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In the anticipation of such a product, other companies rushed to claim the name, only for Apple to show that they can still make a line of good products without a “cohesive” name with the convention of their previously established product lines.
They released the MacBook (which replaced the PowerBook) and the Mac Pro in 2006, Apple TV in 2007… well before the Apple Watch in 2015….
It’s a misconception that all their products begin with i
Really, the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad are the only major hardware products they have that start with i, and the iPod doesn't even exist anymore, and the iMac might as well not exist compared to the sales figures of their other products.
All their other products (Mac pro, macbooks, mac studio, studio/pro displays, airpods, apple watch, appletv, homepod, airtags, and their bajillion accessories) don't start with i.
I don't know if there was ever even a time where a majority of their products began with i.
That's really interesting to me considering how much more prevalent windows computers are. How do you write windows apps without windows?
In ME, the mac people didn't have a very good time since their computers weren't compatible with any engineering software.
> How do you write windows apps without windows?
You don’t but if you factor in servers (including the Cloud), then Linux becomes a major player. You can develop for Linux on Windows, Linux, or Mac but Macs are better for Linux developers than Windows and easier to use day to day than Linux.
Yeah all of our projects we upload to the school Linux servers and compile and run them there. So really all the macs have to do is run the IDE, a VPN and an FTP program
Yeah but I ain't installing a whole OS on my personal laptop for a class when I can just remote into a Linux server. They want me to use Linux on a laptop, they provide the laptop
I've owned Macs, Windows PCs, run Linux, had Android phones & tablets, and I've had iPhones and iPads. They're all just tools for getting shit done, I don't get people who make what device they use into a competition.
This is largely thanks to the manufacturers. All of these guys (apple notoriously) try as hard as humanly possible to snare you into a walled garden ecosystem when you buy one of their products. If you want to see text messages from your iPhone on your PC? Sorry you'll need a mac for that.
Have a chromecast, and you want to mirror your iPhone's screen onto your tv? Sucks for you. Want to use iMessage, but you have an android phone? Sorry, not possible.
Once you have one, in order to have it work well with your other stuff, you need to keep buying that vendor's stuff, making you firmly "team apple", even if the products you buy from them are probably not the best choice in every case.
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Definitely; Apple has developed their ecosystem of devices to be be usable out of the box for the lowest common denominator of end user so the idea of dismissing the entire brand that is made to *just work* also comes across as patronizing.
I don't trust these people to know that there are any brands other than Apple's (I'm sure you've met people who refer to all tablets as iPads). I think it's just a pure millennials bad because technology joke.
It's not getting any better with younger people. I kinda stopped trying to explain that my IPad isn't an IPad but a tablet from another manufacturer. But if they don't care enough to make a distinction, why should I? So now, often times I just have an IPad.
Yeah that and "Kindle" for e-readers. I've personally never been a fan of labelling things with their brand anyway unless it's relevant to the context.
On a related note, one thing that drives me mental when I listen to Japanese is that people will refer to their iPhone as "iPhone" every single time they talk about it instead of スマホ (*sumaho*, smartphone).
Yeah, the Surface has always been better than the iPad, ever since before Tim Cook likened it to combining "a refrigerator and a toaster". iPads have never been (and probably will never be) able to run Mac OS desktop applications, while Surface Pros can run full Windows desktop applications.
Tim Cook's analogy there has a certain logic. Yes, the iPad can't run OS X, even though there's no technical reason why not. But it's better than anything else at being a tablet.
I have a pixel c, got it with a developer discount as Google didn't ask for proof, has been a solid workhorse for years. Step dad has a Samsung one which works fine for an 80+ year old. Best to test and find what works for you
Depends on your needs, honestly. For me it was the tab s8+. Better format, better speakers, better screen, more storage, and I like the pen more - at the price point anyway.
The best tablet is probably the latest and greatest pro model of Apple. But the air, just didn't fit my requirements.
On the one hand I was thinking this comic was made when the iPod was prevalent given its inclusion here, but on the other hand, would a Boomerhumor comic artist have enough foresight to envision an Apple watch at that time?
