General wisdom of the day for a better life: hate less, love more.
This goes hand in hand with my second general wisdom: don't look at products as part of a brand, but as a seperate entity.
Why ? This makes me more neutral in my opinions and it makes me brand-agnostic. Whereas I don't like most Samsung phones, they have some excellent SSDs and TVs. I'm not going to mention which I like/dislike specifically, it doesn't matter. But do I hate the product or the brand ? No. Why would I ? I could just ignore them if I feel a product is not for me.
I don't agree with Google's way of earning money (selling your information to advertising) but I don't hate them but I avoid them.
I think Apple's product design is the pinnacle of modern engineering and I couldn't care less how the world acts around the brand.
I don't understand why people have strong negative feelings towards a company. In the end they sell a product at a certain price and you choose if you want it or not. Strong emotions just make you not see the product as it is, but as you see it.
A good anecdote I regularly see on Anandtech: there are no bad products, just wrong prices.
Like the Google's products, while I don't like selling my privacy, they do offer very good value for money on their services and products.
Or Apple's products, while they are very well crafted, they do cost more in general.
This is also true for Windows 10 for me: since Microsoft wants to profit from my data and sell me apps to make money, I think paying $125 for Windows is absurd when most people can upgrade for free and get the same experience. So they should offer it for free to everyone.
