@yhwx I’m a gamer. Macs are not for gamers. Yes, Steam does have a decent Mac game library catalogue now, but it pales in comparison to PC.
This is true.
And Macs are still grossly overpriced.
JEDIT: Also, on my Android phone, this is my home screen.
I failed to convey the point that design isn’t just how it looks in my previous posts. While looks are a significant part of design, many times, it feels like Android and Windows are less well thought out than a Mac or an iPhone. The nice little touches that might not be much individually but add to a great sum are just not there. There just isn’t as much polish and thought into how things work on the other side of things.
Apple is vanilla. It’s easy to use, if you use it the way Apple intends you to use it. But that’s about the most going for it.
I’d argue against your vanilla point, as if you actually used an Apple product, they’re very opinionated in their design of things
In my opinion, beyond that it’s just hype and brand loyalty.
No.
If this were just about hype and brand loyalty, then none of the people who use Apple products would have any complaints about them. But that’s just not the case. Apple users have a discerning eye to the flaws in any product, including Apple’s. You could say that they have too much of a discerning eye. The sum product is what makes Apple users chose Apple products, because the sum is just better than other things out there.
JEDIT:
Trying to make things so that a wide cross-section of people can use a technology without reading a four-hundred page manual is not dumbing things down so that a monkey could use it. In fact, that’s pretty insulting to the people who don’t want to or can’t read that four-hundred page manual.
My point is not that Apple caters to idiots and as such people who like Apple must be so. My point is Apple is very user-friendly-centric to the point of blocking off certain customizations, both in the front end and the back end, that I desire (many of which don’t come to mind, but I could immediately point out with an iPhone in hand)—and in being so it’s simply not for me.
And I’d argue that that’s a better decision, as the operating system should yield to the user, unless it is very likely that the user will do something bad.