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But when Apple does something, there's no room for conversation. Sites can't say "Sorry, we don't work on iPhones."

Absolutely. There was no shortage of Windows-centric corporate IT departments that swore that they'd never support Apple products.

Then iPhones started showing up in boardrooms, and they quickly changed their tune.

I brought my iPhone to work shortly after launch and showed it to curious coworkers. The head of IT for that particular multinational corp said it was garbage and would never be allowed on his network. "Apple is crapple" was his favorite phrase.

A few months later he got to peddle his anti-Apple mantra on the unemployment line.

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In fairness to the people who fired him, fanboy-ism has no place in the dispassionate decision making process of a professional. You have to have people around who are making decisions based on realities and not mantras or you're going to lose money.

If he wants a job where fanboy-ism can be helpful in climbing the ladder, he should try politics or something like that. Where all the money on the line belongs to other people. So no one really works to protect any of it.

Wow, are you seriously crowing about someone getting fired for not liking a particular company?

We shouldn’t crow about people being fired. But I’ve had that anti-Apple attitude leveraged at me in _so many meetings_. Having to smile and be polite to the face of people who keep referring to your choice of hardware as “fisher price” or “a toy” or “for sheep” is tiring and infuriating. I’m an engineer, and I made my decision with as much technical and design knowledge as anyone else

In my experience it’s also extremely one sided. I work with Windows, Android and Apple colleagues and the amount of times I hear “Xcode is crap haha”, “How can they live with such a shitty OS” etc. makes me wonder if all this is rooted in deep insecurity or something? Some Windows-centric people in senior management places I have worked will use me taking my iPhone out of my pocket as an opportunity to criticise the platform, my choice, and so on

I’m sure that some Apple users are quick to do the same, but in my experience they just tend to get on with their lives

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