I don't get it. I really don't. How can a company keep screwing over it's customers, face criticism left and right, be known for bending and now even exploding phones, unrepairable "professional" computers, throttling, horrible service and even being a laughing stock on normalfag websites like reddit and youtube. And STILL they keep making more money. STILL their brand name goes up in value.
Is this company above criticism? Are they a church? Do people continue to give them money because they believe they must do so? Someone please make sense of it all.
pretty much, people who buy apple products are beyond stupid, they get it because they are tech illiterate and then get hooked into the whole brand. at the end of the day they don't sell tech, they sell their brand, and that's what people buy, that shiny apple decal on all their shit.
Be diligent and ensure you buy only the most economical products. Don't be a fool.
James Gutierrez
We aren't in late stage capitalism at all. What kind of reddit propaganda have you been reading sweetie?
Most of the "problems" you note aren't even problems. Devices don't need to be repaired, they just go to the apple bar and get them replaced. >laughing stock on normalfag websites like reddit and youtube I haven't seen that at all. Are you talking about all the comments from brown posters? Of course they're seething, they're samsung fanboys. Look at any video about samsung, and 99% of the posters are indians talking about how samsung (or xiaomi) are SOooOOoOOO much better.
Landon Morgan
What stage of capitalism are we in then?
Asher Turner
No, because the question is why people would buy something for $1000, especially when they did the same thing last year and that something is still working fine.
Jaxson Lee
capitalism doesn't have stages (neither does communism or socialism or any other brand) stages are a way for brainlets to try and understand concepts that exceed their abilities
Levi Sullivan
don't believe Jow Forums memes, most people are happy with their apple products.
the reality is the alternative is usually shit, for smartphones it's lagdroid and for computers it's winshit.
Hudson Martin
because it just werks(r) and competitors are even more retarded
Ayden Powell
It's this. You invest into an iPhone once in 4 years and during those 4 years you have a great experience. It doesn't get deprecated on day one like android, they keep rolling out updates for like 5 years.
Aiden Gutierrez
Because they know how to do marketing like no one else. Other companies think they are going to get ahead by releasing better products. Your average person, which is an easily exploitable idiot, doesn't know anything about anything, he just wants shiny thing, so while other companies are out making good products, apple is just making them shiny while releasing a sea of shills online to create massive social pressure on the people who aren't using shiny thing.
Jace Nelson
i don't like iphones personally but people like them because they just werk. i love my android phone but there are times when it does dumb shit that i know wouldn't happen on an iphone.
as for macbooks, they're the only sensible choice for software dev.
>>linux >incompatible drivers >shit crashing all the time >you will inevitably face problems unless you're only using packages directly supported by your distro >missing a lot of commercial software support
>>windows >lots of stuff is not supported >shitty commandline >have to use GUIs for everything, including setting environment variables
Leo Moore
i got an iphone se 2 years ago and i had zero problems with it, unlike with my past android smartphones (that were a little bit cheaper). apple products are good. but i’d never spend more than 400 euros on a phone.
Jose Cooper
People aren't rational.
Joseph Martinez
I never understood the lagdroid meme. Even my old Moto G was pretty much free of lag, only thing that was an issue were demanding 3D games. I can understand computers though, I have a Macbook myself. But the recent models have become so much worse than I just can't understand why people keep buying them. Minor hardware improvements are a poor trade-in for a a horrible keyboard, emoji bar and having only USB-C ports imo.
Daniel Lewis
I’m in awe at much smarter and better you guys are compared to hundreds of millions of customers and a trillion dollar company. I mean they are obviously brain dead. I can buy a $300 phone that does the same exact thing, why can’t others see things like us.
Austin Johnson
Why do you eat nice food when you can eat rice and vitamins and live? Why do people buy branded clothes when you can buy unbranded for 500% less Why do people needlessly shitpost on Mongolian image boards?
The hard questions in life.
Justin Sanders
My thinkpad is more then enough to do everything I’ll ever need. Total cost $300 with upgrades I picked up at a flea market. Apple products and people who buy them are a joke.
Dylan Scott
>no stages >few people having most of the wealth is the same as lots of people having most of the wealth
James Ramirez
Excellent marketing. Apple is a pretty fucking good marketing company.
Owen Williams
>>mac >missing a lot of commercial software >xprotect will (silently!) stop execution of binaries you rely on >you will inevitably face problems unless you're only using special macos apps >thermal thottles to near halt when putting any kind of serious load on sub $5000 hardware >performance is garbage even when not throttling (1.5x build times compared to windows on equal hardware, 2x compared to linux) >unix tools from mid 90s
>as for macbooks, they're the only sensible choice for software dev. >software dev >notebook does not compute, or as microsoft build tools woud put it: -1
Nathaniel Morris
>people sheep aren't people, dumbass
Dylan Cook
OP, dont ever doubt the stupidity of normies, the only reason apple still is such a huge company is because still believe their products are the best just because other famous normies us them Nothing against apple products, they have its flaws and I wouldn't buy them, but I can see why some people would. Still, holding them as some sort of holy grail is beyond help, not for apple but for every company who has their fair share of brainlet fanboys
Adam Parker
>for smartphones it's lagdroid and for computers it's winshit. I wont take this bait
It is a common marketing tactic in the high end seasonal fashion market, which sadly has crossed over to phones. You make a cheap product, but slap an expensive logo on it. The high price gives the illusion of the product being more premium. Apple products have become status symbols and fashion accessories instead of technology.
Henry Gomez
>>software dev >>notebook what's wrong with that mate?
Eli Richardson
Whatever you say, pajeet.
Robert Jones
It's the best supported Unix environment that "just works" they are starting to do mass deals with companies to replace all their windows boxes with Macs. Same with school. Apple is the new Microsoft Their phone revenue and cult helps keep them going while their computers slowly infect businesses
DESU OP if you worked in an office and they said hey you want a Mac or a PC? What would you say? Personally I'd go Mac.
