I don’t find it laughable; it appalls me that humanity is so foolishly economically stratified. And if you buy Apple products and you aren’t in the top 10% of global wealth, I would encourage you to rethink your economic plans.
My discontinued, yet thoroughly supported, android tablet suits me fine; it does everything I want, and none of the things that I do not want. This is my second one of the same model; the first one died when a rope snapped and hundreds of gallons of water landed on it. But when I received the previous one as a gift in 2013, the roughly comparable Apple product cost roughly twice as much ($200 .vs. slightly over $400). When I bought this one from eBay, I paid almost the same amount, because they’ve held value well… what’s a 2013 ipad mini go for now? Can you get updates for that?
- yes, straight from Google; I’m not running anything customised, it’s just a cheap Nexus 7.
- no, I don’t think so! That mac has been unsupported for a long time.
I think it’s a totally legit viewpoint, myself. I respect that a lot more than unverifiable claims of security ultimacy. “Just Works” is personal, dependent on your use patterns and not a globally applicable metric, but it’s still real!
Another valid reason people choose Apple (or Microsoft) is to align the toolsets in their working and home lives. If you work at Goddard, for example, you’ll want an Apple laptop because fedguv regulatory insanity ensures that any Windows laptop you get will be relatively crippled. So most people would want the same system at home, I imagine, just for the ease of use that consistency would provide.
