Yeah, pretty sure that won't happen and wouldn't want it to regardless.

Once upon a time there were 2 recording media... Beta and VHS.

The quite dramatically INFERIOR one won out....yes, thanks entirely to the PORN industry...

Windows rules.

When I see someone with an apple product I see someone who paid much more for much less than what I have. So starkers, get over the inferiority complex, and get on board the superiority mindset! Yay...

I highly doubt Apple will go out of business anytime soon. They have a good following of people and a company that makes a lot of money. I would venture to say Apple will be around to see the eventual fall or merging of Microsoft.

There were 3 recording media, actually!  There was also Video8, which was superior to both. I had a Video8 camera and a VCR with all the bells and whistles of Beta and VHS and more.  If I recorded TV shows on that the results were much crisper and clearer than both Beta and VHS.

Unfortunately, these items and others were stolen when I was broken into after being taken to hospital with a dislocated hip.  I didn't figure I got fair restitution from the perp caught with it -under half of what it was cost to purchase - but he got 5 years for burglary and 2 for distributing stolen goods, so it paid to have a friend in the prosecutors office. 

The reasoning for the lower restitution was that the goods were used and would unlikely fetch better prices at the pawnbrokers... and to impose a higher amount would have meant a shorter prison sentence, so I/we opted to keep the prick off the streets for 7 years.  He got parole at 6 years 8 months, so it was as near as fech is to swearing.... plus he got a thumping or 6 into the bargain while incarecerated,   And the Cash Converters store manager where it was offloaded got 12 years...not just for receiving my property, but for being a key player in shifting large amounts of stolen property between states to make it more difficult to trace.

Anyhow, digression is one of my many talents and I've gone way off topic... yet again.

So, the point of this thread was to have a bit of fun and take a tongue-in-cheek swipe at a company many people love to hate, so it is in no way serious and bears no malice towards Apple. Furthermore, no Apple techs were harmed during its creation and no correspondence shall be entered into from employees of tech companies peddling similar equipment.

I doubt that Kona simply because Apple is too proprietary. A friend bought a Macbook about the same time as I got my present laptop and paid $2,500.00 for it. Twice it has been in the shop for repairs. One to replace the HD and another to repair the touch pad, that he never uses btw. It doesn't do anything more than my machine does. The only difference is that his has more memory. Three years into it and he has paid about four times what my machine costs, four times! For that kind of money I could have a kick-ass desktop to rival the best of them. So where is the advantage? There is such a thing as pricing yourself out of business.  

Hey Uvah, old buddy!  If there was a nail in the context of this discussion, you just hit it squarely on the head.  While there are some hardcore fanbois with more money than sense, and thus would buy snot if it had the Apple logo on it, many people are becoming 'former' Apple customers because of escalating costs when in fact they should be decreasing due to savings for Apple through its exploitation of cheap Chinese labour.

These 'former' customers may not give a rats arse that these Chinese workers are subjected to appalling conditions - or that suicide nets were installed around the factory building to prevent workforce shrinkage - but they sure give a rats about having to pay more for less, not much better than or slightly better for too great a price.

Anyway, that's the last serious comment I have for this thread, given my intention was to take the piss and have a bit of fun.

Well Apple is still making money hand over fist, so there is a market for their products.

I'm just hoping for the demise of Apple's totalitarian rule over it's customers.

As far as tablets go, I could never see myself choosing an isanitary-napkin over android.....neva!

Okay, Sorry for the reversal in "no more serious comments" but this IS newsworthy...

Apple iPhones allow data extraction, from emails, contact details to other personal information.

This is an admission from Apple itself, so the question now is, how many delerious and misguided fanbois are going to trust this reprehensible company now?

For mine, IF I'd had the sheer stupidity to buy an iPhone in the first place, I'd fill it full of [lots of runny, smelly] bullshit in the hope it feched up their Cupertino HQ when RTMed [Returned to the Manufacturer].

Orright, so that bit wasn't serious, but I can see it now, as the included firecracker goes off and the resulting explosion paints the walls [and hopefully Tim Cook] a somewhat smelly and caccy brown.

That's right, I am in a really wicked and unpleasant mood this morning.  I didn't sleep at all well last night, and when I did I was dreaming about being pursued by both Google and Apple employeees in black vehicles with tinted windows and paintball guns sticking out where the headlights should be.  I'm running lika all fech but every so often they're on target and I get hit in the arse by a stinging red or green paintball.  It was bloody horrible!  At one point I had to jump over a stray dog, and at that point they got me on the back of the scrotum with a black and blue paintball.  To be honest, I'm not too sure it was really that colour, but in my dream that was the colour of my nutsack the next day.

So c'mon, really, would any of you be sympathetic or generous to a company that invaded your dreams and shot you in the procreational marbles [or is that recreational marbles] with a paint gun?  I seriously doubt it!  In fact, I think the miniscule firecracker is showing restaint.... compared to some. I can envisage some of you driving into Slicon valley in tanks... laden with manure filled shells aimed squarely at the Apple building.

Anyhow, none of this would be necessary in a perfect world - cos in a perfect world Apple wouldn't exist - but such is the way of things and I need to blow off steam.  That somehow helps with the vertigo.  Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

In a perfect world Apple would still exist. They had a hand in bringing about modern computing and cell phone design. I don't understand your dislike of Google and Apple. Without both of them the world and the internet would be different for the worse.

Companies are inanimate objects, it's people who accomplish things.  Their massive contribution to bringing modern computing to the average person's home was engineered by Steve Wozniak (no longer an active employee at Apple) and made successful by Steve Jobs (deceased) in the distant past.  I'm not much of an Apple hater, but I dislike this nostalgia of fawning over the Apple of today because of what the company did 35 years ago.  It was an entirely different collection of people back then.