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Come on MDN.
Enough with the vitriol.

Honestly. It's getting too much (dumb*ss, etc).

We're just talking about computers here after all. With the spite in the MDN Take here you'd think this article was bad news.

I'll come here for Apple news but I don't think I'll be bothering with the 'Take' any more. It's no wonder Windows users think MacHeads are fanatics.

Dec 28, 07 - 05:34 pm Comment from: TowerTone

CNBC’s Ass Of Business for 2007: MSLSG's Laura Goldman

Dec 28, 07 - 05:40 pm Comment from: Journo

MDN is entirely correct to criticize CNBC's mess of an article. From ending sentences with "is" to getting Mac unit sales wrong to quoting the biggest idiot possible, CNBC's article is amateurish at best.

It almost seems like they didn't want Jobs to win, but they were stuck having to followup on their poll, so they dashed off something halfheartedly.

Take that Ron Enderle!

Congratulations Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. and the Extended Apple family. It's been a good year. Now for an even better 2008!

-- Hano

God, what an awfully written and poorly researched article.

But, hey, it's an NBC outfit, how much intelligence can you really expect?

Dec 28, 07 - 06:02 pm Comment from: Fred Mertz

I'm with Fred,

But, I'm not with you.

CNBC's article actually reads more like the work of a six-year-old.

Note to GE: Get rid of Zucker now!

Dec 28, 07 - 06:11 pm Comment from: qka

MDN: Just do us a favor - ignore Enderle, Dvorak, Thurott, etc.

We won't miss them. Honest!

Dec 28, 07 - 06:13 pm Comment from: Zune Tang®

Steve Jobs? a.k.a. Mr. Threepercentmarketshare? a.k.a. Mr. Mycomputersareproprietayandexpensive? What a joke.

Any poll for the FACE OF BUSINESS that doesn't include the great Steve Ballmer is ridiculous. Apple doesn't even make computers that work in the REAL WORLD, i.e. BUSINESS. Microsoft Windows Vista will do more for worldwide business productivity than any craptacular MAC toy Apple comes up with—for the next ten years! Whatever.

I wrote in Steve Ballmer. Good job, Steve. Ballmer that is.

Your potential. Our passion.™

Hey MDN, don't insult eight year olds. They know better than this doofus.

@Zooney:

You're killin' me! I set up Macs in the Enterprise just about every day. And yeah, we do the whole Active Directory binding and Exchange mail and any other thing needs doing. So you must be joshin' me right? Or are you a parody type? I'm sure someone around here knows.

Dec 28, 07 - 07:38 pm Comment from: Jubei

Again they quote that Enderlebutt guy. Why oh why do they consider his comments valid for a millisecond.

Dec 28, 07 - 07:50 pm Comment from: LorD1776

Thanks MDN. Never change. Show no mercy. Take no prisoners.

Dec 28, 07 - 08:16 pm Comment from: 84 Mac Guy

The poorly written article and quotes from a dumbass are evidence of why it is easier to find World Champion Quilt Making on cable TV then CNBC.

Orange you glad I didn't say Zoonatic?

I have 75 customers extremely unhappy with their Vista.
All who recently purchased, Core 2 Duo machines... 32 bit and 64 bit OS... and so so so many drivers issues SCREWING up... not working... and each of these folks are demanding I help them re-install XP for them.

Returning to the Stone-ages is not progress.
Using the old software and the OS of Windows past is not productive.

MacroSloth made a bad business move. Very bad.
And their customer base knows it.

Ballmers don't bounce... turn off the Santa Parade and join in the real world... this business model that has included MacroSloth is becoming extinct.

the plague is MS and it has effected the entire digital realm - from telephone communications to pocket music players... HAVEN'T you HEARD - the EARTH shakin' STEVE is in CONTROL... right --- as in JOB... cos he can get the job done!


Hahahahahahahahahah

Ernie & Burt

<<
Even Bill Gates commends Jobs for his great taste.

“I'd see Steve make the decision based on a sense of people and product, that is even hard for me to explain,” Gates said. “The way he does things is just different. It's magical. And in that case...wow."
>>

Memo to Bill Gates:
The real WOW started on January 24th, 1984.

Dec 28, 07 - 11:58 pm Comment from: Ampar

Hank Paulson is getting some sympathy sex tonight.

Mac Sux.

Don't come all up ons with yallz pointin and joshin me cuz you dont got Vista. Aint like you aint got a good OS. Leopard? You gotsta be kiddin. So many bugz. I got amacbook, then I threw it out my 32nd story winow cuz it froze: Typical Mac.

Shut yallz Faces.

@Dave

Pity you threw that MacBook out man. But no worries. It probably only traveled a few feet. You can reach out and grab it. It's on that pile of Vista Notebooks that folks have been tossing out since its release. Everyone in my IT department, and I do mean everyone, wants a Mac. Even the diehard Wintel guys. Cause when they get home, they want a computer that just works.

@dave

you should have kept the Macbook. maybe it would have helped you to learn to read and write !!!

Dec 29, 07 - 07:11 am Comment from: LorD1776

Dave,

That's a very poor attempt at faking a southern accent. Are you from New York?

Dec 29, 07 - 05:42 pm Comment from: Randian

Only a true simpleton would write "And since it's launch . . ."

For the umpteenth time, "it's" = "it is." "Its" = the possessive pronoun, the one the above cretin should have used in the sentence. When words are one's profession, using the correct ones COUNTS. Period. No excuses.

Dec 29, 07 - 05:51 pm Comment from: John Gee

"Because it's all brand new, chances are it's not going to be particularly reliable so all of that wrapped up into a package makes what's a very pretty phone -- makes you probably want to wait for generation two."

Is this a sentence? Did he really say that?

@Randian
If you're referring to my quote, I said "its release" the correct usage. I didn't say "launch." By the by, what comes after umpteenth?

@Randian

Nevermind...you're referring to the quote way up top...but still, what DOES come after umpteenth?

Dec 30, 07 - 02:48 pm Comment from: LorD1776

Mactacular,

Actually, umpteenth is the cockney pronunciation of humpteenth. And we all know that after a hump you smoke a cigarette.

You just KNOW it eats CNBC up to have to give that to Jobs. Not only is their sister cable news station MSNBC a joint venture with Micro$oft but this comes on the heals of the big spat their parent NBC got in with Apple this year over television show pricing on iTunes!

I first noticed an anti-Apple bias on Keith Olbermann's show when he jumped all over the iPhone price-drop and made a snide comment like "at least Apple could have made it work right."

Dec 31, 07 - 09:10 am Comment from: Ampar

" . . . what DOES come after umpteenth?"

It's either umptwentysomethingth or refteenth depending on where you live.

Dec 31, 07 - 10:07 am Comment from: ElderNorm

MDN,
You hang in there and keep pointing out when other organizations make "stupid" mistakes. Its too easy to forget that in business, its really war.

"Come on MDN.
Enough with the vitriol. Honestly. It's getting too much (dumb*ss, etc).
We're just talking about computers here after all. With the spite in the MDN Take here you'd think this article was bad news."

Computers and software are whats being sold, but there are still way too many people that think people like Enderle actually know what they are saying when it comes to Apple. If you read some of the comment sites, its scary out there still.

But one thought. The Mac fans that go ballestic against Microsoft do really come off as fanatics not just fans.

Dec 31, 07 - 12:13 pm Comment from: LorD1776

"A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject."

and

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

Winston Churchill