We Gave People an iPad 2, Told Them It Was the New iPad, and They Loved It

[sethnintendo]

averyblund said:

sethnintendo said:

I used the term to describe every douche bag that every (ever?) bought an Apple product beginning with the first ipod.  

Buy Apple product for use and functionality = fine.  Buy Apple product to look cool = not cool.

I can't reconcile these two statements.

 

I'm gonna go ahead and suggest that I meet only a few people I could say honestly buy Apple stuff to look cool. They're out there, but I think the number is vastly blown out of preportion to fit a rigid "us vs them" viewpoint. But hey hard to prove either way I suppose.

Yea, my rant has a few generalizations in it.  A lot of Apple users buy their products for their use and functionality.  I will not deny that they make well tailored consumer products that people want.  The buying Apple products due to "cool factor" is probably overstated but it does happen.   I just remember a few instances this previous holiday where someone put quotes up of angry teenagers pretty much wishing their parents dead because they didn't get an iphone for the holidays.  They stated iphone (not just any smartphone).  These are the people I hate.  The ones willing to throw their parents under a bus just because they didn't get them a specific brand of cell phone or product.   I probably need to go back and touch up my rant but I believe most of the stuff is true (especially Apple sucking at computer gaming during the late 80s and through out the 90s).