Apple Computer scorns Rush Limbaugh

[dani]

new article on MacDailyNews...

Mac user Rush Limbaugh caught up in dual controversies
Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 09:55 AM EDT

Rush is a big Mac promoter who has complained several times on his radio show that Apple wouldn't use him to do Mac ads because Steve Jobs' political viewpoints don't mesh with his.

article and reader's comments here:
http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P1888_0_1_0

[efhmc]

1. Another reason to like apple.

[onehandle]

2. Good

If Apple ever hired him, I'd switch to an abacus, because I don't do Windoze.

Steve is an official friend of Bill (Clinton). Bite us, Rush (well known racist and drug addict).

[lpbk2713]

3. "An Apple a day keeps the pompous bigots away"

........

[SmileyBoy]

4. If Macs weren't known for crashing all the time, I'd be a Mac user.

Kudos to Jobs and Apple.

[dpbrown]

5. My Mac never crashes

I don't think you needed that FUD insert in your comments.

[SmileyBoy]

7. I had an Powerbook G4 laptop in tech school, and it drove me CRAZY.

I could never access my saved disk information, the drive would jam all the time, and tech support could not give me much help.

But I will say this: I've used PC's and Macs all my life. I've owned both. Macs are WAAAAY easier to use than PC's, and I know that for a fact. But I use a PC for reliability. My father's old Compaq Presario from 1997 is still being used in my parent's house after three major upgrades, and there hasn't been a single crash in all those six years.

It can get very frustrating trying to navigate through Windows and the fact that all its software components aren't interlinked like Macs, but the thing will NEVER die on me.

[dani]

6. crashing all the time?

I've been running OSX for about 2 years without a single system crash. But you must be thinking of OS9, that could have stability problems (but not as bad as Win98 in my experience).

[SmileyBoy]

8. Read my post above. I've owned both Mac and PC. I prefer PC's.

I would always cross my fingers when I started up my Mac, hoping the thing wouldn't die on me.

[onehandle]

9. OSX is rock solid....

Almost two years on the same G4 PowerBook. Running the original system that was installed on it (plus automatic updates, Macs update themselves). I use it ten to twelve hours a day, seven days a week. Much of the time I'm not on it, I'm processing video, so it runs more than twelve hours a day on average.

I've only had one or two system crashes in that time. Much different than OS9.

I also use a PC at work. It is a "state of the art Dell". Two hard drives in a two month period later....Well, email kinda works on it.

[dani]

11. northwest must've had a

rotten Apple!

:crazy:

[Art_from_Ark]

12. Rock solid OSX

Especially 10.2-- no crashes whatsoever, and the computer always starts up.

[Zero Gravitas]

10. Hey Rush, you junkie

maybe they don't want to be associated with you its because you're a divisive hate-monger, not your politics. You ever consider that?

[myomy]

13. LetÕs hear it for Steve Jobs.

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[Chovexani]

14. Amen

Jobs is sexy and brilliant...typical liberal. :)

I remember a Mac Addict poll a few years back that asked which of the Steves you'd rather be stuck on a desert island with (that's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak for you non-Mac people). I thought it was telling most of the men chose Woz so he'd whip something up like the Professor on Gilligan's Island. Nearly all the women (self included) chose Jobs. I wonder why. :)

[elcondor]

15. Hmmm . . .

Who's on the board of Apple? ;-)

[rucky]

16. Apple good. Snapple bad.

any questions?