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Why are people willing to sell their kids to defend the above companies?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

With Apple it's just sunk cost fallacy / Stockholm syndrome. Maybe you like apple products, that's fine. But when you're later confronted with almost £1000 for a monitor stand the mind needs to choose between i) I'm a mug and these people have clearly taken advantage of me or ii) no, this is a superior product, I'm a superior consumer, those poor chumps just can't see it.

There isn't really an in-between.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Apple does have a genuinely good eco system and a lot of good products.

The 1000 dollar monitor stand is not one of them though.

[–] boletus 1 points 2 months ago

The people willing to drop 1k on a monitor stand probably deserve to be ripped off

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