[helpPeople]

I have refused as well.

My users and I lose by buying Apple products.

I weep that Apple has entrenched themselves into the tech ecosystem. They take advantage of the least educated users fear and outright lie about security and product quality.

Is there anything we can do?

[IAmEveryone]

> They take advantage of the least educated users

If you actually want to convince people, it might help not to start from the assumption of them being stupid.

Walk around at a physics conference, Google office, Harvard or MIT campus, and you'll see more MacBooks than any other brand. The notion of these users universally being clueless defies logic.

[smabie]

To be fair, all the examples you mentioned (except Google maybe) aren’t exactly bastions or people who care about software quality. I used to work as a bioinformatician (whatever that means) at Harvard Med and the people there weren’t exactly that interested in the quality of their OS. Sure they could use ssh or whatever and code up some god awful C++ or Python, but technology wasn’t exactly a topic they were passionate about.

[helpPeople]

Plenty of people fall for marketing.

I'm not sure how that is relevant.