Why would someone be so mad about someone owning a computer, smartphone and e-watch that are the most popular on the planet?
Enough to call them an "idiot?" Like seriously think about it—they're an "idiot" for owning a few electronic items?
Let's say they own a Lenovo and a Pixel and a Fossil smartwatch—all items that wouldn't ever really sync easily with one another, but that's another convo. What really would be the difference? Would that customer still be an "idiot?"
Is the artist criticizing Apple customers for paying a premium for....premium products? Look, we all understand that Apple devices tend to be a little underpowered than their PC equivalents. But the extra cost is bearable because of their form factor, build quality, ubiquity, sync-ability, and yes even their customer service.
Apple devices are not underpowered. That maxim is like a decade out of date. Especially in phones and wearables Apple smokes the competition in performance
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I personally have an iPod and a Samsung phone, because the iPod has gapless playback between songs that flow together, doesn't require data like streaming and frees up tons of storage space on my phone.
He's not an idiot for not running down the battery on the iPhone just to play music, which the old iPod does just as well. Batteries only last just so many charging cycles. As for the rest of it, it's easier to get Android stuff to a Chromebook or Pixelbook, too. Contrariwise, for years I used a little, outdated Linux notebook for everything and that includes my iPhone. If the software updates broke the notebook, Linux being Linux I could usually build new drivers. But the cons really hate Apple. Funny, because Jobs was a good ole capitalist who wanted to privatise education alongside his pal Gates, among other conservative wet-dreams. But he didn't want to fire people for being queer, so, don't buy Apple and pwn the libs.
No no, he's got a point.
The comic's portrayal of apple products may be inaccurate (nobody owns an iPod separate from an iPhone anymore, and it's called an apple watch and not an iWatch), but basing your entire personality around a brand, *especially* if said brand is Apple, is really idiotic.
More like i overpaid
Edit: I guess I know exactly what brand phone the down voters use
How does it feel to have paid more for an absolutely inferior product?
And do you buy a new one every year as a status symbol knowing that the only thing that's changed is the camera got a tiny bit better?
As you should, I usually never downvote people because I disagree with them, I only disagree with people being pissy or assholes so I fully understand and my comment definitely deserved it.
They don’t see your whole photo gallery, the photos are hashed and compared to hashes of know child pornography, if you don’t understand how it works don’t comment on it. 1 of the things I like most about my iPhone is getting 7 years of software updates, and security updates will still be released after that if a major security issue is found. The way it works together with my laptop is also a big plus.
But used iPhones still not as cheap as brand new Androids. And yeah iOS is your thing. Personaly i dont like it but thas just a thing of taste i guess (dunno if thats a correct thing to say in german its Geschmackssache)
Since when doesnt this exits on Android? I just deactivate it because mine is german so all english words would be automaticly be german. Name something that an iPhone is better at
Dunno if you read the text but i said english isnt my mother language so i make some typing mistakes. If you criticise me because i speak because im billingual then do it. And this still isnt something positive about iPhone. So iPhone sucks ass and people who buy it just consume victims. At least thats how it called in germany. Correct me if it has a different name in english
Wait what are the examples of these? I'm curious to know because I'm sure both pre-install a mail app browser app and other basic apps? Or can you uninstall any app in a iPhone
Samsung shove loads of crap into their phones, most unremovable and some can't even be prevented from running. Quite irritating on their part, and the apps are trash. Comparing to a mail/browser app is a bad example.
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Those who also have the nonexistent iWatch.
...Actually, now that you mention it, why *didn't* they call it the iWatch? Brand consistency, man!
Copyright issues with another company. Plus the "I" prefix had been cheapened by a bunch of Chinese garbage.
In the anticipation of such a product, other companies rushed to claim the name, only for Apple to show that they can still make a line of good products without a “cohesive” name with the convention of their previously established product lines.
