Ars iTunesMS review

eugene · May 5, 2003 5:33AM

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/i...tunesms-1.html

Since my back was turned, I missed the giant red arrow of death that nearly poinked me in the shoulder.

agent302 · May 5, 2003 9:04AM

That was a waste of 5 minutes.

torifile · May 5, 2003 9:05AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Eugene

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/i...tunesms-1.html

Since my back was turned, I missed the giant red arrow of death that nearly poinked me in the shoulder.

Can I have that 10 minutes of my life back, please? What a waste of bits.

netromac · May 5, 2003 9:06AM

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Originally posted by agent302

That was a waste of 5 minutes.

Jepp!

ghost_user_name · May 5, 2003 9:20AM

funnay!

Or was it?

mount_my_floppy · May 5, 2003 9:21AM

Quote:

Can I have that 10 minutes of my life back, please? What a waste of bits.

God I should have heeded the warnings - kind of like Don`t touch the red button! - I had to do it.

frank_t · May 5, 2003 9:24AM

Gee he wouldn't happen to be a PeeCee user who ever wrote that....no his just a sad guy that got lucky that a web site put that online.

More talk from the land of dumb ass PC users.....PLEASE GIVE THERE SERVER SPACE BACK TO SOMETHING THAT MEANS....MEANS.....WELL SOMETHING!!!.....now that "review" people is a waste of the internet.

Frank_t

buonrotto · May 5, 2003 10:34AM

Trying way too hard to be funny. A lot of what he said would be funny if he were not so proud of his sense of humor. Otherwise, not much substance.

dviant · May 5, 2003 10:51AM

ARS shouldn't let people on meth write articles for them.

michael · May 5, 2003 1:46PM

Um, I rather liked the review. Very post-modernist, and a little more stream-of-consciousness than I'm used to. Regardless of the style, he has some good points. And I think his description the palo alto apple store, and the mac-heads in it (along with the mac community) is fiendishly accurate, and perhaps a little too close to home.

And, in case you hadn't noticed, or hand't bothered to read to the last paragraph. He likes it

ciao,

stupider...likeafox · May 5, 2003 3:24PM

I also liked the review, and note that this guy, like the Mac user on the theRegister.co.uk, gets dinged for being a PC user, when both obviously have copious knowledge of Mac arcana.

Having said that his original switching series, premiered in the ars forum, was much, much better. Someone linked to it from here before so maybe they'll do so again.

job · May 5, 2003 5:48PM

That article was the funniest thing I have read in weeks.

Mac users need to lighten up...

shawnpatrickjoyce · May 5, 2003 5:56PM

**** Ars.

cesjr · May 5, 2003 10:09PM

Of course it's funny. But what do you do when basically the product is good and, damn, APPLE AGAIN!!! Argh!!

It's not too hard to poke fun at people like Jobs, with all the hyping and marketing (anathema to Ars types). Or to poke fun at the Mac-worshipers. But when you strip away the excess, what's there?

Some old balding already super rich guy that for whatever wacky reason is on some kind of mission to actually make good computing products, rather than just milk the public with dreck a la Microsoft. Even though the public doesn't seem to care much. Why does he keep going?

As for the mac fans, mostly we're just people who like a nice product. What a strange concept.

alcimedes · May 5, 2003 10:25PM

i liked it.

guess i've been using a PEE CEE to much.

eugene · May 6, 2003 12:04AM

Wow, you guys are harsh. I thought the review was fun...and I thought it was cool that I was in it.

steve · May 6, 2003 2:12AM

As did I.

serrano · May 6, 2003 4:29AM

Ha ha.

paul · May 6, 2003 4:49AM

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Originally posted by Eugene

Wow, you guys are harsh. I thought the review was fun...and I thought it was cool that I was in it.

you were the one on the streetcorner outside the apple store?!

low-fi · May 6, 2003 5:09PM

IMHO, Jade is pretty funnay. His MWNY review is very amusing - he adds a different perspective, which can never be a bad thing

ast3r3x · May 6, 2003 6:02PM

haha he took some shots at apple but it was still funny...especially his pictures with his markers

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