Is my hatred of Apple Irrational?

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I think hatred of Apple users would be irrational. I am not an Apple product user nor owner. I think their products are overpriced. I also think that many get the brand because they are hipsters. I don't like the phenomenon of hipsters. I think that too much energy would be expended on hating any of these things. That's my own opinion. However, is it still a truism that Apple isn't a target of vindictive hacking as much as Microsoft based products?

It's all a matter of how much computing hardware is required & how close a given user needs be to the code that comprises their required applications or 'workflows'. The most serious number crunching largely takes place outside any particular operating system; one might use UNIX, PC, Mac or Linux to access the same computing cluster(s). My screensaver is part of SETI@home - the world's largest decentralized supercomputer. My part of that just runs on a cheap Windows machine, though I usually study code or play around using Linux. Most of my 3D graphics & CAD work happens on Windows but that also doesn't mean all the files & data have to live there forever.

No.

isn't UNIX the most powerful and bug-proof?

I wouldn't consider Apple products "hipster", since it's a very well-known brand at this point. Maybe "rich" is a better term, since these products are not cheap, and a lot of the people who buy the latest and greatest in Apple products can afford to buy a new phone every year. Because let's be real, the only reason why most of us have iPhones is because they started handing them out for free in 2012 and got us hooked on them.

Myself and every developer at my job all hate Apple.

It’s a showy device for showy people, it’s functionality is no better than its rivals that are half the cost.

I bought one to see what all the fuss was about, and was extremely disappointed. It was of tinny quality and the operating system is full of bugs, plus the usability is poor.

Manufacturing engineering if I remember correctly, and yeah differential equations probably aren't a big part of the discipline, but you'd think he'd have taken at least one class in a STEM field that describes them, at least enough to know what I was talking about, as opposed to responding like I was talking a foreign language. I can understand that with a layman, but someone that's a year from graduating college at a major university is completely unacceptable.

The Retina display on the iPhone and Mac is good but their claim to have "invented" the Retina display is laughable. Retina is marketing term, not a new technology. It's like the time Sega claimed to have invented Blast P]processing.


Retina started with the iPhone 4. They jumped from 480 * 360 to 960 * 640. I believe at the time that was the highest resolution ever seen in a phone. Phone resolutions had been creeping up gradually prior to the iPhone 4 and they continued to gradually increase after the iPhone 4.

Rather than a new technology the iPhone 4 Retina display was merely a stepping stone, one of many. Sort of like how the Chrysler Building was briefly the tallest building in the world before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building.

I remember the launch of the iPhone 6. Tim Cook described the 1920 * 1080 resolution (available only on the Plus version) as an extraordinary resolution even though by that point 1920 * 1080 had already been in use on Android for a number of and 2560 * 1440 was becoming the standard for Android smartphones.

It doesn't matter to Apple if they have lower specs than the competition. They can just say they have high specs without making any actual comparisons (this is the reason Apple keynotes never make comparisons with other brands, other brands would thrash them).

Now the iPhone finally has OLED (nearly a decade after Samsung phones got them). The iPhone X and XS have OLED and and the iPhone XR has LCD. But Apple don't call them that, being Apple they have to come up with ridiculous names for them.

Apple calls the OLED used on their iPhone X and XS "Super Retina" and they call the LCD used on their iPhone XR "Liquid Retina". Those names are meaningless! It's Blast processing all over again! Does Apple really think the sort of people who buy iPhones won't know that the liquid in "Liquid Retina" refers to LCD?

Hey, try getting a Blackberry, that'll cure it, Blackberry sucks.

Yep, and they're not wrong to be honest. For every person like you and I that research a product before we buy it there are 100 more that do not. I've noticed your sentiment here a few times over the years from other autistics: it seems a lot of us purchase a product because there's some feature we like, it's superior tech, etc, but a lot of NT's don't buy a product because of those issues, they buy it because their friends have it thus they need it to fit in.

Hey yeah. I've noticed a lot of times cliques will all use the same brand. There's my girlfriend's friends who all have iPhones, there's the boys I knew in high school who all had Xbox's, the guys at Kung Fu all use AMD, etc.

BlackBerrys are awesome! I'm typing this on a BlackBerry Key2 right now!

The price of my BlackBerry 10 is definitely awesome but when it comes to apps I find it disappointing. You have to pay for Google Maps and can't use it offline.

I have fond memories of BlackBerry 10 but I wouldn't recommend using it nowadays. Fortunately the modern BlackBerrys all use Android.

Blackberry aside, I wouldn't buy an apple. I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad with upgrades and for £125 ($158) which is roughly half the price of a broken Mac from the same era.

Maybe you are just jealous.

Seriously, my top preference for modern operating systems is (most liked to least liked) UNIX, Linux, MACOS, and Windows in that order. I have all four in my office.

I just added a second MAC today. The other one is a file server sitting across the room and it doesn't get used much any more. The new one is there mainly for three purposes: e-mail, web browsing, and CAD. Also, I'm thinking of subscribing to Britbox, https://www.britbox.com/us/, and expect that it will run better on the MAC than on my OpenBSD computer I usually use.

I love my OpenBSD computer, but it is far better as a server than as a general purpose workstation.