Apple Macintosh/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[The Band Minus the Face]]: Apple without Steve Jobs.

* [[Broken Base]]: People who use Macs for "creative professional" applications like graphic design and video editing, versus "consumer" users of the iPhone, iPad, etc. Some professional users feel that Apple is increasingly targeting the latter at the expense of the former, citing Final Cut Pro X and the stagnation of the Mac Pro line.

*** That's an oversimplification, stemming mostly from the misunderstanding o the two companies' goals and policies. Microsoft is first and foremost a software company, and its business is selling operating systems for the millions of the infinitely varied PCs,and the sheer ''size'' of the market makes Microsoft's relationships with its clients an extremely distant and impersonal. Microsoft ''couldn't'' personally care for all its clients even if it wanted. Apple, on the other hand, is a hardware company with a strict control over any aspect of its products. This allowed Apple to create the genuinely well-crafted assemblies of hardware and software, and, due to its much lower market share, make its client think that it cares for each of them, thus inspiring a great personal loyalty.

** The same people who like to decry the Mac as just a PC in a fancy case tend to be the same people who drool over case mods.

* [[Face of the Band]]: Steve Jobs, especially since his return to Apple; also, Susan Kare, graphic designer extraordinaire, who created much of the interface art (icons and such) for the Mac and went on to do similar work for several other companies.

* [[Fan Dumb]]: Apple's (former?) bohemian image and association with the creative professions has led to a great many Mac users who buy their systems solely for the image of it. Not to mention there's also their perceived snobbish user-base among the computer community and in [[Computer Wars]]. Mac power users are known to [[Stop Being Stereotypical|resent such people]] as giving the entire platform a bad image.

* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: When something goes wrong on PowerPC era Macs (did you botch up during the upgrade?). You either get a [[Scare Chord|DUN-DUN-DUNNNNN]], a car crash, glass breaking, or most scary of all, the sound of an explosion. Usually accompanied by a Sad Mac.

** Older Macs, such as the LC line, accompany Sad Macs with [[Nightmare Fuel|a creepy set of chimes]] known as the [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Chimes of Doom]].

* [[Older Than They Think]]: Despite complaints from Apple fans of Microsoft being copycats, it should be noted that Apple did not invent the first PC or GUI either.

** Mac OS X is not the first [[UNIX]]-based operating system for the Mac. That honor goes to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX A/UX], released in 1988.

* [[Sacred Cow]]: The Mac has gotten this treatment (and arguably still does) back in the day in that any sort of criticism of the Mac (or simply preferring Windows over Mac) is bound to get you burned to a crisp. This is less frequent today due to the resurgence of Apple as well as some of the controversies Apple has been involved in as a new-found [[Mega Corp]] and all, but you can still find some very [[Defensive Fans]] in some areas.

** And yet their targeting the "Moron" demographic was what allowed them to get so big in the first place...make that of what you will.

 

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