Maybe they're the ones who are jealous of your totally awesome spelling and grammar.

/snark

This has to be a VGC record. We made it over ten posts into an Apple thread before some jackhole walked with a molotov cocktail and a can of gasoline. High fives, everybody!

Build quality , in general for all their products, is very nice. I think their computers (Macbook Pro and Mac) are well suited hardware wise but are overpriced. iPod and iPhone are great consumer devices if you require their use.

I don't see anything special in any tablet (Android or iPad) that is until I saw the latest iPad. Personally, I find no use in them so I won't buy one anytime soon, but if I did it would be the new iPad.

And no, I don't own any Apple product.

Softwares sell hardwares. Apple have built up their platform to be liked by the masses.
People aren't going to mind paying more for something they can and like to use.

Finally, their marketing is up there, selling themselves as a must have, etc.

Nothing.

But iSheep eat that shit up like candy.

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I don't understand it and i never will. It's not that it's bad, in fact the products are usually a little better than similar products, but the difference is always too small and particular (usually style difference not substance) that it never justifies the price. The macbooks are a complete ripoff, i can't even possibly think of how to justify the price difference. I can easily afford it, but i bought my computer is for 1/4 of what it would cost for a similar mac product. I got an ipod for christmas some years ago, it got in water a couple years later and i bought a generic mp3 player for 1/10 the price and haven't looked back.

People have to really care about brand or style or be extremely particular to actually buy these things. In a way apple kinda reminds me of Nintendo, only without the games.

apple = sex

nothing. the reason they can do this is because people are sheep. alot of apple customers have no idea about specs or any of the technical stuff they have it just because there freinds do.

Sheep do exist in the opposite direction too. A lot of people hate on Apple because it's kind of "geek cool" to do so. People who hate Apple without valid reasons are as bad as those who slavishly follow them.

Well, in the past two months I've grown to like Apple. The ipad is great for books, and comics, and the ipod filled the place of my beloved Zune.

But... Apple just made me download a 750MB update just so I could delete a couple songs off my ipod. Never remember having to do that with my Zune*

**I have a very low monthly bandwidth cap

Nothing, they just command very strong brand loyalty. A recent event has convinced me of this.

We're currently decommissioning some equipment where I work. We have old PCs and Macs that are to be scrapped this Thursday. Understandably, people are interested in the equipment that is being scrapped.

I've put two computers to one side that have some of my work on them. An old PC with a ~2 Ghz processor and ~512 MB RAM and an old Mac of worse spec. Not one person has asked about the PC, I don't think anyone would care if I chucked it in the skip. The Mac, that's a different story. I've had three or four people ask me what I'm planning to do with the 2002 Mac after I'm finished with it, even though its age renders it practically useless.

If someone said to me, "would you like a computer that has a 1.25 GHz processor and 512 MB RAM for free?" I would probably decline it because it would become clutter. But the fact that it's a Mac seems to make this a different situation for a lot of people and their reasons seem to be nothing more than brand loyalty. I don't get it.

That's why your friend's old Mac sold for so much. I suppose there's nothing wrong with brand loyalty, but it's something I fail to understand.