You sound like a “follower”, like the people in that TV show, “The Following”?
Yuck, man, you need to get a life.
There is nothing special about Apple products, and whatever you or anyone needs, can be found in other brands, and just as good quality. You’ve been brainwashed by that Apple religion.
Obviously, there is something to it, considering there are 700 FReepers who are part of the Apple ping list, on Free Republic ... :-) ...
And there are a whole lot of people buying iPhones in the USA. Apple is the Number One manufacturer of smartphones in this country by a significant margin. That doesn’t happen unless a company is doing what it’s supposed to for its customers.
SO ... all you’re saying is that you don’t like the products ... but ... the fact that you don’t like the products doesn’t mean that there isn’t a huge number of people who do like the products very much ... including FReepers and other conservatives.
There speaks a mono-lingual ignorati trying to tell those of us bi-lingual people that what we know about the second language being better than his pig-latin is wrong when we've spoken both fluently. Tsk-tsk. It has nothing to do with anything like a religion, except perhaps from your end.
What you fail to understand Adorno is that while some makers of PC and Android hard ware may equal Apple's build quality, they do not have OS X or iOS on their equipment nor will they claim responsibility for the entire product in servicing it. Those things make all the difference and DOES make it special. The vast majority of Apple users CAME out of your world and have made the conscious decision to make the move away from the bad experience to the better experience. You just go on believing your Flavor-aide. We are NOT going to drink it again. . . it left a foul taste in our mouths the last time.