I've been an Apple product user since the first ones came out. I had a friend way back then that actually introduced me to my first Mac. But alas he himself fell back to PCs (Which used to mean "personal computer" but arrogantly co-opted by users of IBM/Microsoft as a term only for them).
The reason is he is a computer geek, oldschool. And he actually ENJOYS working for hours taking apart computers, building them himself, programing and writing small apps. Apple makes it all too easy, everything is already done for you. Plus way too many bells and whistles as he puts it.
Back when the first Macs came out using icons on screen and a mouse to navigate, the IBM computers were still using DOS. To use a PC you had to be one of those kids in class with the thick eyeglasses, short pants, and huddling in small groups of similar guys in the cafeteria. They were smarter than everyone, and were unfairly picked on. But once out of school, it was revenge of the nerds. There was one thing that made them kings....they could operate those fancy ass computer boxes. Computers were regarded as their exclusive domain. To most everyone else writing DOS... you might as well be writing Arabic.
Then along came Steve fucking Jobs and his everyman/woman personal home computer mission. Suddenly everyone from dotting housewives to those assholes that used to break their glasses now could produce documents and graphics in the same quality and time frame as they could WITHOUT having to have paid their dues in multiple hours shut in their basements absorbing thick computer language books and suffering the abuse by dumb ass jocks everyday.
To my friend and many like him...they don't WANT a machine that just works well, is easy to use, has overly abundant built in customizing options, takes care of itself, resists viruses and malware, and lasts for years without a problem. They want something that they can perpetually tinker with. Use open source operating systems like Linux and adapt it to work on their self-built machines.
I'm the opposite. I'm the same with cars. I'd rather it just work, not worry about it or fuss with it, life has too many other distractions to be fiddling with my computer also.. and if its also pleasing to use and has a choice of bells and whistles to make it more enjoyable thats a bonus I take advantage of as well. Hey, I still love my friend, but we have learned over the years to avoid ever start debating Mac vs PC arguments. I have come to accept that he just looks at the act of "computing" differently than I do. And thats ok.
But I have noticed a growing resentment by these PC fiddlers. They seem almost humiliated watching Windows seemingly capitulating to Apple by always trying to catch up and do what Apple does a couple of years later and also strive for "user friendly" machines that anyone can pick up and use right out of the box. And by extension, are more difficult to take apart and customize themselves. The era of revenge is over.
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