argument over.

you hate Apple because someone with a nicer haircut than you likes their iPhone. That doesn't make you a rebel, it makes you a douchebag.

Which you do everytime you install it. So, to install it you have to accept the license--and once you've accepted the license then you run afoul of the law when you break that license (which says, among other things, not to install it on non-Apple hardware).

Maybe everyone was there by mistake, thinking it was a Hollister or something.

The slashdot crowd doesn't understand that and thus they don't understand why Apple is so successful. The "marketing" crap is your best attempt to rationalize Apple's success without having to expand your tiny little world.

Meanwhile, Apple is on their way to being the first $1 trillion company because nearly everyone else in the world understands something that you don't: "The ONLY point of technology is to make life easier for humans"--by that definition, Apple cranks out the best technology using the best engineering. Deal with it.

JK

Google makes all their smartphones out of hemp in the US using union labor and then donates all the profits to orphans...orphans with diseases.

You hate Apple because someone with a better haircut than you likes Apple--stop pretending it is any more noble than that.

I didn't notice any ads on my OSX desktop today.

> Google did not use their search engine patents as competitive weapons. Instead, they chose to make their money the old-fashioned way: By selling things that their customers find useful.

Google makes money by selling your eyes (via advertising) to corporations. Apple makes money by selling things that people want. Check the scoreboard, how much money has Google made from hardware or software sales--they aren't in the same league as Apple.