Somebody with no real musical talent. Just living off of the fact that she was married to Kurt Cobain.
Oh please. My dog has more musical talent than Fred Durst. The fact that he got a record contract shows that the recording industry needs to be killed off and restarted.
Heh, who? Yes I know who they are but thats what most people will say.
If "Closer" was their one hit, then "The Perfect Drug" was their famous B Side and Trent Reznor has done nothing good since then (and Garageband wasn't around then!) other than speak out against the Big 4.
As I said above "who?" heh. They sound like an 80s pop group that can't let the 80s go.
With that kind of sound its not difficult to believe they would use Garageband.
Because she makes her own music right? I mean she writes the music, plays the instruments, records them, etc.
Oh and shes not famous just because shes a sex symbol. She has actual "talent", right? And her music isn't just repetitive techno beats that people have been pumping out on their MIDI soundcards since the 90s, right?
Seriously, you think shes a "respectable" musician? Her and the rest of the bands you listed are... well, more proof that the recording industry needs reworked.
But it is good to see you can come up with a list of one hit wonders and celebrities living off of someone elses celebrity. That really speaks volumes about the quality of Garageband
How is asking two straight forward questions a cheap attempt at making Windows look bad, and how is it twisting your statement?
Because it wasn't a straight forward question. It was an in-direct attempt to make Windows look bad. Anyone with a shred of common sense knows that third party DVD players do not cause issues, especially someone who supposedly runs Windows already, and asking such a question is just a pathetic attempt at a cheap shot at the OS.
If you had an argument with evidence you would not need to resort to name calling.
You just called me a liar and the following are some of what you've have said recently
idiotic Apple fanboy
elitest Mac owner
I see most Mac owners as foolish people
If somebody lies then I call them a liar. Thats how the world works.
Whats this about "an argument with evidence"? You're the one making claims saying that iWeb is useful, that Garageband is used by respectable musicians. But what have you shown so far? You post links to peoples blogs and they generally all look the same with only very minor differences between them. The list of musicians you make is well.... Let's say I was an aspiring musician myself. If I came here and read this and saw Courtney Love, NIN, and Kate Nash were using Garageband, I'd stay about as far away from that software as I could.
Better yet, your argument for Windows being bad is based on small forum and website polls. You somehow claim that 800 people represents 260m. Thats just one of the stupid things I've ever heard.
I would post more but I got bored. There are 13 there which is considered unlucky for some - in this case - you.
How so? None of those sites are "respectable". They're all blogs and personal sites. Stuff nobody cares about. Give me REAL websites. I don't care about what people have to say or some random guys pictures I've never met and don't care to meet. Show me some REAL WEBSITES.
Whats even worse about those websites is how generic they look. They all share common traits. They all look like they're using mass produced graphics and templates, which of course they are. I mean, it honestly looks like one single person designed every site. Despite the differences, they all generally look the same in one way or another. Now I know Apple fans don't mind everything looking the same as the other, but most people DO want individuality and that makes iWeb even more useless. Why would any right minded person want to make a site that looks like everyone elses? They want it to look like its theirs.
All you just did was prove my point about iWeb being useless and you proved that iWeb, overall, isn't very good when it is used. Who wants a generic site? Who wants their site to look like everyone elses site? Not me.
Obviously I realise that only bands that you consider to be "respectable" can qualify but I posted a list above - there's even some Indie bands on it.
You so lost this argument a long time ago
How did I lose this argument again? You posted bands that are or were one hit wonders, one musician living off of her dead husband, and some very atrocious music in general.
So you have yet to show me any respectable bands using Garageband. If Nine Inch Nails and Courtney Love are the best you can do for your argument supporting Garageband, then you just made an even better argument AGAINST Garageband.
By the way, wheres your proof that Courtney Love uses Garageband? I just want to make sure of it. Because I just did a google search for "Courtney Love Garageband" and all it turns up is results to the site garageband.com and her name being mentioned. Thats it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/18/news.apple is that your proof? You better have more than that, because all it says is that 3 of the bands you listed "plugged their mic into their Mac and recorded instant demos" in so many words. Which brings us back to the point I made. Anyone who uses their Mac's integrated soundcard and relies on it to produce quality doesn't know anything about sound quality or, really, what they're doing in general. And of course it brings up the point that we all know, that Nine Inch Nails only released the files so people could edit songs in Garageband. Not that they use it to make their own music. Even though their music is bad enough that one might suggest that they really do use it to produce their music..
