Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "How Apple authorized repair refurbishes Macbooks to fail again! GPU kernel panics" video.

  1. What people have generally to get is that yes, Apple has some pros and qualities to their stuff, but it's not magic lala land utopia. They don't pay sweddish virgin nuns living on high steep futuristic factories to build your iPhones with their nipples using unobtainium and unicorn ivory or something. Your hardware is being assembled by the exact same chinese companies as hardware from Microsoft and Google. And a good part of components inside Apple products are exactly the same as in products from the competition, though Apple has been slowly working their way towards designing their own stuff - by purchasing other companies btw. Apple is still a corporation, and it still holds the most classic problems in corporate environment, mass production, cutting corners and whatnot. There is still too much unjustifiable fetishization around the brand's products, and by extention what the company does. Their software and OS might be better for some case scenarios, and I agree they have better design teams and UX overall (relatively speaking, I don't think that holds much truth nowadays anymore), but it's a whole ton of PR and advertisement, and a whole ton of time and money spent on branding. Which is quite unfortunately a loss for all of us. Why? Because Apple is the biggest corporation in terms of profitability, which means the vast majority of the market cares more about branding than anything else. This signals a trend for other corporations to do the same. I'm also not against Apple users... though I am against Apple apologists, fanboys, and fanatics. There are plenty of jobs and scenarios where it really does make sense for people to use Macs, Macbooks, iPhones, iPads and other Apple products. From usability perspective, to productivity and whatnot. But it's not all cases, and not without drawbacks. And people should always think thoroughly about their choices. It's why I don't buy the "but I always used Macs, so they must be the best" argument. If you never tried using other brands, how can you tell? And I mean really used, not just tested and dismissed imediately because it wasn't familiar to you. And I get that some people don't even wanna try because it's just convenient to stick with Apple, but if that's the case, just say so. Don't presume you know better if you didn't even try.
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