just wrong.

Also, almost every homeowner thinks you have to get rid of the phosphorous
or that you have to shock to prevent algal blooms, but that's also wrong.

But the biggest thing homeowners don't get is that the pH has almost
nothing to do with how well chlorine works in their outdoor pools.

The pH could be 8.5 and it would barely make a dent in how well the
chlorine works, and yet, every single pool store will tell them otherwise.

Why?
Why can't people think?

My real book should be that.
*What is wrong with people that they can't think?*

An example in the car industry is people think electric vehicles don't
pollute, and especially that they don't pollute greenhouse gases.

And yet, as you drive that EV off the dealer's lot next to someone who is driving an ICE off the dealers lot, the truth is the EV polluted more GHG.

For decades, I've been asking people at the pump, seemingly innocently,
"What's the difference between the premium & regular" and in decades of
asking that same question, I've only gotten the correct answer a handful of times.

It's like Chris telling me the SARS-COV2 genome is tiny, when it's not.
It's like nospam telling me Apple is efficient with RAM when it's not.

Speaking of nospam, I miss him, even as I despised his unprepossessing personality in that he doesn't flinch when it comes to defending Apple.

That's the one thing that has been different for decades on Apple ngs.

With you or me or Alan Browne or JF Mezei or Michelle Steiner or David
Empson or anyone else on it, Apple newsgroups are not normal newsgroups.

Apple newsgroups are religious newsgroups.
They're not based on facts. But on religion.

It took me years to figure out why Apple owners say the things they do.
The reality dawned on me when I went on a half-day hike with neighbors.

All the Apple owners insisted their phone could do what it can't do.
They actually *believed* that the iPhone could do what Android does.

And yet, it can't.
It doesn't.
It never will.

Why not?
Apple profits.

Sigh.
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Don't even get me started on how much Google lies to people also.
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