ooo, yes, you all live such tortured existences because someone doesn't stroke your ego every five seconds about your choice of computer products. Seriously. Get lives. If you were really appreciative of the product, it wouldn't MATTER to you what other people think.
All part of the apple hype that apple is some kind of "lifestyle choice."
iPhone owners DO think they're envied.
"Comes with the territory?" Please. If you let what someone thinks of your phone or computer get you down enough to whine about it on the internet, never mind that there are hundreds of people who "feel your pain," you need serious therapy.
Yes, I have a mac, but no, I don't feel superior about that.
Well, as stated above, for those of us who owned and sang the praises of Macs in the late 80's to late 90's there was a lot of hate for Apple. One bad CEO after another, you couldn't tell the Macs even with a scorecard, and Apple was acting as an early adopter of the "Longhorn" method of OS development. Unless you were a graphic artist telling someone you used a Mac was like telling them you rode a Vespa to work. The lowest point was Bill Gate$ showing up at MW Expo.
So for those of us who suffered through the Michael Dell "Sell the company and return the money to the stockholders" comments, or the buyout of the quarter rumors there is a certain sense of "If you're not with us you're against us" mentallity. You needed it to be a Mac owner, and being a Mac owner in large part meant you had to become an evangelist.
That became part of the Macintosh, and now Apple, culture. Now that Apple is cool I'm not going to ask for permission to do what I, and many others, had to do as consumers to try to keep Apple alive. We're 1969 Mets fans, amazed and lost in the glory of the bum's we loved being reborn as champions.
Apple has risen from the ashes and I'm going to say "I told you so" to as many people as I can. You can argue the aesthetics of the products, the usability of the UI, and so forth, but for the most part Apple does create a better class of product. Not always the best, not always with every feature that the user may want, but generally the comprimises that Apple makes are better than those of the other companies.