“Sorry if I offend anyone, but if Apple didn’t have a cult following they would be hurting.”
Nonsense. There is no comparable tech company. Apple is the last company standing with a workstation oriented Unix for one thing...hence the huge uptake of Macs among developers. Plus, its approach of making technology as easily accessed as possible has inexplicably not been duplicated by any other company.
Here’s some fuel for the fire from the inventor of the x86 PC:
http://www.cio.com/article/3133945/hardware/ibm-says-macs-save-up-to-543-per-user.html
Apple’s market cap is still over $100 billion ahead of Google and Microsoft...
There is no such thing as "a cult of Apple" that keeps the world's most valuable company, largest market cap, and most valuable brand in the world, "from hurting," as you claim. Apple has over 1.1 BILLION iOS devices in use throughout the world, sells 250 million plus such iOS devices annually, and an additional 100 million Macs operating around the world. The purchasers and users of those 1.2 BILLION Apple products cannot be, by any stretch of your hyperbole, be called a "cult" merely because you don't use Apple products and you think it sounds cute to smear Apple users with that epithet because they didn't opt to use the hardware YOU chose!
Making such a ridiculous claim says more about you than than Apple users, who generally know BOTH Windows and Mac computers.