Why is Apple the only tech company with a cult like following?

>>56507014
They use cult like marketing tactics.

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Because they are tapping into the same demographic that has it in their nature to form cult like behavior

>>56507014
They're not

>>56507014
Because it's the only company where everything just works

Tesla would like a word

>>56507014
Nintendo is the Apple of gaming. You can't dispute this after Miyamoto showed up at the iPhone 7 reveal.

>>56507014
pretty much every sizable vendor has a cult of some kind around it, just look at fucking IBM on /g/, companies like Commodore, Sun and SGI had fanboys of a similar caliber too that I can think of from off-hand experience (go into a retro thread some time and (You) an amigatard)

>>56507143
Nintendo actually makes good software though.

>>56507159
So does Apple

what is:
>microsofts xbox division
>sony

>>56507173
gamers dont count

kids only bantz for fun

>>56507143
Nintendo really is the Apple of gayming
>Consoles are anywhere from meh to not so good
>Fan base is obsessive, and many members do not have much of a life
>Can do no wrong on the eyes of their fan base
>Normies like them quite a bit

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>>56507172

>>56507192
here's that (You) you're begging for xD

>>56507143
Nintendo = Apple

Sony = Android

Microsoft = Windows phone

>>56507172

Prove it

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>>56507048
/thread

>>56507014
Do chinkpads?

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>>56507014
Didn't they literally build their following like a religion for a while?

>>56507014
it's called marketing technology as fashion accessories

>>56507372
Source?

>>56507313
>Nintendo = Apple
Yep both have locked down 3rd party support and both have had people cry over their CEOs dying and working till their last breath

>Sony = Android
Both are a mess with bad marketing and only liked by indians

>Microsoft = Windows phone
The devices that no one wants

I agree here

>>56507014
I wish I could get a serious truthful answer to this question

I always thought it was investors trying to make sure their stock doesn't fail, so they buy apple products to make their value doesn't decrease

>>56507372
Lifehacker?

Of course theyd know about playing ball with apple

>>56507549
>nintendo
>3rd party support

u dum?

Doesn't South Korea have a culture built around corporation worship?

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>>56507014
The irony is that they wanted the exact opposite in the beginning.
Now they have all these people sitting like in their 1984 commercial (youtube it) blindly following.
They did notice that a long time ago and quickly adapted.

Google fans are just as bad. Google in their eyes is "the good guys" but I think they're worse than Microsoft because they're more competent about public relations.

>>56507551
>>56507091 had a pretty good point even though it got deleted for some reason

Apple knew how to market shit, they knew how to make their brand and their products memorable, they knew how to make them exciting. They have a regular product announcement schedule, they put on a show as well as a reveal.

Dell doesn't, HP doesn't, IBM didn't, few other vendors really got it this way, they didn't give a shit about their own products as long as profits were maximized, so they continued to build a bewildering variety of 80 different sub-models of the same boring copycat trash engineered by focus groups and specifically tailored to every corner walmart. Nobody was there for the Pavilion dv6525us, or the Precision M4300, or the NetVista A40i, or whatever, because even the fucking vendors didn't give a shit about them either.

>>56507989
Google fans are just as bad.
Google is not friendly, it's a company. Also they stole moot.

Sent from my Nexus 6P via Clover

>>56507964
>The irony is that they wanted the exact opposite in the beginning.
no they didn't, the counter-culture bullshit was a fucking marketing stunt like anything else, taking advantage of the fact that their primary competitor (in their minds) was a textbook megacorp/cult/satan and especially considering apple hardware during jobs' first tenure was always built with mass consumption in mind above all else (the entire fucking idea of the Mac, for fuck sake)

>>56507143
I dont think there's actually an "Apple of gaming"

>>56508069
What's always been really bizarre about Apple trying to claim the "counter-culture" mantle is that they're not and have never been some poor little beleaguered indie startup. There was a time in the early 80s where Apple dominated personal computing, and they fucked up and lost out to Microsoft (which was at the time a tiny bunch of software merchants) for no other reason than their own incompetence and snooty refusal to form bonds with other vendors.

Because Apples biggest user base is women, and women are basically sheep that do everything for the sake of appearance. The only men who use apple products are betas desperately trying to impress women.

>>56508599
>The only men who use apple products are betas desperately trying to impress women.
That's a funny way to spell faggot.