Your "respectable" clause yet again. Your friends and everyone you know ran out of steam - so you have the "respectable clause. I posted a PC friendly website - they said where they got their data from. You gave only your opinion. And you're still being rude.
And where did they get their data from? Forum users? A poll of people visiting their site? Where are the numbers from the OEMs?
And, again, 800 people, 3,000 people, not even 100,000 people represent the feelings of those who bought 260m licenses. There is no way you can ever twist that argument to work in your favor.
I should have known that you field of expertise would expand to cover computer salesman for HP. Did you ever ask for XP instead of Vista? No don't answer that question - I already know the answer.
I deal with all brands
Stop twisting my words.
Of all the people who wanted XP over Vista thanks to Apple's ads.. when I let them play with Vista for a little bit, they wanted to know how Apple got away with lying the way they do.
MS noticed people weren't buying Vista at any great rate - so still allow a downgrade loophole to continue to keep up sales and still gain a Vista license sale. Seems fair enough. I can't blame them for that.
Oh please. Vista wasn't selling "at any great rate"? The adoption rate for Vista was higher than XP, even though some foolish Apple related sites tried to spin that with "percentages". Whats even funnier is how Steve Jobs got up on stage and made fun of Vista sales, even though Vista had already surpassed the total number of Mac users by that point.
Its absolutely hilarious when Apple and the fans try to use this. Even with you now. "Oh haha Vista isn't selling well!" Yeah, it's sold 10x the number of Mac users total. Thats somehow bad! How well has Leopard sold so far? How well CAN it sell? How fast can Leopard reach 260m sold? Vista did it in a year and a half. Leopard is less than a year old so it has plenty of time left to reach that number.
Of course it can't be MS's fault they botched it up in the first place. It has to be everyone else's fault.
Oh? And what did Microsoft do to their own reputation?
Let me know when your opinion along with everyone you know - proves your argument. I quoted pages who quoted their source - you did not. In a game of numbers my 800/3000 beats you and your friends.
So are you a stand-up comedian or something?
800 or 3,000 people DO NOT represent 260m licenses sold.
Thats like saying California represents the US as a whole. Come on. Stop being ridiculous. Somehow, the rest of the 299m people in the country want to be like the 1m in LA. Right.
There you go again another insult followed by the "There are more Vista users than Mac users so my argument is correct" statement. Still no evidence so your still wrong.
Wheres your evidence that Vista is "bad"? Wheres your evidence that people are switching to XP from Vista in LARGE NUMBERS? Eh? Come on, let's see some real proof. Not just the opinions of a small number of people.
Not in the back waters of the EU - they've recently been fined heavily over Vista and anti-competitive practices and its on going.
In the EU they got in trouble for bundling Media Player. Real realized that nobody was downloading their software. They ignored the fact that Real Player is awful in general and thats why nobody likes it, and went to the EU and cried.
Microsoft had the guts to stand up and say the whole thing was stupid and thats why its still on-going.
Sorry I've trimmed out the body of you post, because it was rambling a bit about your opinion on Apple. If they are breaking the law then they will be punished.
Of course you trimmed my post. Because you don't want to have to reply to the points I made about Apple breaking US law and breaking the DMCA they love to use oh so much against other people.
I should hope so - its their shop.
And its not a monopoly at all. You know, I think you're the first person out of all of the Apple sites I visit that actually said something remotely positive about Apple's grip on the App Store.
Steve wanted it dropped - some agreed some didn't. Apple don't own the music and they cannot sell it as they want.
Oh please. If he really wanted it gone he'd have it gone by now. iTunes sells more music than anyone else in the US. If Jobs wanted the DRM gone he could go to the record companies and say that they will not sell their music unless its DRM free. Do you really think the record companies want to lose their biggest source of money that continues to grow? Of course not. They'd bend in a heartbeat at the thought of losing their music. A few years ago, I remember reading an interview with a record exec that said he was afraid of Wal-Mart shrinking their CD sales section if the record companies didn't lower their wholesale prices.
But heres the thing. We all know that Apple loves to nickel and dime people to death. They can continue to sell DRM'ed low quality music until the sales do start to slow. At that point they can make iTunes Plus storewide and charge everyone for the song upgrades. Even though Napster and others give their customers free upgrades, Apple can and already does charge users for their upgrades.
