Originally posted by GrayHam:
I'm constantly amazed I am able to function in my day-to-day life without owning a single Apple product.
Oh. Well, except for the Apple Shuffle I used for a week before the POS went tits-up on me.
The $10 refurbished Rio I replaced it with has lasted me for three years.
Other than that, wow. How do I manage?
I too could live my life without an Apple product, but I choose not to, because when comparing competing products, the Apple one is almost always the one more integrated, better thought out, more stylish, etc. Apple products sell not because there is a core group of people that just thing everything from Apple is perfect (I'm sure there are more Anti-Apple people just because it's made by Apple), but because Apple is very good at designing a product that is easy for the masses to use and fits a need that may not have existed before, desktop publishing, GUI'ed OS, MP3 player, etc.
Continue your Apple free lifestyle, we're all happy for you.