"Apple products are considered chic, and people merely buy them for the fad value."
Yeah. A "fad" that lasted for 12 years now, since the introduction of OS X with ever-increasing Mac/OS X/Apple sales. Are you kidding me?
Have you ever been to a conference for geeks/hackers/programmers? Most of the laptops you'll see are Macs. Go to Python, Ruby, Rails, Mongo, MySQL, Node.js and whatever conferences -- hey, even in Java conferences, despite Apple not caring about the language at all. You can also try visiting a university such as Stanford and see which are the most popular laptops there. Most people on Hacker News use a Mac too (according to a recent HN poll I saw).
You seriously believe that all those highly technical and capable people are victims of a 10-12 year old "fad"?
Btw, even Linus Torwalds (which doesn't like OS X's os tech) admitted that he wrote his autobiography on an iBook, running OS X and using Word. (Torwalds also used an Apple G5 as his desktop machine for a while, though he run Linux on it).
> Have you ever been to a conference for geeks/hackers/programmers? Most of the laptops you'll see are Macs. Go to Python, Ruby, Rails, Mongo, MySQL, Node.js and whatever conferences -- hey, even in Java conferences
Hell, go to Google I/O, half the machines there seem to be macs.
Yeah. A "fad" that lasted for 12 years now, since the introduction of OS X with ever-increasing Mac/OS X/Apple sales. Are you kidding me?
Have you ever been to a conference for geeks/hackers/programmers? Most of the laptops you'll see are Macs. Go to Python, Ruby, Rails, Mongo, MySQL, Node.js and whatever conferences -- hey, even in Java conferences, despite Apple not caring about the language at all. You can also try visiting a university such as Stanford and see which are the most popular laptops there. Most people on Hacker News use a Mac too (according to a recent HN poll I saw).
You seriously believe that all those highly technical and capable people are victims of a 10-12 year old "fad"?
Btw, even Linus Torwalds (which doesn't like OS X's os tech) admitted that he wrote his autobiography on an iBook, running OS X and using Word. (Torwalds also used an Apple G5 as his desktop machine for a while, though he run Linux on it).