That's a terrible straw man. There is universal dislike for bad engineering. Butterfly keyboards and touch bar for example...
Yep. Fuck the butterfly keyboard and touch bar. But I'll still get an Apple laptop next time I get a new device because it's the least annoying when they don't let Ive run amok.
Only because Apple's track record so far is a lot better than Asus' or other OEMs in terms of not adding novelty or gadget-y features to their pro products.
Apple has mastered the second mover advantage. They let all the other companies blow money on R&D and educating users while they simply observe the pain points. Then, they swoop in a few years later and reap the benefits.
To be fair, they don't just "reap the benefits". They are working hard at improving new technology until it is really a product. They have many prototypes long before the first product, but don't end up selling those prototypes.
Did you forget the touchbar or the “low travel keys” that break after a few months?
I feel apple lost the edge on innovation on the desktop space a long time ago.
What novelty features did Asus do? Apple did touchbar, the thinnest keyboard on earth, a super underpowered 12 inch MacBook, a screen with an iphone build in. And that is only the last few years.
In Asia I saw Asus laptops with "tribal tattoos" decoration on the shell. That sort of "novelty".
I mean there also (or used to be) a golden iphone.
No, but they did take away lots of important features from their pro products purely for novelty. Things like ports, for instance.
Yep, and they added them back in and the current M1 MacBook Pros are their best yet.
Apple wouldn't release it though. They'd take one look at the massive crease in the middle of the screen and say "no".
I suspect that says more about your own innate biases than it says about the users of this site.
It might be a small minority but there are still quite a few Apple apologists on this site. That's fandom for you. Tech is notorious for it.
I bet you've heard the saying "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" . That's what Apple is. You can be a "fan" of the one-eyed man without believing everything he makes or says is awesome.
I think most people are aware of fandoms and that some people will blindly support something, but that's very different from saying "this site would be cheering for it".