Steve Jobs was their most shrewd pied piper
I don't care for marketers, manipulators, or people who were told by engineers of a product defect then chose to let the defect out and subsequently scream at customers. ("YOU'RE HOLDING IT WRONG"). The myth of Jobs is overbloated; the man himself was a leech and a jerk. Even in college days, he dropped out but leeched on campus to 'cut cost'.
Apple, under his reign, gave the middle finger to the free market (or supply-side market) by taking tons of corporate welfare and tax breaks, while offshoring (and using every shallow excuse in the book to half-bakedly defend his personal greed.)
I own Apple products. I will not continue to buy Apple products. A $2000 iMac should not burn the screen after 2 years due to poor cooling design. A $2000 MacBook should not have thermal paste poorly applied and overheat to death. I'm not alone in having these issues, and the internet has a lot of people and websites talking about poor design and other issues. Right down to warped screws and puddles of grease under fans. They may be sold as "luxury" devices, but it's like having the chassis of a Lexus but the engine and build quality of a Yugo (or Chevy, who cares... purported high-end vs low-end arguments are a dime per dozen...)
