http://theweek.com/articles/474359/5-signs-that-apple-cult
My real problem with Apple is that they DELIBERTLY chose to make obscene profits (and enrich the Chi-coms) by having products made in the China. China allows teenagers(Under 18) to work in a factory environment. I have a big problem with cultists who defend that situation.
Apple owners are for the most part the Prius owners of the tech world:
Sometimes, not even a single post can go by without someone insulting apple users. Is it really necessary to denigrade someone else in order to support your own preferences?
I'm glad that windows works for you. For myself, my time is far too valuable to spend my life guarding against malware. I have work to do, and prefer to use something that provides me with the toolchain built in for me to do my work.
Hypocrite! Every single Windows computer manufacturer has their hardware manufactured in the same Chinese factories as Apple. . . Apple is merely one of the over 500 customers who contract to have their hardware assembled by Foxconn or Pegatron.
Here is a partial list of the top 52 of FoxConn's customers I've been able to compile from news articles where their contractural relationships were mentioned over the past five years:
I bet some of your hard hardware makers are on that list. . . and I can assure you that if their stuff is made elsewhere than Foxconn, it's far more likely underage workers are making it, because Apple isn't looking over their shoulders!
Apple is the ONLY one of those five hundred that has in its contract that employees working on its product assembly lines must be over 18. . . and has its own company paid monitors at its suppliers checking to assure the contract worker standards and work conditions are being met. Apple has actually PULLED a two BILLION DOLLAR contract from a supplier who failed to meet those requirements and took the business to a higher cost supplier. Other manufacturers merely join China Labor Rights organizations to show they are concerned but Apple actually is doing something. These are facts!
Then you decry an American company for making profits? What are you? A Liberal Democrat? You're obviously no conservative, and certainly not a capitalist. Then you insult Apple users again with your idiotic prejudiced "Prius owners" drivel! BAH!
“My real problem with Apple is that they DELIBERTLY chose to make obscene profits (and enrich the Chi-coms) by having products made in the China. “
It sounds as if you believe the electronic components for PC products are made in hollow trees here in the US?
It sounds as if you have something against maximizing profits?
It sounds as if your preferred world is a commodity world?