GigglyBobble

That's actually not that rare when I work later than usual. Some stupid problem my brain is too fried to solve. Eventually I give up, feeling defeat for the whole evening and solve the problem in 10 mins the next morning. Get enough sleep, people.

Textbook Apple fanboy reply.

Apple devices are just status symbols. And as such, too many people that cannot really afford them buy the devices and have to tell themselves there's a rational reason to. That's also why they cheer record financial figures, passionately fight criticism or tell people having technical issues that it's their fault. It's basically Stockholm syndrome.

suggest to their customers that it’s new and innovative

I'm a big Apple critic too but to be fair that message reads pretty neutral. Where do you see the claim it's new and innovative?

While true, businesses have it even harder to migrate to Linux (what else is there when talking enshittification?) than private users. Windows and dotnet won't go anywhere anytime soon.

It's probably a tiny fraction of the C#/dotnet ecosystem. But hobbyist meme creators mostly care about games, I guess.

Yeah. Well, the whole point since the top level comment has been that people are willing to pay too much for their hardware...

I give up. Stay happy with your overpriced devices.

You can have money and still respect price-value ratios.

My point is that Apple is price gouging.

Neither one counter example nor whataboutism change the fact that Apple products are overpriced in general (and always have been). Or how do you explain their unparalleled profit margins?

And yet, people buy iPhones instead of 3 Mac minis.