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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
I don't. But I enjoy talking about the differences and new features etc of each has device. That seems lost on some posters who take criticism of their new iDevice personally.
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That's exactly it. OS preference itself, and the features they have, are personal preference but a lot of times Apple fans take things personally or they even start mocking other people's choices without even being bothered to take a look at non-Apple products and will insist that Apple has absolutely nothing to learn from other companies.
Apple's marketing department, all the way from the top down (Tim Cook and Steve Jobs), is really at fault in this by actively trying to create and perpetuate a large, ignorant and aggressive fan base. "Look at your giant phablet brick phones and how they don't fit perfectly in your hand like the perfect iPhone. Apple is much better at making bold risk-taking innovative moves"... releases phablet, "iMaps will be superior to Google maps"... it navigates people into an Australian outback desert death trap: it's user error even though official workaround is Google maps, "Google web security is lacking and personal data is not being protected"... iCloud just got hacked and only recently implemented two factor authentication. These are just recent examples.
It's the type of arrogance and ignorance that gets thrown around a lot. OS preference, fine. One OS works better than the other at some things, sure... but don't take things personally when ignorant statements get thrown around and non-fans respond to correct it.