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Apple these days is the type of company to make a mistake, think they are never wrong, blame anyone but themselves and then change a little bit, only for it to

Apple these days is the type of company to make a mistake, think they are never wrong, blame anyone but themselves and then change a little bit, only for it to go over like a dead balloon. It reminds me of the Apple Silicon dev kit. No refunds, ok refunds but you have to spend them in a certain time, ok fine you can use them for a longer period and for anything. They are probably completely flabbergasted that people are upset about this so they make this change after a week, completely missing the point.

adventured 5y ago
They've been like that since the early days of the company, it's core to their culture, which was built by Steve Jobs. Apple has always had an elitist snobbery at their center, such that if you don't get a thing then you're wrong. That's what Think Different is all about, that's a hyper arrogant proclamation that could only be spewed out of an elitist never-wrong orifice, it's borderline assholic in nature. Part of the cult of Apple has always been that attitude, the Apple fans eat it up, they love the idea that buying Apple products made them feel different (or it used to, before Apple became mainstream), made them feel separate from the masses. Steve Jobs points that out in the D5 interview in 2007 with Gates, how Apple needs the inferior taste of the masses to prime their superiority off of (which is another way of saying: they're wrong, we're right). Go back to their response over the iPhone 4 reception problems ("you're holding it wrong"), same asshole culture then as now, and that culture has been in place for decades: https://www.engadget.com/2010-06-24-apple-responds-over-iphone-4-reception-issues-youre-holding-th.html https://www.engadget.com/2010-06-24-apple-responds-over-ipho...
- whatever_dude 5y ago
  Eh, I would go even deeper: the original Macintosh keyboard didn't have arrow keys because you shouldn't need it according to z Jobs. People complained and Apple held their feet for a long time until giving up and adding the goddamn arrow keys. That's always been very emblematic of Apple for me. (Hard to find a good citation link on a phone, bit the story's out there.)
- wincy 5y ago
  I mean I don’t consider myself an elitist but as a software engineer who just moved from doing dev work on a Mac to a Windows laptop, I’m so frustrated by how bad the experience is compared to the Mac. I love the new job but even these $2000 Dell laptops feel junky in comparison to a similarly priced MacBook Pro. I’m constantly having problems with my audio devices (which is a necessity during the pandemic) the built in microphone is terrible, the webcam on the laptop is on the BOTTOM of the screen which just makes me look super fat because reasons I guess. It’s like how a fish doesn’t realize it’s in water until it flops up on the shore.

adventured 5y ago

They've been like that since the early days of the company, it's core to their culture, which was built by Steve Jobs. Apple has always had an elitist snobbery at their center, such that if you don't get a thing then you're wrong. That's what Think Different is all about, that's a hyper arrogant proclamation that could only be spewed out of an elitist never-wrong orifice, it's borderline assholic in nature. Part of the cult of Apple has always been that attitude, the Apple fans eat it up, they love the idea that buying Apple products made them feel different (or it used to, before Apple became mainstream), made them feel separate from the masses. Steve Jobs points that out in the D5 interview in 2007 with Gates, how Apple needs the inferior taste of the masses to prime their superiority off of (which is another way of saying: they're wrong, we're right). Go back to their response over the iPhone 4 reception problems ("you're holding it wrong"), same asshole culture then as now, and that culture has been in place for decades: https://www.engadget.com/2010-06-24-apple-responds-over-iphone-4-reception-issues-youre-holding-th.html https://www.engadget.com/2010-06-24-apple-responds-over-ipho...

whatever_dude 5y ago
Eh, I would go even deeper: the original Macintosh keyboard didn't have arrow keys because you shouldn't need it according to z Jobs. People complained and Apple held their feet for a long time until giving up and adding the goddamn arrow keys. That's always been very emblematic of Apple for me. (Hard to find a good citation link on a phone, bit the story's out there.)
wincy 5y ago
I mean I don’t consider myself an elitist but as a software engineer who just moved from doing dev work on a Mac to a Windows laptop, I’m so frustrated by how bad the experience is compared to the Mac. I love the new job but even these $2000 Dell laptops feel junky in comparison to a similarly priced MacBook Pro. I’m constantly having problems with my audio devices (which is a necessity during the pandemic) the built in microphone is terrible, the webcam on the laptop is on the BOTTOM of the screen which just makes me look super fat because reasons I guess. It’s like how a fish doesn’t realize it’s in water until it flops up on the shore.