<story><title>Hey Apple, a Five-Year-Old Computer Isn’t ‘Sad’</title><url>http://ifixit.org/blog/7998/sad-apple/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mariodiana</author><text>Given the audience, and the accepted notion that Apple, as a business, wants people to buy their hardware, isn&amp;#x27;t Schiller&amp;#x27;s comment meant as something of a joke?&lt;p&gt;This is what&amp;#x27;s wrong with the Internet! The reaction reminds me of Madeleine Albright&amp;#x27;s comment about there being &amp;quot;a special place in Hell for women who don&amp;#x27;t support other women,&amp;quot; a comment she made at a Hillary Clinton function. Apparently, Ms. Albright has been making this comment at the end of speeches for years. Do you know why? Because in the context it&amp;#x27;s funny. It&amp;#x27;s funny because it&amp;#x27;s exaggerated, quasi-ridiculous thing to say. But, the last time she said it, at the Clinton rally, people in the Twitterverse -- or whatever we&amp;#x27;re calling it -- took offense and went crazy.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sorry, but both Albright&amp;#x27;s comment and Schiller&amp;#x27;s comment are benign jokes. The Internet manufactures outrage.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hey Apple, a Five-Year-Old Computer Isn’t ‘Sad’</title><url>http://ifixit.org/blog/7998/sad-apple/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>I own a 5-year-old MacBook Air 11, which has run only Linux since day 1 (and it does an admirable job at it, unlike other Macs, but that&amp;#x27;s not relevant here).&lt;p&gt;So for all practical purposes this is a PC with an Apple logo. It it is really snappy, silent, and battery lasts approximately 5 hours. There&amp;#x27;s nothing sad about it.&lt;p&gt;Sad is having to trash fine hardware because its manufacturer won&amp;#x27;t release updates. Sad is having new versions of OSes running slower and slower. Sad is planned obsolescence.</text></comment>