>>56508599
And I'll add the iPod saved Apple from obscurity, it gave them the a much needed cash injection and built their brand name in the eyes of normies.

All I know is that they basically own half of central station in NYC and that bugs the shut out of me.

>>56507014
Has anything Apple made been more of a failure than the battery case?

I literally haven't seen a single person with it. And I have seen at least one person with an Apple Watch.

>>56507014
At the time Apple was going bankrupt, the company with a cult like following was Microsoft.

And as I watch the current product line of apple and the direction it's taking, I see it following the same footsteps as it did once before, and it all started with the shit show called ios7

>>56507014
because even the people who claim to hate being jewed secretly just want to be jewed.

>>56508036
>Also they stole moot.
Implying mootie smoothie wouldn't have an hero if he didn't get that job, because no one else would hire someone running a Taiwanese pedophile image board

>>56507069
Name another.

>>56510010
We made his name big. (If that's good or bad, idfc) He could at least, you know, post here once in a while and make some shitposts.

>>56510045
Hating apple is more of a cult actually

>>56507014
>Why is Apple the only tech company with a cult like following?
Apple has 7% of the market. Microsoft has >90% and certainly not on the quality of their product.
Which is the cult for sheep?

>>56511669
No one buys Microsoft products to make a lifestyle statement retard

>>56507048
This
It's scary really.

>>56511701
>No one buys Microsoft products to make a lifestyle statement
Didn't you?
You bought into the MS thing because "that's what my buddies are using" with the unspoken add-on that you were too clueless to check for yourself and too scared to go against herd-think.

>>56511669
One sells cheap and useful. Other sells expensive and accessories

>>56511753
Yeah, mate.
I bought a WinMo, a Zune, and a Surface like all my buddies.

because it was the only tech company with a cult like leader.

>>56511753
Not him, but I'm only using Windows because of gay men.

also
>bought

>>56511753
Are you even trying?

>>56507546
- 4chan/g/

>>56507372
Highly relevant
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/07/reg_effort_to_attend_iphone_7_launch/

>It's been a number of years since an Apple PR staffer secretly admitted to one of our reporters that The Register was on a blacklist. We also learned that they were under strict instructions never to admit to the blacklist – presumably because it would make one of the world's largest companies look, you know, pathetically petty.

>>56508599
feels good to be a permavirgin isnt it?

>>56507049
Fish mouth syndrome

>>56511834
every company doing the same

Apple products are a fashion statement. They're not necessarily designed to be functional even compared to competing products they only have to look nice.

>>56507203

>being this buttblasted

the anti-apple cult is worse IMO

literally apple can do nothing right in their eyes

>>56507121
It only works because they don't allow anything that could possibly break it. Freedom to do what I want > being a slave to Crapple

>>56511834
Literally worse than Hitler

>>56511753
I bought a Surface because it was incredibly useful to me as a student

>>56512006
this, there are plenty of things apple does right

>>56510126
But that would piss off his Gawker girlfriend

>>56511868
Name one with source, I'm legitemately interested.

>>56512006
I'll give them mini DisplayPort and OpenCL

>>56512006
>literally apple can do nothing right in their eyes

Not really, there are things they did right like >>56512548 but the things they do wrong usually eclipse what they do right in quantity and importance.

>>56512006
There is no anti-apple cult, you don't know what that word means. What makes people compare applefags to a cult is the worship of their products.

The worst experience I had with Apple was falling for their memes sometime when I was an underage. I had one of those small Apple laptops back when they still used PowerPC and the thing fucking crashed constantly, it was even worse than wangblows because there was usually no way to escape to terminal or something other than just switching it off.

>>56512623
I was the same, had an iPhone and built a hackintosh back in highschool
Then eventually I switched to a Nexus S when it came out and installed Windows 7 on my desktop and everything just werked™

>>56507121
Nice try apple fag

>>56507014
Steam also has a big Cancer cult of kids, while all they do is scamming children out of their money with gambling and try to trick you into buying mods that are completly free. They are scum of the earth

>>56507014
Valve
Nintendo


That's pretty much it. All of these companies are beyond reproach

>>56512713
Valve are a meme and used for jokes. Nintendo has many games and IPs that have gathered a cult following, but the brand Nintendo itself doesn't.

