 So today's video is going to be a little bit different than all of my others and Part of the reason why is that it's not really about Linux because today I want to talk about Apple now I know I'm gonna lose a lot of people who have no interest in Apple whatsoever. So for those of you who don't want to watch this Thanks for tuning in. I'll see you next time. I'm just gonna sit here and ramble I'll probably still be rambling when you come back tomorrow But the the point I want to make today or the the thing that I want to talk about today Isn't really anything to do with Apple getting sued But it definitely is what caused me to think about this because Apple has had a weird effect on my life and despite the fact that I haven't used a Macintosh computer in over a decade and And and the fact that I still while I have an iPhone. I don't have any affinity to this phone I Constantly think of replacing it because it's you know, not that good of a phone and I prefer Android and every time I use an iPhone. I remember why I prefer Android So I don't have any particular loyalty to Apple like a lot of other people do, you know, like I don't use a Mac I'm a Linux guy. Well, I have an iPhone I'd happily use an Android phone if somebody wanted to you know, buy me one and you know I don't have loyalty to Apple like I used to like I did used to be an Apple fanboy like like every university student back in the Early 2000s. I had one of those white MacBook Computers that was like a clam show It was like a thousand dollars You could often go to the university computer store and pick them up for 750 because there was they're always having discounts You could buy used ones for you know 500 bucks or whatever Everyone at that point seemed to have one if you were in university and I was no different and that was my first experience with a Mac It got me into the Apple ecosystem. I bought the first iPhone, which was horrendously overpriced at the time Like today we went think anything of spending six hundred dollars on a phone, but at the time everyone was like what the How dare they cost that much in fact for those just a brief history lesson The first iPhone was so overpriced and people fricked out about it so much the Apple actually lowered the price Either a few weeks or a couple months after it was launched like by a hundred bucks that's that that actually happened because there was so overpriced at the time Now today, you know, you can't even buy Like the most recent iPhone for 600 bucks. It's like 800 bucks minimum or whatever. It's insane But the point is is that I was an Apple fanboy, but I am no longer one but it's weird because When I read the Apple was being sued there was still a part of me that was very interested and even to this day despite again The fact that I have no interest in Maintaining using this phone for longer than it works, which unfortunately will probably work for a long time Despite all of that and I still watch every single Apple event. There's something about Apple that when they do get their hooks into you you tend to stick around Even if you don't continue to use their devices you still maintain some level of interest. It's really Really weird and I don't understand it like I can't sit in this video and say I understand The reason why Apple has this effect on me and other people There aren't many other companies out there that can have Three or four events every year and have dedicated fans who turn up just to watch the events Like this is the announcement of a phone or it's announcement of the next operating system And it's an operating system that or at least a few operating systems that I'm never going to use like I'm never gonna spend $4,000 on a vision pro couldn't care less about that device right you couldn't probably even give it to me to be honest with you and You know, but I still I'll tune in to WWDC in June I'm gonna watch the whole keynote. In fact, I'll probably catch some of the uploaded Classes that they put up on YouTube because those things always tend to interest me just a little bit and I don't I can't explain it And that's what I want to talk. That's what kind of what I want to talk about today Is that Apple has this effect on people who aren't even members of the Apple community or at least a lot of people? I know I know that you know, this doesn't happen to everybody, but I'm kind of weird that way But they do have this kind of distortion field effect and they pull you in it's like a gravitational pull and It's hard or almost impossible to get away from it Even if you've stopped using their devices, you still have at least if you're like me You still have some interest when they announced something new because I think and here's where I think that it You know, there's kind of an explanation here is that Apple has in the past announced devices and operating systems mostly devices that have changed the way we look at technology, so They've never been first to anything there were smartphones before the iPhone there were computers before the Macintosh There were tablets before the iPad there were your their headphones before the AirPods, you know You get the idea. They've never come out and been innovative about Very much at all now like you could argue that like something like the Newton was innovative But nobody bought the Newton, right? It was it was way before it's time So Apple has had for some reason the ability to take technology that already exists and make it not only Interesting for a lot of people but something that a lot of people are Interested in buying now. They've never owned the market outside of the mobile space so that The Macintosh hasn't been a dominant player in the market since the early 90s really since windows came out but they still have managed to continually bring out devices that attract an interest Beyond what they should not always beyond what they should but sometimes beyond what they should so a good example of this is the Apple Vision Pro, which is a stupid fucking name, but whatever, okay? This gigantic pound-and-a-half thing you put on your face That basically gives you a Mac and or an iPhone on your face now. I have Serious doubts about virtual VR and AR. I don't think that AR is You know anything that's going to be around for a very long time because until they can miniaturize the technology So they look like a piece of you know glasses where you know, it's just not gonna be there Nobody wants no no sane person wants to go out with that gigantic honking honking thing on their face and walk around but People did it anyways like if you paid any attention to tiktok or Twitter or Facebook You saw these weirdos out there in New York City and Chicago wearing this $4,000 piece of technology first off brass balls on all of you to wear $4,000 on your face and not expect to