People who stick the apple logo on their car: Why?
People who stick the apple logo on their car: Why?
I dont often see stickers on cars but when I do, one of them is the apple logo. What is it for?
Edit: I'm in Germany in case that's relevant
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Seems like a good way to let a thief know you have an Apple computer at home. In general, stickers on ones car is a bad idea from a privacy and security perspective.
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This feels more like Facebook Karen paranoia than an actual flag for thieves, which I think are less and less common these days anyway.
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Its not about who is potentially seeing the info, its that the info is available to anyone.
What of you accidentally cut off some psycho on the highway? Well now they know where you live and when you'll likely leave. People have been stalked and murdered for less.
Opsec isn't just about deterring thieves, or governments, or other bad actors. Its about minimizing what information you freely give to the world, so it may not be used against you by anyone.
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Yeah an Apple sticker on a 2001 Civic doesn't scream "expensive toys".
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It does suggest that maybe I bought an iPod shuffle a decade ago...
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In the USA, it's not rare for people to have gun manufacturer stickers on their car.
Imagine you're a thief and you see a Smith&Wesson sticker on a car parked outside a building where carrying guns is forbidden.
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What does it say about me if my car has a "honk if you're a goose" sticker and the brand badges removed?
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The only sticker I have on my car is from a insurance that I'm not even subscribed to lol. I just like the design.
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You get the stickers with many of their products. Many stickers going around. Sometimes someone thinks, why not put it on there.
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What other places have you noticed them? I only found them on cars so far and thought there must be a reason for it
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I put one on my coffee pot at work. It's my iPot.
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Suitcase, laptops, furniture, windows, like any other sticker. Being an apple fan used to be quite trendy only 10 years ago. And is still common.
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You only see them on cars because they are out in public view. You’re just not seeing all the other things people have decided to put stickers on.
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Brand fanboys + free stickers.
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Brandlickers.
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Consumerism, Fanboyism and a feeling of superiority. In Germany Apple had a much smaller market share than in the US and people liked to show off that they can afford a Mac.
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There was an open sourced culture among Apple users in the mid 90s, they had a lot of free tools for teaching, so it became a brand for artists and teachers. MS was more seen as a business brand.
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In Germany Apple had a much smaller market share than in the US
That's true nearly everywhere, isn't it? Just talking about mobile OS saturation, the iPhone is mostly an American phenomenon AFAIK. Android market share globally is like 75%+, unbeknownst to many Apple users in the US apparently.
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Japan as well
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I feel like this was a lot more common ten or fifteen years ago, at least around here. Anymore most of the car stickers I see are either some political shit or about their dogs.
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Marketing. They give you a decent quality sticker with most of their products, which becomes free advertising
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And the person who made that article even included a photo of an Apple sticker on their own car!
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I imagine it's because all Apple products come with that sticker (or did when I actually bought stuff from them back when the iPod was the best mp3 player around) and the thing you got is either too small for it or already has a logo on it, so the car is the next best spot to slap 'em on.
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Yeah, when you get a "free" sticker, you tend to stick it to something. Even more so, if the sticker is shiny and cool looking.
I got some MSI stickers with my old GPU and was tempted to stick them somewhere. Ultimately didn't, because they didn't match the aesthetic of anything and I consider it as bad for heat dissipation, so wasn't going to put them on such surfaces anyway.
ASUS gave a velcro cable-tie though and even though the laptop was shit, I tend to use the cable-tie quite a bit.
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Stickers like that don't bother me much, as people often get them for free and naturally sometimes feel an urge to stick them on something.
What blows my mind are the douchebags who pay a premium to buy some t-shirt or cap that's essentially a walking billboard for fashion brands.
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They're free and where else would they stick them? On their macbooks?
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People who
stick theApplelogo on their car: Why?FTFY.
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Wow what a fresh take
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About as fresh as that worm pulp in a candy red shell, so 🤷🏼♂️
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Apple ‽
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Apple‽FTFY.
