• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Apple fanboys don’t care one bit. As long as they can look cool and feel like part of the cool kids, they’ll buy.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Honestly, people just know that blue = better quality, reaction emojis, and editing. They don’t know why that’s actually the case. Most laypeople don’t know a lick about things like RCS, E2EE, etc.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not that they’re apple superfans that makes then like that or course, they’re apple obsessed because they’re fully brought into conspicuous consumerism - they love that apple is over priced and feature limited because it’s a way of demonstrating their excess wealth.

      Airlines are big on this with their ‘show the world you’re special by spending more than most people do on their whole holiday just to get a slightly bigger seat and complementary drinks that you could have brought for twenty dollars.’ the same with cars that inexplicably cost the same as a house and why people need to have this year’s overpriced car.

      Apple not being laughed out of existence is a symptom of our broken society, and yes I know people are going to tell me that they have some obscene reason for using apple but that’s just the very human trait of posthoc justification and rationalization of a choice made emotionally.

      • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I’m certain you developed this astute perspective after a thorough and unbiased evaluation of the Apple ecosystem from a user perspective