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Brand snobbery is definitely a thing that exists. I can only speak about Apple fans' snobbery because that's the one I've got personal experience with, but I have no doubt that there are plenty of Windows, Linux and Android snobs around as well.
I have an iPad because when I wanted a tablet, that was the only one with a form factor I liked.
I have an Android phone (now three years old) because at the time the Samsung Galaxy S2 seemed like the absolute best option there was, with a bigger screen than the then-available iPhones (that was important since I struggle to use Internet as is on it - anything even a bit smaller would have been worse) and better hardware than other Android phones available to me at the time.
I have a Windows 7 desktop (and a backup Windows 7 laptop for crisis situations, i.e. if the desktop fails during the workday) because I work from home and I need Windows for work.
Sadly I've had a number of experiences in which the mere mention that I find Apple computers really beautiful but unfortunately useless for my purposes (and far too expensive for mere toys) has brought on a pile of comments from otherwise perfectly normal Apple fans who have been enraged by the idea that an Apple desktop or laptop is - for MY purposes - useless. They've kept telling me that there are "alternatives" for everything for Macs, and that you can do "everything", and they've simply refused to believe that isn't the case.
For work, I use more than a dozen proprietary, very specific programs. Usually it's programs custom-made by specific clients for their own files and work. We regularly need to use not only a particular program for a particular client, but also a specific build for a specific job (and some I still need to run in XP Mode because the client hasn't made a newer version and they won't work on Windows 7 natively). The only way I could do my work on a Mac is if I ran Windows on it, and ... well, I can just as well use a Windows PC to start with.
That said, if I didn't have very real work reasons - and if Macs weren't so enormously, prohibitively expensive - I certainly wouldn't turn down a Mac. They are very pretty, and, I'm sure, extremely useful for a lot of people's purposes.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that people have loads of reasons for choosing the devices they do, and it's not always brand snobbery or even brand preference - sometimes there really are software (or hardware) related reasons for preferring one or the other.
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