Comment by andsoitis
11 hours ago
It might not be super healthy to be so emotionally invested in a company, its products, and its doings.
11 hours ago
It might not be super healthy to be so emotionally invested in a company, its products, and its doings.
What's the qualifier for "so" (in "so emotionally invested")? Did someone measure it and it's beyond the healthy range?
Parent is just passionate about the quality, or decline, of the tools he spend a good chunk of money of, and spends hours each day doing professional work with.
> Did someone measure it and it's beyond the healthy range?
The person I responded to self-identified as an "Apple fanbitch". Now they categorically say "Screw Apple."
That seems like a pretty emotional attachment swinging from one extreme to another. Attachment will cause you pain.
It could also be poking fun at themselves. Being conscious about your own perspective/attachments would be healthier and demonstrate more self-awareness than someone who insists they are a cold, robotic fact processor who can't become emotionally invested in their own preferences.
And "Apple fanbitch" was just a fun way to say they supported Apple and championed their products. Not a way to describe some emotional disregulation.
And "Screw Apple" sounds like a totally valid consumer sentiment, when the products stop serving you and get more expensive and cocky. Not some blind rage.
Everyone is different and we shouldn't judge them.
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Not having any attachment or inability to feel pain ain't good either.
And it's not a swing: it happens over years. Discontent built up by a thousand small cuts.
Things failing when you need them the most, so often that it makes you reflexively afraid the next time you think about trying it.
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I agree with you but buying in to Apple's ecosystem is more than just being emotionally invested in a company. If all of the hardware you bought is going to shit because of what Apple is doing then I think it's fair.
The hardware doesn't change after sale.
The hardware absolutely changes after sale, there have been cases of keyboard's failing (e.g. during the butterfly keyboards), backlight failures (happened to some MBP runs), cracked displays (keys pressing into them), anti-reflective coating peeling, hinge issues (in several models), display failures (discoloration, light leaks), issues with (dedicated) GPUs in intel era models, battery expansions, logic board failures (there was a program that had 2-3 rounds or replacements), touch strip failures, and many others. Also ever heard of planned obselense?
And that's just pure hardware. Hardware/battery performance dropping by OS updates has been well known, and there were a few class actions lawsuit Apple lost or settled and fined.
Ever heard of planned obsolescence? The hardware absolutely changes after sale, there have been cases of keyboard's failing (e.g. during the butterfly keyboards), backlight failures (happened to some MBP runs), cracked displays (keys pressing into them), anti-reflective coating peeling, hinge issues (in several models), display failures (discoloration, light leaks), issues with (dedicated) GPUs in intel era models, battery expansions, logic board failures (there was a program that had 2-3 rounds or replacements), touch strip failures, and many others.
And that's just pure hardware. Hardware/battery performance dropping by OS updates has been well known, and there were a few class actions lawsuit Apple lost or settled and fined.
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And you can't use the hardware without their software.
Oh yeah let's not be emotionally invested in the things you use everyday to do basically everything.
Try walking with a pebble in your shoe or sitting in a crooked chair or sleeping on a lumpy mattress and see how long before you get pissed, O Awakened Unattached Sage
Stop bending over for mediocrity.
> Stop bending over for mediocrity.
That's a false binary choice. You can also shift your purchases to other providers if you think a company is providing a shitty product.
...in the things you choose to use everyday to do basically everything
As you see, seeking validation for your anger is not well received when your own culpability goes missing.
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