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Funny, Apple mainstreamed tech tribalism. Remember when they were so so butthurt when android entered the scene, that their whole cult started calling them poor people’s phone? Their whole schtick was being an expensive status symbol? Suing samsung because their phone was a rectangle? Suing a pear brand logo because theirs was an apple. They had to go so low to green bubble android users to.make them seem like outcasts in group chats for teenagers? Tim Apple’s “Buy your mom an iPhone” because they didn’t want to support RCS?

You can “achsually” spin it however the fuck you want, Apple is THE tech tribalist cult, that other companies fawn over. Not the smart ones, the dumb and loyal ones who buy expensive shit no matter what.

Fuck all Big Tech. They’re only after monopolizing the market for data and profits.

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prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Your comment so perfectly encapsulates what I’m talking about.

I use Apple products because I develop on a Unix system that has support from the manufacturer. That’s why I use Apple.

Nobody else provides that for me.

It’s like you are wildly incorrect but having to join the tech fight

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- PostsFromWikipedia@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You can use an Apple product without being in the cult, but the cult still exists.
  
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  - prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sure. But the cult of anti Apple is on display here in this thread and is wildly MORE pervasive.
    
    Then again it’s largely only kids who give a fuck
    
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- kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Glad to see someone else mention this. I feel crazy enjoying the hell out of using what is basically “linux + commercial software” while everyone else is just like “Apple bad, too expensive.” Meanwhile my apple laptop and phone were both cheaper than the competition… never let that get in the way of a good narrative, I guess.
  
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  - prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That’s exactly what it is.
    
    Planned obsolescence, but my iPhone 11 from 2019 still receives updates. Do any android devices from then still get new Android?
    
    None of my cords that did the fraying ever frayed, I had one friend who’s cord frayed. But it was all over the internet.
    
    It’s called othering when we make shit up about people to categorize them as worse, but since tech isn’t people our baser instincts are fine.
    
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GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Apple mainstreamed tech tribalism

I assure you, from car brands to shoe brands to soda brands, brand tribalism by consumers has always been with us. On the tech side, we saw it with console wars of every generation, PC/accessory brand tribalism, even OS/software tribalism. TVs, radios, portable music players, AV equipment of all types, etc. When cell phones came on the scene, you had significant brand rivalries there, even before smartphones. (You see remnants in this when people get nostalgic about Nokias or Blackberries or Razrs).

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