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I have never nderstood people buying Apple.

Some people here mention paying a premium for a premium service but i dont see it:

- best case scenario you buy a tech which is 1 year ahead in quality, but if you buy a computer for min 5 years this reasoning makes not so much sense to me.

- you still have a thousand limitations such as games, compatibility with other devices, being locked in and the planned slowdown of devices when new releases are here..

Most people i know who had apple computers or phones did not even buy it for argument 1. They were just laypeople who just bought it because they thought it was cool, and actually were surprised by all the limitations afterward.

To apple only made their money on the power of FAME and "coolness" only. I dont see how the "product" has ever been any better at any point. (Ok except the iphone in the first smartphone years.)

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I’m a developer, I’m a music producer, I almost exclusively use touch pads, I hate Windows, and in general I don’t want to futz around with my operating system. I want shit to just work and I don’t want my OS to constantly badger me and show me ads.

So yeah, I’ll stick with my Mac purely because it is “cool” even though it has sooo many limitations that make it unbearable to use on a daily basis

I understand it as a music producer because of Logic, but I don't understand it as a developer. At all to be honest.

Being a developer doesn't automatically mean you should hate Apple. I'm a developer, and I don't.

I don't hate Apple, I recommend it for certain users. But it cannot really supply me with anything that isn't available to me while maintaining more freedom and flexibility. I also don't like to develop against their environment since I think it to be too restrictive.

It’s a Unix with millions of dollars in UI/UX. There’s a lot of things to like.

I do think the UI is good but not that revolutionary better than their competitors. And while not true per se, I don't associate Unix with hard vendor lock in.

As a happy Apple user I completely disagree. You can just use their products as they intended and it works well. If you run into limitations, there are alternatives. My kids love gaming on the Apple TV and iPad. And if they want to play a blockbuster game, they use a console. I can't think of other limitations I ran into.

Is it perfect? No. But the "it just works" slogan is still true enough to relieve me from the duties of a system administrator for my own family, like when we were using Windows. Spending and entire evening reinstalling Windows because the sound card stopped working after an update is not my hobby. I have 3 Raspberry Pi's running in this household and that's enough sysadmin work for me.

Yes it's expensive, but less than you'd think. Try reselling a year old Windows PC. Almost impossible. A year old Macbook? You can sell it within 15 minutes for a good price.

> Try reselling a year old Windows PC. Almost impossible. A year old Macbook? You can sell it within 15 minutes for a good price.

So the biggest advantage of Macs is that you can get rid of them easily? :)

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