7mo ago

Why don’t you like Apple?

Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

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price
closed ecosystem that funnels you into buying more overpriced hardware
general feeling of superiority apple customers often seem to aquire
(e.g. my former project lead refused to touch other peoples devices because using them "doesn't feel like apple, eww")
- All that.
  BTW, of all the drivers on the road, I always hated Volvo drivers who sport an Apple sticker the most. They're pure entitled no-good scum. Except BMW drivers, they should be euthanised.
  
  What kind of image do Volvo drivers have where you live? Here Volvos are just seen as reliable but boring.
  
  Here in Slovenia they have this sort of hipster/yuppie clientele, basically the same demographic as the smug Apple users, that's why you see so many with Apple stickers. Usually they drive the estate version like XC70. The new SUVs are more for the executive smug base, though, but obviously they're still scumbags. :)
  
  Ah, here it is BMW drivers, most have Apple stickers on their cars, and they are all douchebags.
  
  I still have to encounter a BMW driver who isn't a piece of trash. Note that I actually raced with BMWs, but still wouldn't buy one as a daily driver. 🤷🏼
- Overpriced hardware comes with a boon: It lasts longer. I am by no means an apple fanboy, but when I discovered the 12 year old Mac of my dad still performed like mid-range PCs with Windows, I was quite surprised.
  Still not buying their hardware though…
  
  Except a 12 year old Mac isn't supported by Apple anymore and will likely be riddled with vulnerabilities. You could just load Linux on it since it's probably an Intel based chipset.
  
  It depends on the chipset. The big changes in chipset have been the big barriers for Mac upgradability. My father ran a 10 year old MacBook that was still running the latest MacOS until he found that his 4GB of RAM wasn’t going to be enough and bought a new one (without talking to me first). I had a PPC MacBook that ran on the latest MacOS for about 6 years after Apple switched to Intel.
  
  Also the hardware support is not great, for example the webcam. I installed Linux on my old MBP but it was a hassle to get the webcam working involving some dubious command line entries with sudo
  
  As long as the OS was supported, updates were available.
  But yes, I loaded a nice Fedora on it… 😉
  
  Check out Louis Rossman on youtube. Especially his apple hardware design analysis.
  
  Rossman has a vendetta against Apple ever since he got caught importing counterfeit batteries (You can’t slap the Apple logo on batteries that Apple did not make, even if you call them “refurbished”)

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