From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.advocacy

On 1/15/2026 2:40 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:

Tom Elam wrote:

Most Apple posters on this newsgroup hate me because I don't fall for the >>> tricks so I don't belong to the cult, but I find them very interesting as a >>> result.

You did not answer my question. Look at how few people actually use
CSMA. Maybe a few dozen at most. If you feel this way why do you hide in
this neglected corner of the social platform universe? Do you not
actually believe in your own messaging? Are you afraid of being exposed
as the fraud you are if you go to a wider audience? Do you lack any
other interests? Are you mentally ill?

Your projection of others who respond on CSMA is interesting. They cite
verifiable sources that effectively counter your posts. You seem to
never respond directly to them. Instead you copy/paste your past post
contents.

Hi Tom Elam,

I do appreciate your observations as I read all that you post always.
Because you interest me.

I agree c.s.m.a and m.p.m.i do have only a handful of common posters.
What I "should" do is write a book about what Apple really is all about.

the future book would be modeled after "unsafe at any speed", which both doomed the Corvair but it turned it into a cult object at the same time.

If successful, it could halve Apple's TMV for a short period of time.
That's how much I know about Apple propaganda being based on lies.

I don't benefit from pushing Apple toward bankruptcy, and I don't care
about benefiting Android since I'm not an Android zealot, but I would like
to benefit the hundreds of millions of people who believe Apple's lies.

It's for them that I'd write the book covering the truth about Apple.

My "book" (unwritten) will discuss the typical Apple proponent on Usenet, which, of course, is whom I've been studying for oh, about fifteen years.

To that end, I find you interesting in that you feel Alan Baker and Snit
and Joerg Lorenz speak for the true Apple product, which fits my assessment of you since you seem to have a religious belief system that feels any
truth outside your religious belief system can't possibly be true.

While you seem to want me to respond to their insults instead of brining
the technical content back away from their taunts, I won't do that anymore.

Apparently when they deflect all criticism of Apple to, oh, say, Apple profits instead, you want me to discuss Apple profits instead of what I was technically discussing - but I'm not going to do that, Tom. I'm just not.

But I do thank you for describing to me how your religion works, as every
day I read EVERYTHING you write on this newsgroup, and I learn about you.

LOL! I do not care about Apple as a company. I like their products. Same
for Microsoft and Windows. Same for EGO and their lawn tools, Subaru and
their cars. One company I do almost worship is Cessna. I have flown
their aircraft almost exclusively since 1967.

Thinking you could depress Apple's stock price by half based on a book
by an unknown author is delusional. If you are as you claim retired and
been haunting CSMA for over a decade, but not written that book, you
likely never will. Anyway, criticism of Apple, it's products and
business practices, is hardly novel. Nor is your commentary herein
original, Don Quixote.
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On Jan 16, 2026 at 7:23:29 AM EST, "Tom Elam" <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> wrote:

Thinking you could depress Apple's stock price by half based on a book
by an unknown author is delusional.

All of Arlen's posts here - about imaginary "problems" with iPhones - are also delusional. That he continues to double down on his absurd claims - in the
face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary - is beyond delusional.

If you are as you claim retired and
been haunting CSMA for over a decade, but not written that book, you
likely never will. Anyway, criticism of Apple, it's products and
business practices, is hardly novel. Nor is your commentary herein
original, Don Quixote.

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Tom Elam wrote:

But I do thank you for describing to me how your religion works, as every
day I read EVERYTHING you write on this newsgroup, and I learn about you.

LOL! I do not care about Apple as a company. I like their products. Same
for Microsoft and Windows. Same for EGO and their lawn tools, Subaru and their cars. One company I do almost worship is Cessna. I have flown
their aircraft almost exclusively since 1967.

Thinking you could depress Apple's stock price by half based on a book
by an unknown author is delusional. If you are as you claim retired and
been haunting CSMA for over a decade, but not written that book, you
likely never will. Anyway, criticism of Apple, it's products and
business practices, is hardly novel. Nor is your commentary herein
original, Don Quixote.

Hi Tom Elam,

Thank you for your philosophical words of advice. It seems to me that explaining how Apple's marketing distorts reality for so many people may
or may not ever attract public attention the way "Unsafe at Any Speed"
did in the 1960s.

My point of view is that understanding how Apple products works is
important because most people seem to have no clue that Apple's stated
reasons for why they do things, is never what the real reasons appear to be once we apply a healthy dose of logic to sthe actual results.

For a simple yet super obvious example, Apple marketing claims to lock us
into a vise "for our protection" and yet, there is no added protection.

Think about that fact. There isn't a security professional on this planet
who agrees with Apple marketing propaganda, and yet most people do.

That's a pretty healthy criticism of Apple's propaganda, is it not?

Remember, criticism does not have to be novel to be worthwhile as Apple is
no more evil than Big Tobacco is. They're just more brilliant. That's all.

I, for one, appreciate Apple's brilliance in marketing where they can
transform even minor incremental updates into huge cultural events.

Apple's brilliant marketing polishes the mundane until it feels
indispensable to people who are susceptible to not questioning why.

I simply need to document the truth about Apple products. That's all.
History is built on people documenting the same patterns of incessant propaganda, until they are impossible to ignore by the intelligentsia.

If you are comfortable with Apple's practices, that is your prerogative.
I am simply different than most people in that it irks me when someone
kicks dogs and then tells you to your face the dog deserved to be kicked.

That's how Apple treats its customers.
I simply want to document the evil that is inherent in Apple's propaganda.

It's not to save me, as I never was confused about why Apple brazenly lies. It's to help others realize the truth about Apple products that drives me.

You can call that Don Quixote if you like, but every critique looks like windmill-tilting to someone who is already satisfied with propaganda.
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To make an Apple device do what it should do is a lesson in humility, perseverance & intellectual understanding that cannot be underestimated.

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