Maddox had a great article about Apple users: (warning strong language) "One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't:"
Wow, that was actually hilarious!
A related story: I took my nephew to a “computer swap meet” in Kent, WA back in the early 90’s. It’s people selling old monitors, hard drives, software, cases, you name it. When we got to the door and looked around I said this to him:
“Donny, soak this in. You are in a moment in history that is very fleeting. PC’s are in their infancy and they will soon be a commodity - like a toaster. But right now people are enamored as if they have gotten a glimpse of the future and they want it.”
Computers are, in fact, a commodity now. But the Apple brand is fighting it hard, and still relatively successfully. And just as many young people are big into brands for clothing, the same is true for other things they use like, well, computers, phones, the car they drive, etc.
Me, I buy my jeans at Costco for $16 and they last me years. I see everything I own, even my PA equipment and basses and guitars as tools. I couldn’t care less about brand. If they get the job done for the right amount of effort and money on my part, I’m golden.
Why do you think that Apple customers only by Apple because they think it makes them look cool?
My main Computers are two 2009 Mac Pros they run 24/7. I have the new iPad Pro just for the heck of it but I also have the first iPad that still does everything it did when I bought it.
Every year or so I purchase a new Parallels and install Windows and Linux, I occasionally fire them up and stare at them for a while and decide there is nothing I care to do that I am not already doing on my Mac.
There may be thousands of things that I could do with Windows that I can't do on my Mac but apparently I don't have a need for them.
To be truthful there are a couple things I would like to have that do not work with OS X but not enough to abandon Mac OS.
Most Mac users do not want to be cool, they just want a computer that will run reliably for many years, and they do.
That was a very well written screed.