remind me again why Apple products or iPhone's are so popular?
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You mistook weaboo for hipster...
Weaboo and Hipster, two goes well together
In what way?It's a good consumer, it buys new things every day because that shit is so old.
It's a good consumer, it buys new things every day because that shit is so old.
I get the feeling you people dont understand the term weeaboo...I was talking about hipster, don't care about prpavi :P
it's worth the price.
Personally I dont like Appleproducts, but I dont really mind em either. I dont really get why PCpeople have such hate over it. So they got a large marketshare aswell. Its not like Apple is forcing anybody at gunpoint. Honestly most PCfanboys who furiously shittalk Apple have never even fucking touched a single of its products in their life and they hate its guts, simply because they feel that they have to. Its not like I love sticking up to Apple, I just find it wierd people talk crap about something they even barely seen before. Its like arguing about a point of a book, where one discussionparty has only seen the books cover in a TVshow.
I have to agree with Thomek here. Apple does make quite durable products. Arguably thou, Apple users never really rape their hardware as hard as PCusers, so its all rather questionable.
IMO, Apple embodies everything bad about computing industry with their "all flash, no substance" products. They are making fuckton of cash out of stupidity of their customers, who buy their hardware for price that is far higher than the product is actually worth, just because it looks pretty.
The money is for ease of use.
I've got to say I hate the dumbed down interfaces that don't let me do anything,
osx has terminal
Their keyboards are awesome. Ofc some still prefer the nuclear proof PS2 keyboards...
what you talking about, osx has terminal where you can do all kinds of linux/unix shit.. I just used ffmpeg installed through macports to convert a video by command line.
ofc its going to be a little period before you understand osx is way way superior.. :D It's just a linux that works.. And most of it are open source as well. It's not hard to compile linux software for it either.. It's like a pc, without all the utter crap released for the platform.
I tried Linux first time in 95-96, even played Abuse on it.. Then I've been trying it on and off in the time between. Every single time it has been some kind of nightmarish little problem. Usually with broken drivers. Installed backtrack a year ago on an older comp, and same shit. Got it to work eventually, but was a pain. I mean.. that's just my experience, and I'm by no means an expert.
"Performance, is top notch. Sure you can probably shave off 15% of the price to find a PC laptop with equally good specs"
Sure Apple is evil, but I think less Evil than the pc hardware and general electronics producers who push and have pushed plastic crap, designed to break at consumers for decades. Apple is actually creating a market for quality shit. Samsung phones before iphone were not made to anywhere near the quality they are now.
So even non-apple users can thank apple that they have an easy to use OS and quality phones or laptop these days.
Have you ever had a phone that lasts six years?
There are many versions of Linux, and they have actually been improving much faster than OSX or Windows. The most popular one for the average Joe is probably Ubuntu, which is really just a gratis Windows, if you use it at the level of the average Joe.
Unless you really don't want to look for a good deal (i.e. not paying for leds and a logo), it's more like one third of the price cheaper. And that's just laptops, which do have an inflated price even for pcs because well, you got to buy prebuilt. If you look for a good deal in desktops, the Apple equivalent (when it even exists) is sometimes more than twice the price.
And more importantly that's not counting the money that you'll spend after buying your Apple computer.
Now, I think you got a point here. Apple is by no way producing shit products or not being innovative (during the last 40 years anyway). However, they also play with illusions and marketing.
I tried Linux first time in 95-96, even played Abuse on it.. Then I've been trying it on and off in the time between. Every single time it has been some kind of nightmarish little problem. Usually with broken drivers. Installed backtrack a year ago on an older comp, and same shit. Got it to work eventually, but was a pain. I mean.. that's just my experience, and I'm by no means an expert.
Sorry, linux cannot compare with OSX for the average Joe. (I wish it could)
Imagine what pains you would have if you tried to install Mac OS on this "older comp". It's funny how people always expect everything to work out of the box when "trying" Linux, but when they have to buy thousand dollar hardware to run another OS, it's fine. Same with Windows, to bring it to a state in which it's actually useful, you have to install all kinds of drivers and addon software, but somehow, that's okay. Oh, and the best is people comparing their pirated software like Photoshop and 3d Studio Max, which cost hundreds of dollars, to open source counterparts like Gimp and Blender.
One cannot deny the quality of their products or the easy to use OS. One simply can't. My entire problem with Apple is about the devilishly inflated prices. I don't know how prices compare in other countries, but here Apple products cost at least three times the price of their counterparts. Most of the time, their hardware isn't even comparable to their counterparts. For instance, if an above-the-average Android phone with quite impressive hardware costs, say, 10 bucks (using totally made up representative numbers only, of course you don't get shit for 10 bucks, I don't need to be told); the Iphone 5 costs 30 to 35 with hardware barely matching such an Android phone.
When this is the case, people tend to hate the Apple nerds who can die for an Apple product and are totally oblivious to the huge pricing gap. And as this sentence suggests, the hate ends up being directed towards Apple fanboys.
depends on what you regard as a useful state :P Windows is perfectly fine for the avg person like me. Same as IE, it gets tons of shit but ive never had a problem with it because it does really just what i want it to which is browse websites. had to ditch it and get chrome as crpg website stopped working on IE O.o People who are into computers or programming etc will always moan about stuff like windows but you have to remember its just not made for you, Its made for people to use office and do random crap ^^