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| Re: OT: New Apple ad on website [message #93812 is a reply to message #93805] |
Fri, 21 December 2007 10:58  |
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>>>>"John" <no@no.com> wrote:
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>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Tu5CPVoP8
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>>>>>hehe
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>>>>>I just started running vista and I gotta say, yeah baby , it sucks
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>I'm sure a Mac with FCP is a hell of a lot cheaper than a full blown Avid
system. At least somebody's got sense enough to pour piss out of a boot.
There is quite a bit of difference between a discount and giving away the
stuff for free! So what is this great discount? What can you get us Mac
towers for?
Martin Harrington <lendan@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>Well...
>I do know that Apple have been VERY generous to our National Broadcaster.
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>They have started shooting with Panasonics Pro P2 type camera, and the
>powers that be decided that Final Cut Pro would be used throughout the
>network, (with some convincing by Apple, me thinks).
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>Before that it was PC / Avid based.
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>Consequently, the network had to be fitted out with Macs, HUGE order),
>including using their new Media server software that no-one in Australia
had
>yet implemented.
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>As a by-product of that transition, Apple offered EXTREMELY generous deals
>to the staff on any Mac product....
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>Don't tell me that's not buying your way in.
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>Martin Harrington
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>On 20/02/08 10:52 AM, in article 47bb5db9$1@linux, "James McCloskey"
><excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> I don't know every move Apple has made, I'm sure they have done some
>> charitable
>> things in the past, but they have never made it a practice of giving away
>> product to steal educational market share, Microsoft has, and it's a well
>> known fact! MS has given major universities free computers and software
>> so MS dominates their curriculum, it's a fact! Of course a Microsoft
>> certified
>> IT guy would defend Microsoft's business practices.
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>> "TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote:
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>>> First, if I owned a single share of Yahoo stock (thank god I don't) I'd
>> be
>>> calling for the board to be strung up on by their balls. Here you have
a
>>> company t
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