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One step closer to world domination. Mwahahaha!

Shoddy reporting. The BEEB doesn't say what was printed on, or what color the tee shirts were. Inquiring minds want to know.

"Apple customers, known for their fierce loyalty to the brand..."

Typical Microsoft/Siemens funded impartial BB*llsh*tC. We're not loyal to the brand, we're loyal to any company that makes great, easy to use, beautiful, well-integrated products that are created from the ground up with the end user in mind, it just so happens that is what Apple stands for.

Quit wasting your time reporting your biased crap and put all your resources into getting iPlayer for Mac out the door.

Apple developered a fierce loyalty (aka "cult status") mostly after Steve Jobs left the company back in early Apple's history and when IBM entered the PC market with Microsoft.

It's this fierce loyalty that has substained the company through the "dark years" of pretty stagnent innovation by Apple. It was the underdog effect that kept us oldtime Mac users paying extraordinary prices for our computing experience.

Since Steve Jobs return, Apple Computer has changed to just Apple, with a focus on things more diverse than just computers.

Apple also has lost it's appeal as a underdog, with so many other products now available from the company, it seems it's more bent on monopolistic behavior than listening to customers needs for safe, reliable computing products.

It's nowhere as bad as Microsoft, but it is slipping quite a bit lately.

I hope that changes soon.

@Matte Screen User,
You sound fake, like a troll. When real Mac users have gripes about Apple, and they do, they're specific and back up their complaints with facts. All you do is tar Apple with the broad brush of "monopolistic" behavior. Apple has always limited its offerings to what it thought customers want, even when they customers think they want something else. Sometime Apple gets it wrong (e.g., no mid-tower), but that's nothing new. If anything, Apple has learned a lot and its computers and operating system are far better than they ever were.
Go Apple!

Glad to hear it. But the Beep is the biggest pile of dogshit publication in the world. They stink, are biased, and I hate them.

iHaggis.

Printed on the front was "Buchanan Street" and a picture of an apple and on the back was "Designed by Apple in California".

When real Mac users have gripes about Apple, and they do, they're specific and back up their complaints with facts.

Fact: Glossy Screens contribute signifcantly to Computer Vision Syndrome.

All you do is tar Apple with the broad brush of "monopolistic" behavior.

Fact: Apple is indeed a operating system and a hardware monopoly. You can't legally run Mac OS X on any other hardware but from Apple. Apple has changed from Apple Computer and no longer is producing computers soly. They now produce music devices, phones, stereos and tv input devices.

They also produce software for Windows.

Apple has always limited its offerings to what it thought customers want, even when they customers think they want something else. Sometime Apple gets it wrong (e.g., no mid-tower), but that's nothing new. If anything, Apple has learned a lot and its computers and operating system are far better than they ever were.

Not more secure as they used to be and actually their software really hasn't improved all that much than OS 9 days. Take for instance Appleworks and Numbers/Pages. Same thing. just a bit different and you have to pay a lot more for it.

Also they are shutting out a product customers want and need, matte screen notebooks and computers.

Apple is better than Windows by a long shot, but they are not doing nearly as well as used to be in things that matter most to computer users.

Security and Ease of Use.

I've never had more software break on Mac's since Mac OS X.

I set up Mac's for newbies, it's killing me with all these problems. I feel like a Windows tech, constant updates, changes and breaks.

Now 10.5? Oh jesus save me.

It can get cold out there in kilts standing in line

Matte Screen User said:
Fact: Glossy Screens contribute signifcantly to Computer Vision Syndrome.
Did I miss something? What is this and when was it tied to glossy screens?
And he said:
Take for instance Appleworks and Numbers/Pages. Same thing. just a bit different and you have to pay a lot more for it.
My wife and I each have both AppleWorks 6.2.9 and iWorks'08 on our computers. They are not the "same thing", they are more than a "bit different", and the cost is about the same (after inflation). Plus, Pages is better than the AppleWorks word processor and Numbers is better than the AppleWorks spreadsheet. Keynote is better than AppleWork's Presentation. OK, Apple needs to add in a budget version of FrameWorks and (maybe) a drawing/painting/both app to complete the package, but the three included apps are the most-wanted, most-used in the group.

