Microsoft sits at the opposite side of the spectrum with most of it's clients being highly critical of it, and passionately angry at nonsense, except in the case of XBox, other gaming consoles also seem to enjoy very high brand loyalty; I also see it with GNOME.
When you can convince people that all they have to do is buy in to your system and everything will be fine, that gets you religious levels of dedication. And of course the people who buy in are deeply invested in their not-easily-reversed decision, so they market you for free!
I keep hearing about this, but except for BSODs (which are super rare these days), but I haven't ever had this happen to me. My guess is that the people complaining about this stuff are the ones abusing their systems, and not telling you that part (the kind that would postpone updates for <<years>> and then wonder why Sasser or whatever were a thing).
yup, save for overclocking (or undervolting, which is essentially the same) I have not seen BSODs for a decade plus. I have seen laptops overheat due to clogged/uncleaned air vents, but that's a hardware issue.
flip note: what's wrong w/ the parent's post to deserve the downvotes.
Probably people are rattled at being told that the well-documented phenomenon of spontaneous Windows reboots are somehow their own fault for "abusing their systems".
There's a toggle switch in update settings to explicitly disallow rebooting without intervention. It was ignored. Checked the system log and everything.
I guess I'm just holding it wrong...
That one is a fair point. I bet it did have 'intervention', showed a message it would reboot in whatever minutes and proceeded later.
Personally I use windows offline updater, and ignore the built-in 'windows updater'. 'shutdown /a' aborts an initiated shutdown
Apple is fully form over function. Macs laptops are anything but good engineering (hardware wise)
I prefer it. I have Windows and Linux boxes (gaming and tinkering respectively) but when I just want to do stuff I reflexively grab for my Macs.
If they don't have the same value to you - great. That's why it's awesome to have choice. But pretending there is no difference in value for everyone because there isn't any for you is silly (and more than a tad narcissistic).
> but the outrage comes from an underlying expectation that Apple products should be flawless.
This is particularly silly. Apple has a reputation for product tying and expecting one to buy other products, also made by Apple. We've all seen the MacBook Wheel parody that, though parodious and exaggerated, shows the reputation it has for form-over-function and consumers that are too loyal to see they are paying more for less.
If Microsoft were to require something such as this, no one would come to it's defence on the same level I've seen with Apple, except, as said, with XBox, but that seems to be a common thing with gaming consoles, but Nintendo seemingly enjoying even higher loyalty.
Apple has convinced people that wearing their products give them "uniqueness". Tesla has something similar, but with "change the world".
You will hear other excuses that are more tangible, but those are the brain listing features that have little to do with why someone bought it.
Apples poor record on privacy, security, performance, and ease of use should all be stark reminders that marketing sells products.
It's not typically the brand loyalists that do the hating.