What is it about issues like this that cause people (who generally have little direct financial stake) to take sides so heatedly and emotionally? It's bizarre, isn't it?
I know I at least always have a hard time deciding between top competing products. I anguished over the decision between iPhone and Android, but it was because of the different features represented, not any cultural thing. And I still readily recommend the iPhone to most people.
Is it pure tribalism? I heard John Siracusa talk at length in one of the early episodes of the Hypercritical podcast about Mac people having a sort of complex after watching the platform that they saw as clearly superior get crushed by Microsoft. But I see this manifest on both sides, and the emotional investment just seems really outlandish and disproportionate.
I know I at least always have a hard time deciding between top competing products. I anguished over the decision between iPhone and Android, but it was because of the different features represented, not any cultural thing. And I still readily recommend the iPhone to most people.
Is it pure tribalism? I heard John Siracusa talk at length in one of the early episodes of the Hypercritical podcast about Mac people having a sort of complex after watching the platform that they saw as clearly superior get crushed by Microsoft. But I see this manifest on both sides, and the emotional investment just seems really outlandish and disproportionate.