[Semi-Serious] iTunes...

[Cander]

Alright, alright, let me illustrate. With words.

Observe this little 'exchange' here.



If you'll go up and observe the thread preceding that statement by our esteemed friend "OtherGuy" you will see that the reasons that you have attributed to his opinion are reasons which you've based entirely on the conclusions from your own post - a "standard codec" was not discussed earlier, it is something that you have pointed out. By the same technique of attribution, I could say that his reason for not wanting an iPod is "Both the iPod and Zune are prohibitively expensive for Blakk Majik" and I could take this further and say that "OtherGuy" has very strong feelings about the welfare of Blakk Majik. This, my iRate feline friend, is known as mincing words and being deliberately obtuse, which I am currently resorting to in order to make this point, which I hope will not be ignored (or perhaps it will, only posts will tell)

However, that is not the context. The context is a common complaint. There is a common assumption that music files from the iTunes store get you 'married' to their devices. I have been gifted with the ability of contextual comprehension and so have you. By deliberately choosing to take a sentence out of context, you become what is known as a 'lawyer'. You wouldn't happen to be a lawyer, would you? Wait, what, you're a lawyer!?

See? I can do it too.

It appears that even as you quote the offending post, you have missed the context.

This entire thread is most of the reasons why I don't use Apple products and I'll especially never own an iPod or iPhone

Entire thread. That is the key phrase. What are the most discussed issues being discussed in the thread? DRM and being tied to the iPod. Since there is no other mention beyond the first about pricing issues, that point becomes moot with the context of the rest of the thread. No one else is discussing price. So what does that leave us with that relates to the iPod/iPhone? 2 out of 3 issues. Now which 2 did I decide to address because they were the ones that were wrong and no one else was properly addressing it?

If anything the only issue with my post was its rather rude use of sarcasm to make my point. Which I always do. I still maintain that my response is the the proper context.

And there you go. I hope this has been helpful to you. While I understand that you may have strong feelings and brand loyalty and claim to be equally "just" when you're on the other side, it does not become people of our stature and intelligence to fall to such depths in order to score a personal point for the man. We're developers after all, we're smarter than this

It is actually necessary. When you have people who will pick and choose arbitrary or incorrect reasons to say they won't use product A over product B and confront them about it, the common response or thinking from those people is 'Well he is just a fanboy of product B so ignore him.'. Heck look at your own words I just quoted and see how dangerously close you come to that exact thinking. Brand loyalty? Claim to be equally just? This has nothing to do with brand loyalty. This is about technology loyalty. What really doesn't become people of our positions is to thumb our noses at anything outside a narrow scope of technology and to not bother with any actual research of the issue beyond what others in the same technology bubble will tell you. Especially when the same arguments can be made for either side. Even the link to the Mactard site in your signature, as facetious as it is, still highlights the problem that people are stuck in this bubble of incorrect thinking about Apple products and its users and sites like that keep people in said bubble. Funny as it may be and accurate for some type of people, it only fuels posts like the one we are discussing.