I don't believe you are making genuine, thoughtful statements here.
Apple has made real, substantive progress in design. There was nothing like the iPhone when it was brought to market. Nothing even similar.
Their aluminum notebooks use a manufacturing process that has never been used in notebook construction before, and the result is a product that feels more solid even than my Thinkpad.
Their original iPods brought a simplicity of interaction (the touch scroll wheel) that had never been done before.
You may find the prices they charge for their products, or elements of their business conduct, to be distasteful. That's fine, and they are valid points. But to argue that people buy iPods because they are 'brainwashed,' or are 'zombies' blindly following the brand, or that it's a 'cult not a company' is so thoughtless that it makes one believe that you are not prepared to engage in reasoned discourse because flippant comments are easier.
"There was nothing like the iPhone when it was brought to market. Nothing even similar."
That's not true. The iPhone is a rip off of the Linux based deeda Pi that has been developed way before the iPhone. The iPhone actually killed the open source deeda Pi project.
Apple has made real, substantive progress in design. There was nothing like the iPhone when it was brought to market. Nothing even similar.
Their aluminum notebooks use a manufacturing process that has never been used in notebook construction before, and the result is a product that feels more solid even than my Thinkpad.
Their original iPods brought a simplicity of interaction (the touch scroll wheel) that had never been done before.
You may find the prices they charge for their products, or elements of their business conduct, to be distasteful. That's fine, and they are valid points. But to argue that people buy iPods because they are 'brainwashed,' or are 'zombies' blindly following the brand, or that it's a 'cult not a company' is so thoughtless that it makes one believe that you are not prepared to engage in reasoned discourse because flippant comments are easier.