> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Thomas Burgess wrote: > > This is a far cry from an apples to apples comparison though. > > As much as I'm no fan of Apple, it's a pity they dropped ZFS because > that would have brought considerable attention to the opportunity of > marketing and offering zfs-suitable hardware to the consumer arena. > Port-multiplier boxes already seem to be targetted most at the Apple > crowd, even it's only in hope of scoring a better margin. > > Otherwise, bad analogies, whether about cars or fruit, don't help. > > It might help people to understand how ridiculous they sound going on and on about buying a premium storage appliance without any storage. I think the car analogy was dead on. You don't have to agree with a vendors practices to understand them. If you have a more fitting analogy, then by all means lets hear it.
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