I've always taken a little bit of pride in the fact that I've never owned or used Apple products :)

Here in Denmark it feels like a cult. Even stretching to schools buying apple products for the kids to use. Kids asking adults what iPhone they have, the superiority they feel having apple vs. Android. And the kids feeling pressure to have the newest from apple. It's insane. The biggest succes for apple is their brainwash marketing.

I never understood the fervor for apple. In the early days of PCs they DID have better hardware for processing graphics. I've heard that from more than one graphics profession doing effects for TV shows (stuff we take for granted these days like a scroll bar under the news). But that was "long ago and far away". Apple also = higher prices, proprietary hardware, hiding your files on your device, intentionally making repairs difficult, documented cases of bad advice / expensive unneeded repairs from their 'geniuses' and so on.

Fanboy war below. I don't care what tech you prefer. Let people use what they want FFS.

I love Apple and will take my iPhone to my deathbed. You'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers.

Love the hating. There’s way better things to get bent out of shape about. If you don’t like Apple there’s a really simple option available to you, don’t buy it. That’s it, that’s all there is to it.

The last apple product I ever owned was a IIe, and it will remain that way. They don't make computers, they make appliances. After Steve Wozniak left the day to day operations, EVERYTHING they make is garbage.

Sounds like Scientology. It's the Apple product of religion's.

For some people it's there personality. They just can't stop preaching the miracles and wonders of apple.

I don't do Apple. They're like that annoying little wazzock from school who used to bring his football in, then insisted on all kinds of rules in his favour if you wanted to play in the game.

Nobody is forcing anybody to buy Apple products. Don't buy them if you feel this way. I used to use Android and then ended up with a Apple iPhone because work pays for my phone now. I prefer Apple. I have a MacBook that I prefer over the several PC laptops that I have had in the past. I'm not gaming or anything though. Each has their purpose.

It took me a while but I started replacing all my appple products. Once wireless headphones with no port for anything else I was like I'm done.

This! Apple is one of the worst examples of this. I kind of understood when Apple had a GUI and PCs had a C:> prompt but it's 2024. Stop wasting money to enrich Apple people!

It's okay to have a different opinion or even dislike something. But calling it a scam?

Yeah but I have an apple product, and there's a picture of an apple on it, and you don't so there!

I partly agree. I never joined, as the prices (to me) where never acceptable, and the anti-competitive practises disgust me. And nothing they offer ever forced me to join the "family". I am talking music / video production, photography etc.

Android only, iPhone is sh**t

Apple has turned into the thing that Mac users of the 1990s accused Microsoft of being.

Unhappily, the "other" app store is just a predatory.

Just look at the logo. If the products were any good there would be more than 1 bite missing.

"but it's got the best video editing and blah blah blah." No, it doesn't. I can assure you I can build you something for less that does more.

My brother in law works for them. I keep my mouth shut.

I was an Apple fanboy for 30 years. I have been cured.

Most games don't run well on Mac. Linux can emulate Windows to run its software, but can be finicky so using it is basically a hobby on its own.

The fact this isn't number #1 by 90% is testament to the fact people will buy garbage to impress strangers.

I hope the sec gets them too. They need to change their practices.

Proud Samsung lol

But the sheep keep paying attention to Apple when they start bleating.