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People who participate in technology consumption as identity: apple vs pc, iOS vs android, Xbox vs PlayStation vs pc, etc
i'm currently guilty of being an apple fanboy but i had a traumatic experience that caused me to get a macbook years back and the ecosystem is so sticky so as a family we are all in these days.
i don't hate on people who don't use apple products though but i do encounter people with andriod phones explaining how much more horse power and better this and that is on their android phone. for me it's like... will my macbook know it's there and just figure out how to show me the messages and will my airpods just connect seamlessly? then i'm good
I had a buddy once try to convince me to buy a PC instead of Macbook, he's basically like "just buy this tower, this graphics card, this sound card, install this anti-virus, install this malware remover and run it about once a week, buy this, buy that, and in the end it'll save you like $500!" I'm like dude I'll pay the extra $500 to not have to do all that shit. Also I'm in graphic design and just prefer the Mac OS and working on Macs anyways.
Either way, I think it's because being into PCs is a serious hobby in and of itself.
Maybe even a lifestyle, shit I dunno lotta folks are really, really fuckin' into it.
Nowadays Apple seems to appeal more to people who are like "I don't want to have to modify or maintain this thing, I just want something that works and I'll pay extra for it."
agreed on your points. apple to pc/andriod like this to me
apple
- more expensive
- less configurations and maintenance
- less flexible (this used to be a major problem for me)
- lower maintenance
- more cohesive ecosystem with low configuration (my apple tv just knows i'm going to want to use my airpods)
- luxury brand/accessory
- not good for games
pc/android
- more affordable
- more flexible
- higher maintenance
- utilitarian/practical (not a luxury thing)
- great for gaming
- disjointed, high maintenance ecosystem
i'm not going to judge anyone based on this but i do a lot of business networking these days and i've noticed trends. entrepreneurs, startup crowd tend to have iphones while corp executives/conservative company executives tend to favor andriod. so at a networking event i might make some assumptions based on your phone.
Hey if you guys are willing to pay $500-1000 rather than take the 5 minutes it takes to install basic software (a form of which is actually baked into windows nowadays) then I'll be happy to be your "computer guy" for half that. I thought that hustle dried up in the mid 00s but apparently people are still falling for this "macs are easier to use/safer" shit.
I built my PC for less than $700 over half a decade ago and it will still run basically everything on the market. Literally never had an issue that wasn't caused my by own tinkering and my laptop has been set it and forget it for almost that long too, though I only use it for design work I can't do on my licensed software Mac workstation so it mostly sits in my desk drawer.
My take is and always has been that you've either got more money than sense or are falling for the marketing/want a status symbol (whether you're willing to admit it or even realize it or not). Taking the 10 seconds to pull my phone out and google the solution on the rare occasion I have a problem is pretty easy, so I'll pick that over forking over a significant part of my paycheck every year or two and having to take the shit I own to someone else because the company I bought it from won't let me fix it myself.
I’ve got 3 kids and my wife and we have a lot of devices. I don’t mind paying more and having less things to manage. The only computer in my house I’ve had to mess with is my sons gaming laptop. The best part too is if my wife is having a problem I just tell her to take it to the Apple Store, she’ll drop it off, do some shopping at the near by shops or grab lunch but I don’t have to do anything. My sons laptop, what a nightmare.
Ahhh so it's both.
You dont seem to even consider that you aren't actually managing less, you're just paying more to do it in a more restrictive environment because you don't know and are unwilling to learn how to do it with a PC. I'm telling you this objectively as a guy who has been using both Macs and PCs since mouses had one button and regularly switches between them... there is nothing that I can do with my mac but not my PC (other than feel smug about having one), while the inverse has so many examples I won't even start listing them.
If my or my loved ones computer has a problem I dont need to take it or myself anywhere. I can fix it right there on the spot or get bestbuy to same-day me the part if it's hardware related. At the actual cost of the part.
It's like having to take a setup you paid $500 for to the shop to get your bearings changed, them selling you a set of reds for $75 and sloppily installing them, and you still somehow thinking it's not only normal but they're doing you a favor. Blows my mind.
So, since the practical/objective argument falls apart very quickly I can't help but come to the conclusion that the reason most people choose them beyond ignorance is as a status symbol. You want people to know you can afford the hip, expensive company. And that's fine, as long you're honest about it (with yourself). They are better at showing off wealth, but not at being computers.
Please don't take this as a personal attack, you've just fallen perfectly into their marketing and apparently have a good enough job to have been thoroughly rinsed by them.
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