Varför är Androidananvändare så hatiska mot iPhone och Apple?

At this point, after seeing how fast it can run, I have to take Adobe’s side in the Apple vs. Adobe war.

Think about it. We’re supposed to believe that Adobe can make a great client for Windows and Linux, but cannot do it for the Mac because they are inept? Come on, man, it doesn’t even make any sense. Linux has far less desktop market share than does Mac, yet somehow, someway, Flash is butter smooth.

Clearly Apple is complicit in screwing up Flash on its platform. Whether it’s petty vindictiveness or to further their own vision of HTML5, or whatever, I do not know, but I do know one thing … Jobs is using his very own customers as pawns in his personal piss war. Not only is he using them, but he is charging them a premium to do so.

How many times have you heard this from a Mac user: “You use Windows/Linux because you can’t afford a Mac.”

I remember being told the same thing when I bought my first Android phone. Nevermind the fact that my EVO and the iPhone cost the same amount (reality is irrelevant to iPeople), most Apple users convince themselves that those who don’t own Apple devices are poor.

Here’s the thing, though, even if I had $100 million sitting in a bank account, I would not go out and buy a Ford Escort for $200,000. I don’t care how cool, niche, and retro the Ford Escort had become. If I had $100 million sitting in a bank account, I would continue to walk and take the bus. I am 100% serious.

If something is not worth the money to me, I am not going to buy it just because I can. Once upon a time (only a year or two ago), I hated Windows so much that Macs were worth the money to me. Linux wasn’t quite there yet with regards to multimedia apps, so I paid large markups for a toy UNIX with decent media apps.

That paradigm no longer exists. Cinderella and Lives are very capable editors, and get this … they are free. Hell, the entire Operating System is free.

So, why do people so consistently tout the superiority of their Macs? Why are they so defensive? Why do they have such hostility for users of other platforms? Why are they so convinced of the infallibility of Apple?

The answer is simple. It’s as old as humankind itself.

Insecurity.

Whether they admit it or not, most people wonder “Who am I?” on a fairly routine basis.

“Am I the confident playa that I pretend to be on Friday nights?” “Am I the homeboy wigger with the sideways baseball cap that I portray on Saturdays?” “Am I the artsy, intellectual guy that hangs out in coffee shops on Sundays?” “Am I the ruthless business guy that I portray on Mondays?”

Deep-down, I think we all know the answer to all of the above is “none of the above”.

Most of us are just regular people. Average American wage slaves, rife with insecurities, with pimples on our ass and frequent constipation. We’re just trying to eek out one more day before the world realizes that we’re frauds.

One more day before people realize that we aren’t that smart. One more day before people realize that our dicks are small. One more day before people realize that we’ve never sold drugs in Alphabet City. One more day before people realize that we secretly listen to Nickelback instead of Yo La Tengo when we’re alone. One more day before people realize that we can’t draw a straight line with a ruler.

This is where Apple comes in.

You see, Apple taps into the same brain center that Porsche taps into. It’s an identity. An instant, effortless one at that. It promises instant credibility in return for a credit card number. It makes you different without your having to be different. It gives you creativity without your having to be creative. Apple is consumerism at its most extreme.

Consumerism is the practice of purchased self-esteem. It’s the transference of recognition from the high-profile to the low-profile. Nobody knows your name, but they do know what the glowing Apple means, and if they think the glowing Apple is exclusive, they will have no choice but to concede that you are also exclusive.

If you buy a $2,500 Mac Pro that comes with only 3GB of memory and a 1TB Hard Drive, and someone asks you if you are happy with your purchase, you can’t say “no”.

Why?

Because the very premise of an image product dictates that the superiority of the image product be upheld at any and all times, without exception or question.

Somewhere in their gut, Mac users know that their $1,700 laptops should run Flash acceptably, but they will never admit it. They cannot admit it.

Doing so would be like admitting that the $10,000 diamond ring they bought for their fiance’ really has no value. It would be like admitting that the Porsche they bought gets them to work in the same amount of time as their neighbor’s Honda Civic. It would be like admitting that the History class they took at Yale used the exact same textbook that the History class at the local community college uses.

The house of cards that is the pretentious, consumerist life demands that we give the objects of our identity the highest of ratings. We have to tout them in order for them to retain their value. “I went to a great school”. “I drive a great car.” “Oh yes, the Mac was so worth it because as everyone knows, Macs are the best.”

You play up image purchases because they make you feel better about yourself. It’s the same reason you bought the product in the first place. Paying an image markup and then shitting on the image is like flushing your own money down the toilet.