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Apple Deal-breakers
This post started as an email to the great people at 5by5. The email suggested that although Apple is a great company that makes great products there is still a minority they might not be be right for. Apple products don’t solve my problems, and have a list of deal-breakers that prevent me from buying in. My reasons might be menial, but they are my own.
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Nerd Problems
So nerds have problems, but nerd problems are different from everybody elses. Nerd problems are low impact / high frequency while normal people problems are high impact / low frequency. In layman’s terms, when it comes to computers, normal people have relatively hard problems that take a long time to solve, but these problems are fairly infrequent. Nerds on the other hand have problems that are easier to solve, but happen at much shorter intervals. To be clear I’m talking about computer nerds throughout this piece, but I think the impact / frequency distinction is fairly accurate for all nerds. Time for an couple of examples.
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