It's basically financial domination.

Women and nu-males get turned on when big bad corporations tell them what to do.

>>56510045
Google

Maybe a few years ago, Microsoft

>>56507014
>only tech company with a cult like following?
it's not, are you fucking new here or just retarded OP

>>56507964
>youtube it
Do you seriously believe anyone talking about Apple in a thread like this doesn't know about the Super Bowl commercial?

>>56507372

>companies don't like to give shit to people who won't say nice things about it

WEW
THIS CERTAINLY MADE ME PONDER

>>56512804
Read it again to understand it correctly (you misunderstood the first time) for even more deep thinking.

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>>56508599

>>56512585

dude, relax. it's a chinese image board.

no need to get syntactic. you knew what anon meant.

>>56510045
Cisco
Dell

>>56510045
Sony (playstation)
Microsoft (xbox)
Google
Lenovo (/g/)

>>56508554
I don't really think it was that they were trying to look like an "indie startup", compared to a juggernaut like IBM they were pretty much nothing, especially in the workplace.

> and they fucked up and lost out to Microsoft (which was at the time a tiny bunch of software merchants) for no other reason than their own incompetence
Microsoft was hardly a "tiny bunch of software merchants" at that time, having supplied BASIC to pretty much every large and most small hardware vendors, including Apple themselves. Do you think IBM came to them to out of charity?

Apple didn't really "fuck up" anywhere in this respect, there was nothing they could have done. They didn't have the name, which was the entire reason for the PC's (and to a lesser extent Microsoft's) success in the first place.

>>56507014
That's not true. Nvidia has such a following as well.

>>56510045
IBM

>>56507014
Because they keep their users always slightly unhappy. They cope by becoming cultists. It's Stockholm syndrome applied to marketing.

people who don't use apple devices are ugly, both physically and emotionally. /g/ just reeeees at happy, fulfilled people who don't need to fill their neet-hours with managing their ram and shitposting about things that normal, everyday people don't care about because why should they?

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>>56516128

>>56511834
Well, I've been looking for a non-shill tech site for some time.

Looks like I found one. Arsetechnica can go fuck themselves.

>>56516304
the register is a shit website aimed at people who find the word 'fondleslab' instead of 'tablet' funny

y'know. smug, self-absorbed petty pieces of shit who -would- have cutesy aloof nicknames for devices and computers and companies that they maintain a simmering, low-key hatred of

>>56516388
Stay mad your fruity toys got snubbed iCuck.

>>56507014
Tesla in the only other mainstream company that i canthink of.

An in industrial grade i'd say Siemens

>>56508376
EA

>>56512744
You must have not experienced Iwata's death

>>56512548
I love Mini DisplayPort. Also, by using only type C on the macbooks, I'm hoping it will increase the amount of computers with USB Type-C ports and the number of Type-C products.

Sadly, this will happen too to the headphone jack now, and whereas from the end users perspective Type-C and 3.1 are functionally identical, wireless headphones need charging and apple might be leading us to an era of nothing but proprietary headphones.

>>56510227
Apple users are called "zombies" in the Snowden NSA papers. Apple is officially a cult, even for the agencies.

there is a healthy red hat cult out here in Raleigh

I've seen microsoft fanboys too.

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>>56507014
HP used to have a cult-like following.

They went to shit though.

>>56519888
HP made good products.
After they stopped making good products people stopped caring. Just like IBM.

Doesn't sound like a cult to me.

I rocked a iPhone 6s for a year and I can tell you the only redeeming feature of the fucker was the battery. I couldn't bluetooth transfer files, couldn't have custom ringtones without paying for them, couldn't make a phone call with out it dropping, couldn't even save all my pictures, when I went to back the fucker up it encrypted all my data (even when I unchecked the box). Thank god some bitch traded me even for a Samsung Galaxy s7 edge.

>>56519966
The IBM cult is still very much alive here and elsewhere

>>56519888
>HP used to have a cult-like following.
Not to mention DEC. I knew guys who'd buy anything branded PDP.

They aren't, many niches have such cult followings. Apple is just a niche market that grew to be it's own market segment.

>>56519966
> Just like IBM.
Have you never heard some variant of the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"? Just look at PCs, those things were fucking trash but they built a massive software base and sold like hotcakes on the logo alone.