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The reality is somewhere between "I buy from the company whose product or service suits me best at the time" and "I buy from the company whose product or service that is cheapest" so I went for "I purchase from a variety of companies but specifically avoid 1 or more companies" because I assumed (correctly) that you'd put that in to count how many people avoid Apple.
I do avoid Apple, but mostly because I cannot get on with their products. My daughter has a second hand iPod which I have found incredibly frustrating trying to get the old stuff off and new stuff on. My wife has had a number of iPhones and again when I've had to do things for her (cos she cant) it has not been a pleasurable experience.
WTF can't I just plug the damn thing into a computer and drag everything I am interested in between the two? Why do they have to be tied to an install of bloody iTunes and if you try to use a different computer you have to lose everything already on the thing to put more stuff on.
I also find navigating around an iPhone very difficult and counter-intuitive. Obviously it was the same for an iPad when I've had a play with one of those in a shop.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Is that really a surprise? These things ware not made with you in mind. You probably expect a certain degree of freedom to organize things on those devices which they can't and don't want to grant you. You may know what you are doing, but the devices were made for those who do not. That's probably also the reason why I'm so unimpressed by the phones and tablets.
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And they have to call it iTunes... could have chosen a better name(misleading) or used a different application altogether. Bunch of cheapies if you ask me. (coming from someone that owns a iPhone, and who thinks its awesome)
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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modified 9-Oct-12 3:36am.
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Company X is great in A, B and C but don't provide any tech in D.
Company Y is said to currently be the best in D.
Company Z is said to consistantly be the best in D.
And then there is: All my products is from company XX and I really reap the benifits because of it.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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BACON & Co., CListCtrl and Partners and Salma Hayek GmbH!
Now that we've got that out of the way, let's get serious 
I used to buy my sound devices from Creative...
Until I had an expensive mp3 player, an expensive sound card and an expensive 7.1 dolby surround system. This was in a time that each of those items cost a couple of month salaries for me.
Anyway, when Windows Vista came out my sound card wasn't supported by the OS anymore and Creative did not bother to bring out any good patches. I did not make the switch to Vista at the time because of my soundcard... After a while my mp3 player broke down, of course right after warranty wore off. After a few years my incredibly expensive dolby surround system broke down and no one could fix it. My soundcard broke down a few weeks ago. I now have a built in soundcard, logitech speakers and an iPod. Never again will I stick to one company.
That said, Microsoft kind of has me in a bind. Since it's my job to work with Microsoft software that's usually the software I work with (Windows, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Outlook, Office...). Although I do use Gmail, OpenOffice and Chrome at home too (never IE!)
It's an OO world.
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Naerling wrote: Anyway, when Windows Vista came out my sound card wasn't supported by the OS anymore and Creative did not bother to bring out any good patches.
The irony here is that it was Creatives godawful XP drivers that forced MS to completely rework the audio subsystem from kernel to usermode so that buggy drivers could no longer trigger a BSOD which resulted in the massive changes that made getting new drivers for old sound cards in vista so difficult.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My motivation, or rather, inspiration, was a posting I made regarding my joy at joining the LTE enabled crowd[^]. It, predictably, devolved into an Apple bashing thread which started me thinking about us smart, savvy, experimental, cynical, independent thinking developers who see through marketing's trappings and cannot be coerced like the consumer sheep at large.
Except it seems we are, and I wonder if, in fact, we're more likely to be subject to the marketing ploys - be they overt, subtle, or an aspect of networks such as open-source proponents - than the average person.
One of the core traits of a developer is that We Know Better. We've lived it, we've written it, we've debugged it, and even if we haven't we know pretty much what's possible, what's hard, and what mistakes simply should not be made, and we tend to go hard on companies that don't live up to the expectations we set ourselves. However, we also have a tendency to stick with what we know because of the pain we went through to gain the knowledge we know. Does that tendency to stick with what we can rely on translate to what we buy? Or does our tendency to slam those who don't live up to our expectations mean we're extremely fickle with our loyalty?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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In a world where we are shifting towards commoditization of everything, loyalties become the first victim, the marketing campaigns still want to impress upon us the importance and the perils of switching and want us to be locked in to their products, but frankly it is becoming interchangeable.
"Big companies" are promoting features which will drive lock downs to their products, in hopes of keeping the future revenue, and it is this which we "developers/mentors/consultants" must be aware of and help defend against, since ultimately it is not in the best interest and our loyalties should be to the companies we work for and not the vendors.
A case in point : I was very inclined to get a Mac Air mostly because of it's beautiful design and lack of weight, but having worked with a friends device a couple of hours I found out it does not have a "delete key" which is a must for any developer/writer and is insane.
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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Now we know who voted for "I defend to death the one company from which I buy stuff"! 
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We are humans, and humans inherently, dislike change.
I usually only change, when I have to or am forced to. If Dell is making crap computers for the last two years, and I need a new computer, I "have" to go with another computer, perhaps Asus. I don't like it, because it is change, but in the end, change is usually good.
My 2 cents.
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I think it is like hypnotism, if you are as thick as two short planks you cannot be hypnotised, nothing to work with. It is also an accepted fact that it is easier to sell to an intelligent person than a halfwit, more to work with.
And we all know a little knowledge is dangerous, IMHO it is this category that can be marketed to most successfully.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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