>Your post illustrates Apple's success. Perceiving a criticism of Apple, you jump in with both feet. Clearly Apple isn't just something you bought. You start with a pointedly personal comment, so it seems that you took the comments about Apple personally.

Nice try, Freud, you only forgot that this is a public forum, and jumping "with both feet" into discussions is what we _do_ here. I participate into most of the discussions, and I like to leave "pointedly personal comments" all the time.

>You enumerate virtues of Apple products, in defense of your purchases. You clearly see no reasonable alternatives to them; indeed, you were forced by the total inferiority of other products. Consider what this implies about the people who buy other brands: they lack discernment, or they are poor.

Or they just don't have the same needs as mine, Sherlock. Haven't thought of that, eh?

I studied CS in mid-nineties, so I run Linux at the time, and I wanted a usable UNIX for Python/Java work that could also run MS Office and audio/MIDI sequencing programs (my hobby). So, I need to run: UNIX + Adobe CS + (Reason||Logic||Cubase). If you can take a minute from your psychology for dummies manual to find me a better OS X alternative for those, I would be grateful...

>You clarify that you are not buying blindly. I didn't say anything about this, so it is clearly important to you.

Oh, I see what you did here. Are you still in high school, and just discovered this "pop psychology" thing? You wrote a whole comment implying people are idiots and/or caught on the marketing hype for buying Apple, even calling it "brand tribalism", and now suddenly you "didn't say anything about this". Well, you did.

>I understand: your purchase was based on the great virtues of the product which set it apart from the competition. And your purchases set you apart from the people who buy other things.

Seems like you're trying hard to feel superior to other people because you're ...not feeling superior to them. Like, people are generally misguided to feel superior based on their purchases but your deep insight cuts through all that bullshit. Well, whatever makes you feel good.

>I don't know what you are talking about when you get into fanboys and mass hysteria.

What I was talking about is that the common "fanboy" accusation ("Apple purchasers are fanboys") makes no sense when talking about 100 million people. And neither do incoherent BS notions like the "reality distortion field", like millions of consumers suddenly had some kind of mass hysteria and couldn't see reality anymore.

How about: people evaluate what they need, what they can afford and what they want and buy accordingly?

>I gather that you are responding to some tribal enemy, because you go on to accuse them of being cheapskates or envious people.

You gather wrong. Reading comprehension is a bitch, though, so I sympathize. What I say is that people that talk ill of people buying Apple, with BS notions (from your dime-a-dozen pop-psychology, to the "fanboy" or Reality Distortion Field accusations), are probably either envious or cheapskates. For, if you are not envious, then you don't even care what others buy or not. Oh, and you keep using this word "tribe". I don't think it means what you think it means.