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It's August, even in Glasgow, which means even the nights are usually in the 60s.

R: iHaggis.

iShudder...!

Did I miss something? What is this and when was it tied to glossy screens?

Glare on computer screens is a component of Computer Vison Syndrome which combines other factors with the longterm use of computer screens.

All I can say is research the subject yourself, it's certainly a occupational hazzard.

Glossy screens require one to change the enviroment in order to relieve the glare and one of the effects of CVS. If one can change the enviroment that is...

Next time you use a glossy magazine and experience a glare, catch yourself automatically moving either yourself or the magazine to eliminate the glare to read the page.

Now one can't do that all that easily with a heavy computer/screen combination like a iMac. So the use will have to find and attach, a ugly glare reducer to their nice iMac computer or even worse a MacBook.

Sorry gang--Pete was out last night on a bender, and as you well know, alcohol GREATLY reduces the effectiveness of um, certain medications...

And, well, there was this really hot Saran Wrap number I was chattin' up, and well, I says to Pete, be a good boy, and don't wait up...

I try not to let it happen too much, but there's only so much an honest bit on aluminum can do...

Time for an Apple commercial with The Proclaimers "500 Miles" and our favorite objects of technological affection:

When I boot-up/well, ya know I'm gonna be/I'm gonna be the man boots-up next to you

No? ok.

Got there at about 0845 this morning. Hundreds outside and more arrived through the morning. Soft drizzle didn't mar anyone's spirits. The building has been stripped back to the stone and looks cooler than a penguin's underpants.

The 15" MacBook Pro I bought is also rather swish and I like the glossy screen. (And Celtic won 5-0 to make it a perfect day.)

magic word 'somewhat' I am somewhat excited by the whole day.

You think those glossy screens are bad? My optometrist talked me into getting no-line bifocals in my new glasses, which I just got this morning. They are supposed to be made for a lot of computer use. Holy crap do these things ever suck! I not only can't use them on the computer, I can't even read a friggen' book! If you move your head a millimeter, everything distorts. It reminds me of the visual effect of the invisible alien in the movie 'Predator'. I am sooooo gonna rip somebody a new butthole!

@LorD 1776
Been through the same thing! I suggest you return them and have them exchanged for regular bifocals. I did. Seems to be the accepted thing (in Oz at least) that they can be exchanged if unsuitable. I also had the bifocal magnification increased a notch so that I don't have to hunch over the screen, and which also increases the field of vision.

Here are some pictures of the inside and of the grand opening...

http://www.macitynet.it/immagini/visitaconnoi/applestoreglasgow/

http://www.macitynet.it/immagini/visitaconnoi/applestoreglasgow2/

"Characters displayed on a computer screen or video display terminal (VDT) are made up of many, many small dots or pixels. Pixels are the result of an electron beam striking the phospor-coated rear surface of the screen."
That's the cause of "Computer Vision Syndrome".
Could someone tell me where the electron beam is in this thing? Or the phosphors?
Or maybe I should buy those glasses Dr Ergo is selling to relieve this condition. I bet they do a great job ... he must be a great doctor, yes?

OK ... maybe not so great. OK, maybe the info on the various sites Google dug out of the muck is either a) alarmist or b) antiquated. That would make <b>Matte<b> ... ?

Dave

Glare on a screen?

Polarized lenses in a pair of glasses will eliminate that and the only ugly thing will be your face, you big troll you.

@ Matte Screen User

I guess you don't use a mouse to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome then.

You are pathetic...

People stop feeding the troll.

Oi! The lot at the BBC are bunch of pansies!

Just my $0.02