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This movie confirms why I will never own an Apple product...


Well, this film is very well made, let's be honest. I'm very anti-Apple because of reasons anyone else is anti-Apple. And it shows in the film just within the first 10 minutes, that even Steve Jobs is struggling with his own decicions.
"Don't you have a screwdriver?"
"It can't be open with a screwdriver, it needs special tools to be opened and I don't have them with me".
(Not an actual dialogue from the movie, just a short version)

I had a friend who was good with technology and could fix *beep* for himself. He had an iPhone and a single water droplet got into jack socket of it and ruined it. He wrote to Apple to fix it on warranty, but they declined as they said he damaged the thing himself and they only could offer to fix it for half the value of the phone. He decided to fix it himself, because he knew he could, but couldnt get inside the *beep* thing without damaging it, because he didn't have the "Special tools".

I have a friend living in London, being die-hard user of iPhone and iPad. He has the cheapest TV in his room (like 20 inches or so) and is going through life as cheap as he can, but he owns those two *beep* things. And once he asked me to borrow my laptop, because he needed to do some online tests and *beep* to get a promotion in his job. I borrowed him my laptop, and when he was done, he asked if he could keep it a bit longer, because he got into some online game that wasn't avaliable for Apple users. I left him my laptop. He gave it back to me couple months ago with some *beep* installed on it, so he can access some Apple media or something, that I can't uninstall (seriously).

I'm anti-apple because I think Apple products are highly overpriced and inaccessible. I dress myself in shops with casual clothing and the way I look at iStore is the same as I look at United Colors of Benetton store - rich hipster's stores. And both are always almost empty when I pass them by in the shopping center.

And the movie proves that behind all what I hated about Apple products stands one guy, that is kinda self-centered dickhead, thinking of himself as artist of computing. I liked the movie, as the movie as it is great job of Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin (mostly Sorkin) with actors giving great performances, but it let me understand why I'm so anti-apple. I wonder if when Bill Gates will die, some skilled screenwriter-director team will be able to make movie about him so soon after his death and Apple fans will feel the same.

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Oh, and to be honest I didn't read much about the movie before I've seen it, so I was patiently waiting for it to show Jobs going full douche before iPhone and iPad launch. Luckily it was spared.

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LOL @ this whole thread....such anger at Apple....

Are they cheap? No.

Do Apple/Mac products do just what their buyers want? Yes.

So if it doesnt do what you want, dont buy it....But buying an Apple product doesnt make its customers hipster snobs...no more than buying a larger house in a different neighborhood does....no more than buying a Mercedes vs a Ford make you a jerk either way.

Henry Ford was an Antisemite....Walt Disney resented Jews....Lindbergh was a Hitler sympathizer...Lots of people are jerks Carnegie, Gates, Rockefeller, Morgan, Edison....we still buy their products. Steve Jobs could be the biggest jerk on the planet....

...but....

If he makes a product I like for a price that I find reasonable, im going to buy it. I've owned Macs...I've owned PCs....Ive owned IPhones...Ive owned Androids...All of them have their purpose and place....

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I owned a stupid Mac back when you still had to insert a floppy to run it, only because the architects at work decreed Macs (hmm, sounds like a Jobs thing, decreeing). Architects cant run a PC, too complicated. It was an interesting curiosity which I unloaded. Watching the movie helped me understand why Apple people are so self-important, so left-wingy, so arrogant, such snobs. You couldn't pay me to on an Apple product.

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Not to mention Apple owns sweatshops in Asia

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