yr pathetic vitriol for a share of the market that is less than ten per cent is hilarious! how afraid you must feel. get over it!
It’s got nothing to do with vitriol, or market share, or even Apple as a company or the products that they make, which are often excellent on their own merits. I just don’t understand why so many otherwise intelligent people revel in drinking the Apple koolaid like they’re part of some kind of creepy cult. It’s just a brand, and a corporation for fucks sake. I feel no particular allegiance to any platform or brand of product* (I know: go me!) so it baffles me when I hear about people lining up for the opening of a new Apple store, like the one at Chermz. Do they know that higher quality products are available for a fifth of the cost? If they did know, would they care? These things are supposed to be tools, not lifestyle choices or an identity implant. And it’s not like I’m anticonsumerist or opposed to loving stuff in general, when it is good stuff, as Apple stuff often is. But the blind devotion some people have to this company (an Apple sticker on your bumper? on your PC notebook? Really?) just allows them to gouge you with prices like the one in the previous post. Fools and their money though, as they say.
We recently established that one of the three economics terms I actually know is Veblen good. Do mac products qualify?
*Except tabasco sauce.
but - i am pretty sure computer cultism started with PCs. like windows 95. remember that? it seems you have singled out some cult conveniently not your own. curious.