get You know your head blown in You know an air conked on the head and stolen from you and just Brass balls, but also you look like a fool like we all know you look like a fool You know that you look like a fool But for some reason the vast majority of people who saw other people doing this in real life are like oh That's kind of cool. That's kind of neat. What is that like? How does it work? a lot of this Apple stuff when it's announced like the Apple Vision Pro is actually covered on Local news like every time the Apple makes an announcement you go and watch the news and it's just not just the national news But your local news will often cover the fact that Apple had an announcement They don't do this for any other company. They don't you don't hear about Samsung announcing their Latest and greatest galaxy phones on the local news, but every time there's a new iPhone You turn on the local news and there's the new iPhone, you know, they could cover it It's really astonishingly weird now. Maybe this is just the u.s. Thing I don't know what this is like in other countries. Maybe they don't have this pull I know in terms of market share The iPhone doesn't do as well outside of the u.s. Market, but here in the United States. There's this Shall I say Cult of interest About all things Apple and it's just astonishingly weird And I have been caught up with it caught up in it basically since 2000 What 2005 2006 when I was in university when I first bought that first Macintosh when I first got interested in I haven't been able to Fully pull myself away from it ever since that I'm still very interested in everything that they announced For whatever reason like I'm not going to buy a vision pro I do have a pair of AirPods, but you'll never catch me buying one of those things again Like just sidebar first off airpods. They I have the AirPods pro the second generation They're first really expensive like it's an apple product, but also They do sound good. They sound really good, but man, are they fucking easy to lose like They for whatever reason first off they don't fit in my ears even with the appropriate tip and they fall out and for whatever reason they always fall out into something The same color is them. So I never find them and Apple has created a little thing where you can go on your iPhone and have it Tell your air pod to play a sound the sound is so faint. You can't hear where it's coming from It's kind of like playing in a cave. So kind of sounds like it's coming all around you But it's very very faint. It's annoying as fuck. So I'm never buying that's not really an air pods specific thing But it's just my first experience with really expensive your your your buds and I don't like it whatsoever, but That that was a side rant and now I don't remember really where I was But the point I've been trying to make is just that apple is a weird company And despite being a linux guy I have still some Weird ass loyalty slash interest in a company that I really shouldn't like I shouldn't have an interest in apple It's this this phone here is just it's a phone Eventually, I will either replace it because I really want to go back to android or I'll just stick with it until dies You know one of the two not sure which at this moment dependent on Really, honestly, whether or not upgrade this one will depend on what they do with iOS 18 in the In this in the summer because I want some customization. That's what I really want But that's neither here nor there again I'm gonna I'm gonna tune in to WWDC and watch that entire thing for that reason and I will be blatantly disappointed like Emotionally invested in whether or not their announcements are good Why does this happen? This shouldn't happen. It's really stupid. I if Canonical came out and had an event And they they do this actually seven once all not like an apple event But they do they go to conferences and stuff like that and every once in a while You'll see, you know, one of the big wigs up there talking one of the developers up They're talking in a in a in a paper or whatever. I don't pay attention to any of that stuff now i'm not a nabuchi guy, but Sousa puts on events all the damn time I don't pay attention to any of that stuff and i'm a linux guy right And despite the fact that I feel like I have loyalty and I have a ton of interest in in linux. I don't have the same Fanaticism or doesn't feel like it doesn't feel the same It maybe it is the same, but it doesn't feel the same. Maybe it's because I don't I don't know. I don't even I can't explain it. It's really Really weird and I wanted to ramble about it for a little while because I think that I think that there are a lot of people out there that are kind of like me that have this weird Association with apple now There are also people out there who can't stand apple have never been able to stand apple And they want nothing to do with apple. They think it's fucking hilarious The apple has gotten sued and they want them broken up and whatever both Situations are perfectly fine with me. I don't care which end of that spectrum You're on have a fight in the comment section below If you want to have a fight in the comment section below about apple and whatever I don't have an opinion one way or another not really Because I'm more introspective about it. I'm more interested in why Despite all of the things the apple does that are you know evil despite the 10 plus years I've gone since using a macintosh and my apathy towards the iphone I still have interest In apple so much so that I'll watch every event that I care about You know this lawsuit or whatever for whatever reason. I don't even care which way it goes I still want to pay attention to it because it's like high entertainment. It's Weird like there's no other company on the planet Like apple none none that garnered that type of interest from at least myself But it feels like a lot of other people are in the exact same boat It just feels like they garnered this really odd Collection of people for some reason like what is it about apple that? Draws so many people in it's weird now Is it the same kind of thing that draws in people to linux? It doesn't feel the same Like I said, it just doesn't feel the same So I don't know it was a weird video if you stuck it out all the way to the end that through this rambling mess God bless your soul Merlin help us if you will That's it That's it for this video if you have thoughts on any of this stuff comments in the comment section below I promise I'll get back onto the linux stuff coming up next, you know the next video because you know I should just stay in my lane is what I should do and I will from now on i'm not gonna i'm not gonna become an apple iOS whatever channel that's just not gonna happen. 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