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Originally Posted by holymadness
Here is another perfect example of cognitive dissonance.
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The cognitive dissonance is this: Individuals' conflation of their own personal opinion and experience with the habits of consumers as a group. It's the human-to-human herd equivalent of anthropomorphism.
It also turns corporate branding wars into a consumers' competition, which would be more palatable if we actually owned one of the teams in that tournament.
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The reason Apple is supposed to be anti-consumer is that they establish "walled gardens" in contrast to "open" platforms.
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In terms of my own priorities and those of professionals I work with, the ability to upgrade and tailor one's hardware to usage requirements is key. In that sense, I'd say Apple has had hits and misses. They've had far more misses of late (due to the systematic removal of customization options for laptops and PCs), but they could always come around.
But that doesn't have much to do with topic of this thread -- Apple's legal/political strategy -- does it?