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Re: Apple's Pippin console makes list "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time"



In article <290520062118183548%mitch@hawaii.rr>,
 Mitch <mitch@hawaii.rr> wrote:

> In article 
> <timberwoof-AB5169.20274329052006@nnrp-virt.nntp.sonic.net>, 
> Timberwoof <timberwoof@stimpberawoofm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Oh, dear. An Apple product dead for ten years sucked. I guess I 
> > better not buy into OS X. Is that the logic? Well, more than half 
> > of the products in the list were for DOS or Windows. I guess I 
> > won't buy into Windows, then! 
> 
> Just because someone writes an article like that doesn't mean they 
> were trying to make a point about OS choice with it -- nor does it 
> have to have some ultimate purpose. It's an article about failed tech 
> -- that's enough to be interesting.

Maybe I suspected that since someone posted about the article in a Mac 
advocacy newsgroup (and a bunch of others) and titled the post 
specificaly about an Apple product, it meant he was slagging Apple and 
was trying to start a flamewar.

-- 
Timberwoof <me at timberwoof dot com> http://www.timberwoof.com