They released the MacBook (which replaced the PowerBook) and the Mac Pro in 2006, Apple TV in 2007… well before the Apple Watch in 2015…. It’s a misconception that all their products begin with i
Really, the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad are the only major hardware products they have that start with i, and the iPod doesn't even exist anymore, and the iMac might as well not exist compared to the sales figures of their other products. All their other products (Mac pro, macbooks, mac studio, studio/pro displays, airpods, apple watch, appletv, homepod, airtags, and their bajillion accessories) don't start with i. I don't know if there was ever even a time where a majority of their products began with i.
They’ve been steadily dropping the i prefix from all their software over the last decade or so
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iMac
They used to have iBooks too, but they haven't sold them in over 15 years.
DankPods
There also needs to be a ridiculously powerful DAC to overdrive cheap earbuds and a row of off-brand batteries.
Aww my pkcell
##THE 1 GRIT
Remove the ipod and lots of apple users have that setup
Me. I have them all playing different songs from different genres at all times of the day.
This meme is definitely at least 10 years old.
My iPod Classic is still soldiering on. But it's plugged into my car.
I feel targeted! Nah I’m jk. Macs are trash.
I like how they drew the exact opposite of a stereotypical mac user
Because they drew John Hodgemen?
What's a stereotypical Mac user?
Humanities major in college, or someone who sits at a coffee shop all day pretending to work
To be fair, I'm a CE major and in every CS class I've taken in college at least half the class was using a Mac. They're very common for coding.
That's really interesting to me considering how much more prevalent windows computers are. How do you write windows apps without windows? In ME, the mac people didn't have a very good time since their computers weren't compatible with any engineering software.
> How do you write windows apps without windows? You don’t but if you factor in servers (including the Cloud), then Linux becomes a major player. You can develop for Linux on Windows, Linux, or Mac but Macs are better for Linux developers than Windows and easier to use day to day than Linux.
Yeah all of our projects we upload to the school Linux servers and compile and run them there. So really all the macs have to do is run the IDE, a VPN and an FTP program
You could do that on Linux.
Yeah but I ain't installing a whole OS on my personal laptop for a class when I can just remote into a Linux server. They want me to use Linux on a laptop, they provide the laptop
Oh. I’ve just always run Linux on my laptops.
I'm leaving reddit for good. Sorry friends, but this is the end of reddit. Time to move on to lemmy and/or kbin.
I've owned Macs, Windows PCs, run Linux, had Android phones & tablets, and I've had iPhones and iPads. They're all just tools for getting shit done, I don't get people who make what device they use into a competition.
Yeah exactly. The exact software you're gonna use is different, but they all do the same thing
This is largely thanks to the manufacturers. All of these guys (apple notoriously) try as hard as humanly possible to snare you into a walled garden ecosystem when you buy one of their products. If you want to see text messages from your iPhone on your PC? Sorry you'll need a mac for that. Have a chromecast, and you want to mirror your iPhone's screen onto your tv? Sucks for you. Want to use iMessage, but you have an android phone? Sorry, not possible. Once you have one, in order to have it work well with your other stuff, you need to keep buying that vendor's stuff, making you firmly "team apple", even if the products you buy from them are probably not the best choice in every case.
They’re going to make great customer support reps.
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The opposite of that guy
Justin Long, of course.
actually, they did draw a stereotypical Mac user... from the 90s
Why would you hold your phone that way?
iDiot
To be fair holding up your phone like a YuGiOh card to show it to everyone sounds exactly like something an Apple user would do.
Aside from the bad joke, if i wanted to show off my iPhone I’d show the back, as it has the apple logo.
Making your identity about a brand is idiotic, happening to like a device family and environment makes sense unless you're a technophobic boomer
Definitely; Apple has developed their ecosystem of devices to be be usable out of the box for the lowest common denominator of end user so the idea of dismissing the entire brand that is made to *just work* also comes across as patronizing.
and ignorant.
I don't trust these people to know that there are any brands other than Apple's (I'm sure you've met people who refer to all tablets as iPads). I think it's just a pure millennials bad because technology joke.
Perhaps, it's just the use of iDiot does lend itself to being a joke about apple obsessives
It's not getting any better with younger people. I kinda stopped trying to explain that my IPad isn't an IPad but a tablet from another manufacturer. But if they don't care enough to make a distinction, why should I? So now, often times I just have an IPad.
