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Marketing and advertising are carefully crafted in a way to cultivate dislike and even hatred towards other brands. Another aspect is that is becomes easy to throw ones allegiance to alternate brands if you feel one particular one has slighted you - usually in North America this is a result of poor customer service or RMA support. Sometimes it is difficult for Europeans to understand the second aspects as those of you in the EU under consumer protection laws are usually (not always) well taken care of. In NA, we are often times only slightly above what the Asian markets can expect in terms of RMA/support.The last aspect is morality/ethics - someone who likes to tweak and tinker with electronics they buy may be put off by Apple's ethos. Similarly, someone who fully respects and appreciates open source philosophy may be downright furious with Apple's practice of taking open source platforms and software, tweaking it, and then making it proprietary.There's usually some combination of the three things I mentioned at play. I prefer to also base my purchases on price/performance/features/support rather than brand preference. Further to this, I don't typically care where a product is made either, so long as the quality is apparent.
Marketing and advertising are carefully crafted in a way to cultivate dislike and even hatred towards other brands. Another aspect is that is becomes easy to throw ones allegiance to alternate brands if you feel one particular one has slighted you - usually in North America this is a result of poor customer service or RMA support. Sometimes it is difficult for Europeans to understand the second aspects as those of you in the EU under consumer protection laws are usually (not always) well taken care of. In NA, we are often times only slightly above what the Asian markets can expect in terms of RMA/support.
The last aspect is morality/ethics - someone who likes to tweak and tinker with electronics they buy may be put off by Apple's ethos. Similarly, someone who fully respects and appreciates open source philosophy may be downright furious with Apple's practice of taking open source platforms and software, tweaking it, and then making it proprietary.
There's usually some combination of the three things I mentioned at play. I prefer to also base my purchases on price/performance/features/support rather than brand preference. Further to this, I don't typically care where a product is made either, so long as the quality is apparent.