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I think people get these stickers for free when they purchase an Apple product, but don’t know where to put it, so they wind up putting it on their car.
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Back in the nineties I was told off that Windows users are fanatical to their OS by a girl with one single sticker on her bicycle and it was the Apple logo.
We worked in the same music studio with exclusively Apple computers and my money job was administration of an office with mixed Windows and Linux and BSD environment.
I never had problems with either OS but I did have problems with Apple hardware being 2-3x the price for performance back in the days when performance mattered.
I dunno if she mistook some single mouse button banter as something personal or what. Needless to say she didn't take it well when I laughed it off and told her I don't decorate anything with neither penguins or the Windows logo.
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Poor people are confused and think affording overpriced tech means they are wealthy. But they're just slightly less poor.
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This sounds like what Fox News programs it’s viewers to think of poor people
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Stupid!
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I have 18 years of Apple stickers laying around. Some of my stickers could drive a car.
I don’t put stickers on my car though. And this year I bought my first Linux computer in 15 years (I’m very unimpressed with Tim Cook and Trump, and diversifying out of American tech).
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it's a sticker. stickers are fun to stick on stuff. apple gives out stickers, most PC companies dont'.
a lot of things in life are not purposeful.
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You don’t often see stickers on cars?
Are you sure it isn’t the logo of the National Education Association? That is the largest teacher’s Union in the US.
Also there are many regional and local. Teachers organizations that will use a stylization of an apple as their logo.
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Stickers on cars are not really common in many countries.
Besides the occasional "child on board" or local soccer club sticker, they are e.g. almost nonexistant here in Germany.
But Apple stickers have been a thing that deviated from that rule, so it stood out, a few years ago.
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I think that it's pride in staying with a company that weakened their batteries from afar so they would spend more of their hard-earned cash on a new apple device. Weird values.
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I found a rainbows one from the 90s so I put it on because it was cool and retro and I love rainbows.
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Because company car and corporate branding...... I don't even work for them but they are a customer/supplier.
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On the flipside, one of my laptops as a "Hertz gold standard clean seal"-sticker on it.
My wife uses mac and gets a lot of these stickers.
I put them on everything because I find it silly: my Thinkpad, my Nintendo Switch, the cat toilet...
Is the cat toilet a litter box, or an actual toilet?
Real question being asked here.
Toilet made out of cats.
Cat sized actual toilet
That being said, I'm not OP, so who knows.
Depends on your tolerance for stretched definitions, but it's one of those covered litterboxes a door.
An Apple sticker on a Thinkpad? Please, tell me you also installed Linux on it. That would be peak irony, right there.
I had an HP laptop that was silver in color and looked similar to a macbook. I put an Apple sticker on the HP logo and had Arch running on it.
I used to have a job processing used laptops from offices and you would not believe how many people put Apple stickers on Thinkpads and other non-Apple products. I guess for a lot of them it's like saying, "I'd rather be using a Mac," or it was just to be silly, I have no idea.
Ya, it's a work laptop so cut the disk in half and installed Pop!OS Linux on one half and kept Windows just in case work needed it.
Then I needed GUIX OS and installed it over the Windows partition, so it's a dualboot Linux/Linux now.
Maybe I should put two Apple stickers on it.
I used to stick them on servers and firewalls at work, I thought it was funny.
Likewise, back when I built my first big pants real PC out of actual new components and not just hand-me-down bullshit cannibalized from decommissioned office stuff, I put the plethora of stickers that came with everything on the little rear triangle windows on my car. As if they were riceboy components instead, which in a way I suppose they were. Many of them were those textured stamped aluminum ones and they survived for quite a long time.
Surely at least one confused tuner saw this and puzzled over what the hell G.Skill and MSI "car parts" were supposed to do.
Here's another sign of the times: Out of all the parts for my current rig, only two of them came with stickers. What a rip-off. My processor came with an AMD sticker (just a cheap vinyl one this time) and my motherboard came with an Aorus sticker which is at least textured metal. I stuck both of them to the inside of the front door on my case.