It's all a big laugh until your boss, or your boss' boss, gets an iPhone. Then comes the knock on the IT office's door.

I agree. He's not trolling, he's just making a horrible argument.

But it's true, Apple *helped* bring computers out of the nerd dens. Let's travel back 30 years, give or take a few. The Apple II was the first truly mainstream "personal computer". The Mac was the first commercially viable computer that was "friendly".

I've used one of those transceivers before. The sound quality is pretty bad. Plus, in this city, it's not much of a stretch to say that virtually the entire FM band is occupied. Interference even comes from other cars using one.

I love internet radio. I wouldn't listen to commercial radio at all anymore if my car stereo had AUX input.

My electricity comes from a variety of sources. Our hydro system takes it from multiple sources and mixes it all together into one big grid. Hydroelectric and nuclear mainly, with some coal and natural gas, and a tiny bit of wind.

Some bottled water is indeed tapwater. Also, some bottled water is actually trucked-in from pure springs. (If the bottle says "natural spring water", and it's not direct from a spring, that's false labeling.) It all depends on the brand and the plant. Sometimes they do both in the same plant, for different sub-brands.

Take it from a guy who's helped install water purification systems in these places.

Let's think about this for a sec.

Random account holder uploads large encrypted file with relatively meaningless name. They don't know who the uploader is and they don't have any sort of clue about what's in the file. Let's assume files like this get uploaded by countless users all the time, every day.

Do they waste their time and resources attempting to decrypt it? Possible, but very, very unlikely.

Oh yes, Apple realized this when they needed something more than a slightly faster Mac.

I'm not saying they'll do it again, but they've already been in a similar situation. Or do we forget 1997 so quickly?

And they're not really all that different than all the fandroids who click "buy" the very minute the latest (for that week) Android phone goes on sale online. The only real difference is one group leaves their house to buy it, and thereby gets noticed, and the other group doesn't.

Hey, I've got a couple of others:

If everyone simply spoke Mandarin, we'd all communicate better.

If everyone adopted Islam, there would be world peace.

If we all lived in free-market capitalist societies...

Etc, etc.

It's easy to tell everyone that they should adopt your platform.