Here my take if you care to listen....
Apple is a company who is totally guilty of doing all the nefarious consumer ripoffs that Microsoft is constantly and falsely accused of doing.
The Apple culture is one that locks the user into a contract....unwritten........that forces said user to get most if not all of the services that Apple offers in a perpetual way.
The said users are not only comfortable with this arrangement, they defend it like junkies.
The whole thing is very worrisome to me. I have witnessed all sort of business models in all kinds of products, and only twice have I see this sort of emotion conveyed by users of a service or product in defense of the company.
The only other one was AMWAY.
Do what you feel like doing, cuz it's a free country and you can spend you money anyway you please. But don't try to get me hooked on your passions, because I very much don't like proprietary product/service schemes, and avoid them like the plaque and book clubs.
Off subject but if you think MAC OS computer users are junkies, you should see some tool users when it comes to snap-on or Mac tools.
The Apple culture is one that locks the user into a contract....unwritten........that forces said user to get most if not all of the services that Apple offers in a perpetual way.
The said users are not only comfortable with this arrangement, they defend it like junkies.
The whole thing is very worrisome to me. I have witnessed all sort of business models in all kinds of products, and only twice have I see this sort of emotion conveyed by users of a service or product in defense of the company.
Actually, this isn't something "new" in the computer industry. If anything "The Apple Model" is a step back in history. It's the sort of model used by just about every computer manufacturer... In the midrange and mainframe world. And guess what? It worked. You rarely if ever heard anyone complain about the fact that when you had a problem with your IBM System 34, you called IBM. And it didn't matter if it was a hardware or an OS problem. Because there were no incompatibilities. Because you had a single vendor.
This whole PC vs MAC thing is pretty annoying. You've got MAC users who used to use PCs that were never interested in being a "computer user" because they simply wanted to do their jobs or what they liked, using the computer as a tool. And when they couldn't do that on a PC, but could on a MAC for what ever reasons, they become evangelists.
On the other hand, you've got people who love playing with and hacking PCs who feel that it's important to their self esteem to decry those other people, simply because they didn't want to scour the Internet to find that one driver that would eventually fix the problem they're having. And when they do solve the problem, they announce to the world how wonderful they are.
Geez, I'm SO SICK OF IT!!!
Mark
There’s nothing proprietary about the Mac ecosystem, but you’re free to think what you want.