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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I suppose I need to figure out...
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Some people just love to hate the biggest or most important companies.
I've got some friends who say that they hate Microsoft. Some even go as far as saying: "I use Apple and/or Linux because I hate Microsoft." They can't give any sound reasons for it. They give you some things they don't like in Windows or Office or whatever, while ignoring blatant shortcomings or even faults in the systems they use themselves.
One guy I know who used Linux for 10 years (he was an evangelist if ever there was one) now uses an Apple. He was all about "free choice, free software, change your system however you want, configure as much as possibe", and now HE USES AN APPLE COMPUTER. It's almost the complete opposite of a Linux computer. (Apart from the fact that they are both Unix or Unix-like machines.)
When I asked him "Why didn't you switch to Windows from Linux?", the reaction was: "I will *NEVER* use Microsoft products!" Then I asked: "Why?" The reaction was some blabber that could be summarized as "Microsoft is evil."
So, he didn't use Linux because of Free Software, or customizability or whatever. He doesn't use Apple because he likes OS X or needs a program that only runs on OS X. He used Linux, and now Apple, because they're both not Microsoft.
Some people just do everything they can to avoid the biggest, or most popular or most important company just because of that: because they're the biggest, most popular, or most important.
There will be people who don't want a Kindle just because of the fact that it's the dominant e-reader at this point in time, and they try to cloak it by saying "I hate Amazon", while they can't give any actual reasons for hating Amazon.
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I will never use Apple products (again), and I have reasons for that. The most important one is that I find Apple to be an arrogant company that wants to control everything, from the hardware down to the software; they'd like it best if you use their computer with the hardware they choose, their OS, their cloud, their phone, their television settop box (in the future, maybe their television), their tablet, and someday, maybe even their car and their Domotica system.
A lot of stuff that is primarily developed for Windows (like Microsoft Office, as prime example, by Microsoft), also is available for OS X, even though that OS only holds about 8% market share (at least, in Europe). The other way around, a lot of stuff that is primarily developed for OS X, does NOT run on Windows (Like Aperture, and Final Cut, by Apple).
The 90% market share company goes through the trouble to make their most important stuff available on an OS that only holds 8%, but the other way around, the favor is not or barely returned.
Apple has an aura of "Don't worry... Just use our products. You don't need to look anywhere else. We know what's best for you. You don't NEED anything else but Apple."
THAT is the reason why I hate Apple. *I* know what's best for me. How can *they* possibly know?
That annoys the hell out of me.
One of my colleagues once said: "Why should I have to think when using a computer? Steve Jobs already has done that for me." That's the pinnacle of the perfect Apple user: Steve Jobs thinks for me.
I feel sorry for that guy. He must feel very bad, having to live without a brain since October 5, 2011.