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No point with arguing with these people.

I have noticed that people love their operating systems, especially in the Mac camp, even if switching to a different operating system would make almost no actual day-to-day difference in experience to them because they would be using the same applications/visiting the same websites anyway. And they like to make false claims about the other operating systems that they don't use.



There is a section of Apple users/fanbase that, if one day Cook instructs someone at Apple to run a remote command and wipe every single piece of data on their devices and nuke backups in iCloud as well, they will find a way to feel grateful about that and advocate and defend Apple in hordes even before Apple had the time to speak about it.

From the top of my mind it seems they would start with "I was struggling to get into the zen mode, disconnect, and seeing Apple failed to do with with ScreenTime their latest effort helped me perfectly. It just works!".


You can still find those people right in the Apple community forums. When I switched to Mac many years ago I was so surprised at the attitude longtime users there had with technical questions, just turning them over to the user asking why would they even need that change. Anything that deviated from the standard "expected" experience, even if it was an evident bug, was just treated with hubris by them. Many of those answers are still voted as best answer.


Yes. Whenever someone says 4chan is a bad forum etc, and 4chan is bad in many ways imho, then I remember https://discussions.apple.com - the Mariana Trench of intellectual decadence. So much that it seems a necessary requirement to be a member and user there is to dislodge your brain and store safely in the fridge before going there.

I mean that forum is hard to believe to be real - in short and politer terms.




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