But why give people DRM free when they continue to be happy with being locked in when they really just don't know yet that they're locked in?
The fact that you first thought is - "they must be an illegal immigrant because they have a thick Spanish accent" speaks volumes. This is a bigoted thought process. You are also basically assuming Apple would employ illegal immigrants.
Well, to legally work in this country your English skills have to be somewhat fluent and you have to be able to understand other people well. The outsourced tech support of HP has a better time understanding their customers than the person I'm referring to at Apple.
And how does it speak volumes? Honestly, this is going beyond stupid now. You're trying to use something thats common sense against me to make me look bad. All its doing is backfiring on you and making you look incredibly foolish. If you lived in the US you'd know that the majority of people here greatly dislike illegal immigrants and when we hear or see or know of a situation where an illegal worker is taking the spot of a legal resident, we get upset.
So what you are saying here is that Microsoft put Vista out into the world knowing that out of the "over a billion" Windows users (1.25 billion actually) the vast majority would not be able to use it because it was all to expensive. MS have a global presence and do market research. Are you seriously suggesting they would do this. Basically - lock out the vast majority of their user base because they are poor. This ignores your preaching about how cheap it all is to buy PC and Windows because you're contradicting yourself then.
This has gone well beyond stupid now.
You ignore the fact that XP is still being sold in developing countries. It's not a matter of Vista being too expensive so much as it is that the hardware being used there is generally older, or its too expensive for people there to buy new hardware to be able to run the new OS.
Computer hardware is actually more expensive in developing countries. Buying a computer there that is considered low-end here in the US would generally require a full 3 months of an average salary on those countries.
It's not that Microsoft is locking out people in these countries. They can buy Vista if they want to, theres even cheaper versions of Vista available in those countries. It's the simple fact of the matter that the economic situations in those countries prevents people from buying what we consider "modern" hardware that Vista (and Leopard) is optimized for.
You're also ignoring the fact (I'm so tired of saying that) that Microsoft offers CHOICES for the people in those countries. Microsoft still makes XP available to them because they know that the hardware that is actually affordable will run XP beautifully. But they make all forms of Vista, including those made for those countries, available.
Looking at those countries, wheres Apple at? I see iPods and iPhones in Africa, but where is Apple advertising their computers?
Let's look at the Philippines for a minute. Not a poor country but not exactly rich either. I see all major PC manufacturers there offering their "low-end" products all the way up to their high end notebooks with dedicated graphics. I see the iPhone there. I see iPods. But where are the Macs?
You want to accuse Microsoft of locking people out because they can't afford the product, but its actually quite the opposite. Microsoft not only makes standard versions of XP and Vista available in nearly all regions, but they have tailored made copies of the OS available as well that are significantly cheaper. Microsoft makes software available in these countries that, again, can actually run on the hardware that the people can afford.
All while Apple does what? You accuse Microsoft of locking people out who can't afford their product, but in reality, Apple, beyond the iPod and iPhone, is nowhere to be found. Apple is the company locking customers out because they can't afford their products.
You see Microsoft, Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, and many others making products for these developing countries all while Apple snubs them because they can't afford to spend 4 or 5 months salary on an entry level MacBook. But others are willing to recognize the potential of the people and the markets so they make products that these people can buy and can use. But Apple won't do it because that would mean *gasp* no longer pricing their units 2 to 3x above the cost of an equivalent PC.
This kind of stuff makes me sick. People accuse Microsoft of all of these bad things, like snubbing developing markets, or just being evil in general. All while Apple completely ignores the markets simply because they can't afford their overpriced hardware. Instead of bringing hardware prices down to reasonable levels and jumping on the opportunity to overtake Microsoft and Linux in these markets, Apple snubs them and continues their nickel and diming ways. Apple continues to do things like illegally locking the iPhone or pretending to be the champion of DRM free music while still using it as their best tool to maintain their monopoly on the iPods.
When people make comments about Microsoft and PC manufacturers being bad, while they're attempting to bring developing countries into the modern market and Apple and Jobs sit by and count their profits, it shows how ignorant the person who is who made that comment.
I have underlined "every" so you can't miss it.
Nice way to take a generalization literally. But I guess you were too busy thinking about how great Apple and thinking poorly of Microsoft to realize it was a generalization, right?