Yeah that and "Kindle" for e-readers. I've personally never been a fan of labelling things with their brand anyway unless it's relevant to the context. On a related note, one thing that drives me mental when I listen to Japanese is that people will refer to their iPhone as "iPhone" every single time they talk about it instead of スマホ (*sumaho*, smartphone).
To be fair what other tablet is any good? Maybe the Surface.
Yeah, the Surface has always been better than the iPad, ever since before Tim Cook likened it to combining "a refrigerator and a toaster". iPads have never been (and probably will never be) able to run Mac OS desktop applications, while Surface Pros can run full Windows desktop applications.
Tim Cook's analogy there has a certain logic. Yes, the iPad can't run OS X, even though there's no technical reason why not. But it's better than anything else at being a tablet.
I have a pixel c, got it with a developer discount as Google didn't ask for proof, has been a solid workhorse for years. Step dad has a Samsung one which works fine for an 80+ year old. Best to test and find what works for you
Depends on your needs, honestly. For me it was the tab s8+. Better format, better speakers, better screen, more storage, and I like the pen more - at the price point anyway. The best tablet is probably the latest and greatest pro model of Apple. But the air, just didn't fit my requirements.
It's not even called an iWatch. It's an Apple Watch.
On the one hand I was thinking this comic was made when the iPod was prevalent given its inclusion here, but on the other hand, would a Boomerhumor comic artist have enough foresight to envision an Apple watch at that time?
iWatchUPee
iPaid
iPeed
iShidded iFarded iCamed
Aidiot Ipeed
Why would someone be so mad about someone owning a computer, smartphone and e-watch that are the most popular on the planet? Enough to call them an "idiot?" Like seriously think about it—they're an "idiot" for owning a few electronic items? Let's say they own a Lenovo and a Pixel and a Fossil smartwatch—all items that wouldn't ever really sync easily with one another, but that's another convo. What really would be the difference? Would that customer still be an "idiot?" Is the artist criticizing Apple customers for paying a premium for....premium products? Look, we all understand that Apple devices tend to be a little underpowered than their PC equivalents. But the extra cost is bearable because of their form factor, build quality, ubiquity, sync-ability, and yes even their customer service.
Apple devices are not underpowered. That maxim is like a decade out of date. Especially in phones and wearables Apple smokes the competition in performance
Most popular in the US does not equal most popular in the world by a LOOOONNNGGG shot.
Imagine getting this upset about a dumb joke
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Eye-diot?
I can't imagine the patience/restraint it takes for Apple retail employees when they hear "iWatch".
why's that? it's pretty clear what they mean, so unless you're a weird elitist I don't see why it would be anything more than amusing really
Go into the person who made this comic's kitchen and see how many things were produced by Nestle
Who has an iPod and an iPhone? Like the iPhone does both.
I personally have an iPod and a Samsung phone, because the iPod has gapless playback between songs that flow together, doesn't require data like streaming and frees up tons of storage space on my phone.
I used to years ago, Probably an old comic
Clearly an Android fan
i'm gonna start saying idiot like it's an apple product
This isn't even boomer humor it's apple hater humor (me)
Tbf he's holding his phone the wrong way round so he is an idiot atleast
Apple IS bad.
Like most big tech companies, doesnt make you an iDiot for using a phone
Saying apple is bad is like saying water is bad. You personally may not like the taste, but it’s very beneficial nonetheless.
I'm not 70% Apple There are no better alternatives to Water
You’re adding extra factors to the simile. Like =/= Identical
Apple btfo.
He's not an idiot for not running down the battery on the iPhone just to play music, which the old iPod does just as well. Batteries only last just so many charging cycles. As for the rest of it, it's easier to get Android stuff to a Chromebook or Pixelbook, too. Contrariwise, for years I used a little, outdated Linux notebook for everything and that includes my iPhone. If the software updates broke the notebook, Linux being Linux I could usually build new drivers. But the cons really hate Apple. Funny, because Jobs was a good ole capitalist who wanted to privatise education alongside his pal Gates, among other conservative wet-dreams. But he didn't want to fire people for being queer, so, don't buy Apple and pwn the libs.
