I own a number of Apple products, I have given Apple products as gifts, and I most likely will purchase an Apple MacBook Pro to replace my current laptop computer. What really gets me, though, is the idea that PC problems can somehow be solved by switching platforms. It’s as if a customer, upon purchasing a new game, experiences an error preventing the software from launching. When soliciting help for this obstacle, however, he is told that “that game sucks anyway.”
I look upon this logic with furrowed brow: a request for assistance is not a green light to pimp your operating system of choice. Rather, it is an opportunity to impart knowledge to another who may be treading a path you have already conquered. If you can think of nothing helpful to say, privately bask in the knowledge that your Mac does not do that and continue on your merry way, creating space for those who genuinely want to help.
This flawed reasoning is also routinely applied in a unique medium known as the “Slashdot comment”, but that is a subcultural aberration that is better discussed at another time.