Why do people buy into apple BS?

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I love my iPhone4. It does everything I need and I've been happy with everything about it so I will not look elsewhere until such point as I'm disappointed in them.
 
I forgot to mention too, last week, I was eating a bourbon cream and my mates were well jealous coz they only had custard creams and they wanted my bourbon creams, so that must mean that bourbon creams > everything right? :p
 
wez130 said:
I forgot to mention too, last week, I was eating a bourbon cream and my mates were well jealous coz they only had custard creams and they wanted my bourbon creams, so that must mean that bourbon creams > everything right? :p
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Why do people buy into custard cream BS? :p
 
Apple owners, like any other type of religious zealot are so easy to get a rise out of if you insult their 'god'. Apple owners actually put me off ownership myself due to the cheerleading forums where it's almost impossible to get a coherent answer about anything. I sold my Macbook recently.
 
MrMoonX said:
OP is just jealous he doesnt run a company worth billions, with a rock solid brand
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A rock solid brand that target idiots who pay for over priced fashionable technology that's no different from anything else on the market. I've never bought anything from Apple they just don't have anything I want, it all just feels gimmicky.


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Occasionally... just very occasionally... I forget why someone is on my ignore list. Usually however they then confirm very shortly after that musing why they are on there.

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Skillmister said:
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The iPad is widescreen, turn it sideways :P



Seriously though imo the iPad is now on borrowed time, and for the same reason that the Mac was surpassed by IBM compatibles back in the day. Apples dominance of the PC market (yes a Mac is a PC, deal with it) was hard to challenge but Microsoft (not IBM) managed to destroy it, the method was simple, IBM clones functioned just like the real thing and Microsoft's DOS became available on more and more systems, as time went on people started writing programs for the O/S that the most people used (DOS).

Fast forward to 2011 and Macs don't even use propriety hardware any more, all they are is the same spec system dell will sell you but 3x the price, and as much as people rave about OSX being better/more stable than Windows it simply isn't true.

The tablet market will mimic the 1980's scenario, be it a Google O/S or a Microsoft O/S, Apples biggest strength (completely controlling the hardware/software and the user experience) has also historically been their greatest weakness...
 
Why do people buy fashionable clothes? Why is that OK - and it's not like there's not people on here spending £60 on a t-shirt or whatever - but it's not OK to buy fashionable electrical goods?

More pertinently, why do people start troll threads?
 
Wicksta said:
Apple owners, like any other type of religious zealot are so easy to get a rise out of if you insult their 'god'. Apple owners actually put me off ownership myself due to the cheerleading forums where it's almost impossible to get a coherent answer about anything. I sold my Macbook recently.
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So, according to your sig you own a BMW then? LOL. Ahahaha. BMW drivers are all middle aged men who came into a bit of money with an anger complex. Enjoy your gas guzzling, environment polluting unnecessary road car as you are stuck in a traffic jam revving your mighty engine going nowhere.

Attack anything somebody else loves is insulting and degrading. Me saying BMW drivers put me off buying a BMW to you, is the exact equivalent of what you have written. Grow up.
 
The big trouble with Apple is this:

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This can be applied to macbooks and Iphones too. People who are saying "Oh but the Iphone just works" well an Android or Win7 phone "just works" too and is a darn sight cheaper.

Apples hardware is not bad its just their pricing is absolutely ludicrous.

Oh and MacOS sucks a fat one but iOS is not too bad...shame you can't actually do anything with it but that is irellevant for most people.

Hats off to Apple's marketing department, they could get people to pay for air, sorry iAir.
 
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To be honest I have been on both sides of the fence and I actually prefer the world outside of the Apple walled garden, I have had major problems with Apple getting it to do what I want and making it do Scientific work is a bloody nightmare it just doesn't work no matter how much it claims to be unix based its 'unique' approach to development makes it a pain in the arse.
 
Threads like these make me laugh, accusations of Apple fanboi-ism are hilarious. None of the Apple users I know are cheerleaders or feel the need to rabidly defend Apple at every opportunity. Sure if I asked them to show me their Apples they're only too happy to explain and share knowledge, and this was a large part of the reason why I'm transitioning to Apple.

It seems to me like the only people who regularly take up unreasonable positions are the Apple haters, who seem to take every opportunity to criticise Apple (e.g. this thread). I even had a email from a colleague at work yesterday gloating that Apple's share of the smart phone market had gone down sharply - like that somehow makes the fact I like my iPhone invalid. Quite a few people at work have switched from iPhones to HTCs and it's quite amusing how quickly they turn into Apple-haters. It's almost like they constantly have to justify their decision to move to a cheaper, non-premium product :cool:

I have to admit, I don't get Tablets though.
 
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The image starts with "mac computers are more popular today nowadays than they've ever been" that's not really true unless you massage the statistics, they may be posting record sales but that's due to more people owning a computer these days, the macs market share however isn't what it once was, they used to be more popular.

Agree with everything else in it though lol
 
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pioneer2000 said:
Hmmm, I think you'll find though that brand and usability are the 2 key points here.

Apple
Porsche
Ray ban
Montblanc

None of these boast the cutting edge of their particular fields but produce incredibly refined, useable and premium products- doing exceedingly well from it.

Samsung are mushing as much tech as they can into a flimsy plastic box to try to compensate for not having a particularly strong package overall (I.e the underlying software, app store, lack of iTunes store).
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yes, buying Ray Bans, or anything from Porche is relatively as stupid, however, Porche is significantly better quality than most cars, with more expensive and better components than some average car, more expensive AND BETTER while made with more expensive parts is one thing, more expensive for no other reason than branding is just daft. Like I said before, if people simply refused to pay obscene Apple prices, Apple would reduce prices, and Apple fans could go on buying the same stuff, for less money, then, errm, no one loses? Apple make 5 billion a year instead of 15billion, so a group of a dozen board members end up with a smaller amount of billions they couldn't spend in a lifetime..... I feel soooo bad for them.

IF people were sensible and just paid a fair market value for just about everything, products would drop to fair market value prices.

nonhelmet said:
Why do people buy fashionable clothes? Why is that OK - and it's not like there's not people on here spending £60 on a t-shirt or whatever - but it's not OK to buy fashionable electrical goods?

More pertinently, why do people start troll threads?
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Nope, designer clothes aren't fine and are also a con, someone buys a £5 blue t-shirt, or pays 10 times the cost for the same t-shirt with a specific logo on it, completely retarded.

Honestly, anyone that spends more than £20 on a top quality t-shirt, is living in an unmistakable cone of ignorance.
 
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scorza said:
Threads like these make me laugh, accusations of Apple fanboi-ism are hilarious. None of the Apple users I know are cheerleaders or feel the need to rabidly defend Apple at every opportunity. Sure if I asked them to show me their Apples they're only too happy to explain and share knowledge, and this was a large part of the reason why I'm transitioning to Apple.
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That's nothing to do with Apple though. People have always been happy to explain their latest bit of technology to an interested party. I bet if you went back far enough, after someone's just pioneered a breakthrough in arrow-heads, he'd be happily enough to explain its functionality to his peers if quizzed.

The difference with some Apple consumers these days is that they're only too keen to tell you they own an iproduct, which is grating. It all comes down to status anxiety. They're effectively name-dropping so as to appear to be keeping up appearences with their peers. It's not the product themselves that people are irritated at, it's this stupid side of human nature.
 
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