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Microsoft has become less evil than Apple in the mindshare of the "technical folks" these days. This is pretty amazing!

I am very quickly starting to lose any sympathy for apple as they turn from a great product company into a financially engineered entity without a trace of real innovation. With a full-on user-hostile attitude, to boot.

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I'm always surprised people see this as a recent trend. If a machine has no expansion ports and the case is sealed with the weirdest screws they could find, it was meant to be an appliance for consumers rather than a tool for people.

They are the same screws BMW uses for wingmirrors.

Mhmm, and BMW isn't well known as a pinnacle of open, easy to repair cars either. Usually you end up pulling apart the whole front end on your beamer for something that'd take a few minutes to fix/replace on most other cars.

I just mention that incase anyone is wondering what tool to Google for ;-)

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