WesDym on Nostr: The Apple cult is weird to me. There were lots of different microcomputers around in ...
The Apple cult is weird to me. There were lots of different microcomputers around in the '70s and '80s, and I got to try most of them. There was nothing uniquely different about Apple. In fact, they almost went out, like most of them did. Jobs even left the company for awhile. From my view, some kind of creepy marketing is what's led to today's bizarre worship of this otherwise fairly ordinary (and, I feel, overpriced) brand. It's the Kardashian of personal computers.
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