“Cool” is what OTHER people label something that they like. As a user, I couldn’t possibly care less what other people think about my car, my computer, my tablet, my phone, my home or my lawn mower.
I bought them for ME, not for your approval.
If you don’t like Apple, please do not buy anything made by Apple. If you don’t like Virgin Airlines, please fly someone else. I, and my fellow passengers won’t miss you a bit. Like everything else - you tend to get what you pay for.
Agree with you totally.
And that is the best way to do it.
I don’t like current Apple products. I use PC at work, and love to tinker with things (curse of being an engineer). I can build my system much more powerful than an off the shelf Mac.
My parents should get a Mac. It will do everything they want, and it is “locked in” so you can’t do much you don’t want. The only issue is they love Windows and don’t want to use a different OS