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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
You are within your right to not like Apple but to look down upon others because they don't share your views is just as trifling.
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Calling someone ignorant because they don't know much about technology is not looking down. It's an honest, factual statement. I'm aware that the term 'ignorant' tends to have offensive overtones, but I don't mean it in that way.
Apple is doing some terrible things, and I don't like to see people supporting them. I have every right (and duty) to call Apple users out on their enabling of Steve Jobs's vendetta against consumers. I don't deny their right to use those products, but if I see a chance to educate people a bit about them I will take it.
Apple did some great things in the past (they gave us $1 digital music, their computers used to be among the best, the original iPhone did a lot to get Google and Microsoft to create better platforms), but today they represent the worst of the tech world.
I couldn't care less if someone shares my views or not, but I do care when someone has a view that I feel is not informed. I am really saddened by how much marketing has come to replace facts and objectivity in peoples' decision making these days. And Apple is one of the major contributors and benefactors of that.