Nope! You’re assuming too much.
Never said I didn’t like the products, and never said I didn’t think they were good quality products, and never said that people shouldn’t like them and purchase them.
What I am saying is that, with Apple, it’s like a religion, and the fanaticism is beyond just liking a product. When people purchase a product which they don’t really need, or that isn’t really that much of an improvement over a previous version of the same product, then, it’s beyond needing and wanting a product. When what people already have is enough to get them through the next few years with not too many problems, and they decide that they ‘need’ to get the latest that Apple puts out, then, it’s about a religion. When people get on eBay and on Amazon to sell their perfectly good iPhone, just so they can raise enough cash to get the next iPhone that comes with a tiny increment of an improvement, then, it’s about a religion.
If it’s not about a religion, it’s about an obsession or a compulsion.
I think that Apple produces are good quality products, and those products are things that actually meet a need, just like all the other smartphone brands meed the same need. But, I just can’t understand the need to upgrade as soon as a marginally improved version comes out. It’s about the need that certain people feel that tells thme that, they won’t be left behind and they must get the latest-and-greatest, when they don’t really need to or have to. But, Apple counts on that type of mentality to keep them flying above the clouds, and their loyal “followers” are immediately available to hand Apple their money.
It’s pure nuttiness.
BTW, in my family, there are 3 iPhones, but, none of those owners felt the need to get the iPhone 6 or 6+ when it came out, and in fact, they feel quite content in staying with their iPhone 4 and iPhone 5,for as long as Apple supports them. No Apple religion in my family, but, we go with what does the job, and so, we have Apple devices, and LG-Android devices, and Samsung devices, and Windows Phone devices. None of us own any Macs, because, our needs were met quite well with the much lesser cost devices from Windows PCs from various OEMs.
We don’t worship any brand or model, and we don’t worship any company. We are practical and frugal, while making sure that we get quality products without having to pay through the nose. Again, not religion in our household and immediate family.
You’re hilarious in that you set yourself up to be the one who sets a “standard” for what consist of a “religion” (as you put it, which definition serves to actually denigrate true religion, actually) ... in that if people don’t act in the manner you say should be done, in how often they should buy a product, using your definition of “need” ... then ... it is a “religion”! ... LOL ...
You sound like your relatives emigrated from the former Soviet Union and had some family members with the last name of “Stalin” ... :-) ...
In America ... you see ... we all have the ABSOLUTE FREEDOM to buy whatever we want, in our capitalistic and free market system ... as many times as we want, as much as we want, and to do with or without any consideration of need, or to consider it in any way we see fit, according to OUR OWN DETERMINATION of what that should be and COMPLETELY IGNORE any one else’s opinion of what that should be.
We have the freedom to ABSOLUTELY BURN OUR OWN MONEY if we should so “feel the need to do so”!
AND THEN in our capitalistic free market system, companies that CATER TO the mass market and to whatever mood they are in, even if that mass market wants to “burn their own money” for no reason at all ... if that company pleases that mass market to the extent that the company becomes FILTHY RICH ... that company is a PERFECT SUCCESS in doing so and in becoming WILDLY SUCCESSFUL for catering to those customers. That’s exactly what a company is supposed to do ... which is to become FILTHY RICH by catering to the whims and wishes and desires of the mass market.
That company is called a ROARING SUCCESS ... and not a company that follows your very narrow-minded and “Stalinesque” philosophy!
The only people I see on here are people like you who have a compulsion to post negative commentary like this one about Apple users. . . claiming cult like religion or psychological pathology. Most of us do not upgrade at "every upgrade" as you erroneously think. I skip every other upgrade of iPhone, waiting out the contract, and every iPhone user I know does the same thing. YOU are assuming facts simply not in evidence. We sell our old iPhones because they have high resale value not present for other phones even three and four years later that most often will pay the price of upgrading on contract. Try doing that with a two, three, or four year old Android phone. You can't. You call that pathological.
My main Mac is now seven years old and my MacBook Air is four years old. Where is this exchange for every new model there? The fact is, Mr. Psychologist, what you claim is happening, does not happen. It is in your deluded mind because there are that many pleased Apple product users at each product upgrade whose contracts are due for renewal. . . and choose to upgrade. There is always sufficient reason to upgrade. You claim your iPhone 4 and 5 are sufficient. I upgraded from my previous iPhone 5 because I intend to use ApplePay. . . and I do, frequently. I sold my two year old 16 GB iPhone 5—not an iPhone 5S, a generation I skipped—for enough to pay for the upgrade to a 64GB iPhone 6 and put $150 in my pocket. Again, try that with any Android phone of ANY vintage. Your premise fails for bad assumptions.
The facts are that Android phone users upgrade their phones more frequently than do Apple iPhone users. . . because they are cheaper and in many instances, simply don't outlast their contracts.
Your assumption that ANYONE is worshipping any company gets to your delusions. . . and ignorance of what Apple products are really like to use.