I want to start out with the question of whether or not anyone has a similar story as this. Going from hatred to love for a company, products, show, book, whatever it may be. I think these are interesting stories to hear, and different than the ever present why I left x phone for y phone threads floating about. Now for my story,
Why do some people hate companies and their products? And why do so many of those people not give that company or their products a fair chance? I was one of those people and I still don?t know the answer to those questions. I use to absolutely loathe Apple, the name brought a bitter taste to my mouth. Why? Because I couldn?t right click on a Mac. Yep, it was that simple. I loathed Apple and all their products because I couldn?t right click on a Mac.
I was raised on Microsoft from the good old days of MSDOS and Doom. I remember those days fondly. Still to this day I use a Windows laptop thought I plan on getting a MacBook Pro soon. The first time I used a Mac was in high school, I was taking a graphic design class and we used Mac?s for the class. As someone who grew up on Windows I was intimate with the ability to right click to bring up options. This is not present on Mac?s, though it is a simple keyboard button away. Despite overall liking the layout and being able to play with the icon dock, that right click disappearance fostered a long time hatred of all things Apple. Ridiculous.
Then one day Steve Jobs passed away. I knew the name, I knew his company, he was being heralded as one of the greatest innovators of our time and the iPhone was the phone to have. As a person who has always claimed to love technology and mobile technology in particular, I felt I owed it to the late Steve Jobs to at least try an iPhone. I?d played a little with some at cell provider stores, I loved the keyboard, and it was the be all end all of phones, the social status icon of phones. I found an 8GB iPhone 4 on Craigslist for a cheap price, brand new in box.
I couldn?t believe I finally paid for a product and contributed to a company I had so long loathed. But there it was, in my hand, and it felt spectacular. It felt like quality, the screen was amazingly responsive, and my typing errors drastically reduced. I loved it. I didn?t want to admit it, one of my coworkers always had to rub it in my face that the iPhone was awesome. He knew I loved it, but I couldn?t admit it. Though not long after my love of Android and BlackBerry kicked in and I had to buy one of each and play with all three devices. The iPhone won in the contest of which phone would be my platform of choice.
The iPhone was everything I felt I wanted in a phone, minus a few things I liked about the competition, but it was the closest I would ever get to an ideal phone. I was always on it, always doing something, it was a powerhouse in my current regimen. There was never anything I wanted to be able to do that I couldn?t do with it. It went even farther than that when I bought the iPhone 5 on release day. The iPhone 5 is the record holder for the longest time period I?ve ever owned a phone, at a whopping thirteen months. I had never owned a single phone for than six months at a time prior to the iPhone 5. This is a testament to how much I enjoy the platform, how much I do with it, and how relevant it is ever a year after release.
I have since taken it even a step further into the previously shadowland of Apple products. I recently purchased an iPad Mini. And now I only use my laptop for a couple work documents and writing, and writing only because I haven?t gotten keyboard for my iPad yet. The work documents need to be done on Windows because of the code difference between the documents on Excel versus Numbers, otherwise I would do it all from my iPhone or iPad. Now for me the next logical step is to get a MacBook Pro and fully integrate myself into the Apple ecosystem. I will probably still have my Windows laptop for the work documents, but other than that I will be using Apple products. I have chosen to go for the MacBook Pro over the Air simply because I want to learn to write iOS apps. I?ve spent a good part of my life despising a company and set of products that turned out to be exactly what I was looking for the whole time. Which is what prompts my original questions, why would do some people hate companies and products and not give them a proper chance? It?s simply beyond ridiculous.
Why do some people hate companies and their products? And why do so many of those people not give that company or their products a fair chance? I was one of those people and I still don?t know the answer to those questions. I use to absolutely loathe Apple, the name brought a bitter taste to my mouth. Why? Because I couldn?t right click on a Mac. Yep, it was that simple. I loathed Apple and all their products because I couldn?t right click on a Mac.
I was raised on Microsoft from the good old days of MSDOS and Doom. I remember those days fondly. Still to this day I use a Windows laptop thought I plan on getting a MacBook Pro soon. The first time I used a Mac was in high school, I was taking a graphic design class and we used Mac?s for the class. As someone who grew up on Windows I was intimate with the ability to right click to bring up options. This is not present on Mac?s, though it is a simple keyboard button away. Despite overall liking the layout and being able to play with the icon dock, that right click disappearance fostered a long time hatred of all things Apple. Ridiculous.
Then one day Steve Jobs passed away. I knew the name, I knew his company, he was being heralded as one of the greatest innovators of our time and the iPhone was the phone to have. As a person who has always claimed to love technology and mobile technology in particular, I felt I owed it to the late Steve Jobs to at least try an iPhone. I?d played a little with some at cell provider stores, I loved the keyboard, and it was the be all end all of phones, the social status icon of phones. I found an 8GB iPhone 4 on Craigslist for a cheap price, brand new in box.
I couldn?t believe I finally paid for a product and contributed to a company I had so long loathed. But there it was, in my hand, and it felt spectacular. It felt like quality, the screen was amazingly responsive, and my typing errors drastically reduced. I loved it. I didn?t want to admit it, one of my coworkers always had to rub it in my face that the iPhone was awesome. He knew I loved it, but I couldn?t admit it. Though not long after my love of Android and BlackBerry kicked in and I had to buy one of each and play with all three devices. The iPhone won in the contest of which phone would be my platform of choice.
The iPhone was everything I felt I wanted in a phone, minus a few things I liked about the competition, but it was the closest I would ever get to an ideal phone. I was always on it, always doing something, it was a powerhouse in my current regimen. There was never anything I wanted to be able to do that I couldn?t do with it. It went even farther than that when I bought the iPhone 5 on release day. The iPhone 5 is the record holder for the longest time period I?ve ever owned a phone, at a whopping thirteen months. I had never owned a single phone for than six months at a time prior to the iPhone 5. This is a testament to how much I enjoy the platform, how much I do with it, and how relevant it is ever a year after release.
I have since taken it even a step further into the previously shadowland of Apple products. I recently purchased an iPad Mini. And now I only use my laptop for a couple work documents and writing, and writing only because I haven?t gotten keyboard for my iPad yet. The work documents need to be done on Windows because of the code difference between the documents on Excel versus Numbers, otherwise I would do it all from my iPhone or iPad. Now for me the next logical step is to get a MacBook Pro and fully integrate myself into the Apple ecosystem. I will probably still have my Windows laptop for the work documents, but other than that I will be using Apple products. I have chosen to go for the MacBook Pro over the Air simply because I want to learn to write iOS apps. I?ve spent a good part of my life despising a company and set of products that turned out to be exactly what I was looking for the whole time. Which is what prompts my original questions, why would do some people hate companies and products and not give them a proper chance? It?s simply beyond ridiculous.
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