The Macalope shouldn’t have to list his Apple bonafides. His head is, after all, shaped like a Classic Mac. What else does a guy have to do? Get a tattoo? Because I’m not doing that. Sounds like it hurts.
But let’s just take it as writ that the Macalope generally likes Apple products. The Macalope tends not to use the word “fan” anymore because it implies a level of blind adherence and, to be clear, there have been some bad Apple fans over the years. People who are just bad people and people who act like no one should buy any other company’s products ever, shoehorning Macs, iPhones, and iPads into whatever job requires being done. Clearly, the Macalope has his personal preferences, but he’s long said there are very good reasons to use other smartphones, other computers, and other spatial computing devices. He supposes it’s possible.
Overall, he just likes Apple products better. That said, there are certainly still some things the company does that he finds absolutely baffling. Recently he’s noticed three that have inexplicably continued to get his goat for years now.
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