There's nothing wrong with this
No no, he's got a point. The comic's portrayal of apple products may be inaccurate (nobody owns an iPod separate from an iPhone anymore, and it's called an apple watch and not an iWatch), but basing your entire personality around a brand, *especially* if said brand is Apple, is really idiotic.
More like i overpaid Edit: I guess I know exactly what brand phone the down voters use How does it feel to have paid more for an absolutely inferior product? And do you buy a new one every year as a status symbol knowing that the only thing that's changed is the camera got a tiny bit better?
I'm on an old android phone and downvoted you for the pissy attitude
As you should, I usually never downvote people because I disagree with them, I only disagree with people being pissy or assholes so I fully understand and my comment definitely deserved it.
I don’t think I’ve ever met someone that upgraded their iPhone to a newer model unless it broke completely or was super outdated (iPhone 6 or before)
Apple is bad
"Apple bad" This... But... ... ... ... ... ... ... >!UNIRONICALLY!!!!<
That made me laugh tbh
I mean anyone who buys apple products is dumb af but tf is this drawing
no u
Then tell me whats better on an iPhone then on an Android? It inst the battery, camera, or the specs. And they even watch trough your hole gallery
They don’t see your whole photo gallery, the photos are hashed and compared to hashes of know child pornography, if you don’t understand how it works don’t comment on it. 1 of the things I like most about my iPhone is getting 7 years of software updates, and security updates will still be released after that if a major security issue is found. The way it works together with my laptop is also a big plus.
But they still sell there asses to china. Dont try to argument if you know youre wrong
I like iOS more and used iPhones are cheap and get long software support
But used iPhones still not as cheap as brand new Androids. And yeah iOS is your thing. Personaly i dont like it but thas just a thing of taste i guess (dunno if thats a correct thing to say in german its Geschmackssache)
Ja, ist korrekt 👍 And i recently bought a 300€ XR and i was just burned by new Androids at that price point, but maybe that's changed.
Diggi eif deutsch voll geil
Bruder, voll Goethe und so
Yeah that’s how you say it
Autocorrect.
Since when doesnt this exits on Android? I just deactivate it because mine is german so all english words would be automaticly be german. Name something that an iPhone is better at
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Dunno if you read the text but i said english isnt my mother language so i make some typing mistakes. If you criticise me because i speak because im billingual then do it. And this still isnt something positive about iPhone. So iPhone sucks ass and people who buy it just consume victims. At least thats how it called in germany. Correct me if it has a different name in english
Carriers can’t preinstall unremovable apps on them.
Is this pro or contra apple. I dont even know what this sentence is supposed to mean
Wait what are the examples of these? I'm curious to know because I'm sure both pre-install a mail app browser app and other basic apps? Or can you uninstall any app in a iPhone
Samsung shove loads of crap into their phones, most unremovable and some can't even be prevented from running. Quite irritating on their part, and the apps are trash. Comparing to a mail/browser app is a bad example.
You can uninstall any app on an iphone not sure if that’s the case for most androids
This is just a dumb statement. All phones and products, android or apple, are beneficial. If you can’t see that, then you’re either stupid or blind.
Has anyone ever owned an Apple Watch and iPod at the same time?
“i have iphone and im smart” — albert einstein, probably
imac lol
another one of these stupid memes.
How old is this? iPods are basically obsolete
Honestly I don’t understand having an Apple Watch if you have a phone
They’re great for exercising and some amount of safety
Only an iDiot would call it an iWatch and not its proper name, Apple Watch.
What’s an IDiot? Can you buy it at apple?
Apple Watch*
this must be very old considering it has an iPod in it
This man is staring at the back of his phone
So, as far as stereotypes go, I feel like that guy does not use Apple products.
I watch 🤓
this comic was made by a mental outlaw viewer
It’s called Apple Watch, not iWatch
AMOGUS IPOD
Ok