Ever since the olden days when dinosaurs walked the Earth, Apple products have been interesting, high-quality, proprietary.... and expensive. Elitist even. Now with them being the leading consumer-space hardware/software tech company or what have you (mostly due to phones and laptops and MP3 players and music collection software and video players and editors, it appears) and bigger than even Microsoft, they are the new top dog, the new evil corporation and..... so what?
With the convergence of low-cost streamlined homogeneous hardware and open-source software all driving a certain sameness between computers (including the ones that make phone calls or play music) and their operating systems, there are limited choices. But they're all reliable and in many cases interchangeable. CPUs and laptops (along with their logos) are used in product placement in television shows, many of which have turned into nothing but elaborate advertisements in and of themselves.
As a person who's never owned anything made by Apple, mostly due to the cost and the nightmare stories about getting things upgraded or repaired. (They sure do look neat and cool and pretty though.) Yes, that's right. Nope. No iPod, iPad, iPhone, iMac, iBook, or iYiYi.
MACOSX, snow tiger leopard mountain lion lynx tabby. O in other words basically Linux that runs on a pseudo-semi propriatary adjusted generic PC hardware with tight cases and a mouse with a single big glowing button. As a pretend Sean Connery might say on an ersatz SNL Jeopardy, just like your mother, Alex. Get yourself a two-year old laptop and throw Red Hat (or whatever) on it, and what's the difference, it's all Gnu to you. Myth-TV and what have you.
Phone contracts suck for that matter. Yet why pay $200 and agree to a two-year lock in on an outrageously priced data plan when you can just get a $120 Windows Phone (or an older iPhone, or any number of devices running Google Android) with no contract and rely upon wi-fi for whenever you need data and you're not near a computer (which these days is when?)
Apples are yummy, but can give an ache to your tummy.
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