It's not just that. When Apple adopts a trend or implement a modern feature/flow that they are not the first to, like flat UIs, wearables, VR, etc they do put in earnest effort to polish and distinguish their experience compared to others. Something their competitors don't put a ton of weight in. This pushes people in general to believe that the "Apple way" is somewhat better just because it's different or at least has some mysterious merit. iPeople even more so tan the general public.

Yeah this is usually how it goes, like with fingerprint unlock. But flat design was well-established outside of Apple before.

that's what iPeople-haters like to say. people panned the trashcan pro. people panned the butterfly keyboard. people panned the removal of sd card reader from laptops. people call out apple, but that doesn't fit the iPeople-haters narrative, so it's best to just ignore it

> people panned the trashcan pro. people panned the butterfly keyboard. people panned the removal of sd card reader from laptops.

Those things all sucked and deserved to be panned, but we all remember plenty of people defending them too.

Actually. The charge port for the mouse on the bottom is genius. In this essay I will.....

The DRM on the Lightning charging cable ensures your mouse is secure from unauthorized power...

"I suppose you still want a floppy drive too" and then they re-added the SD card and HDMI

Ah, overly broad stereotypes, you totally can't go wrong with them. May they never change

I read a lot of Apple blogs and they all complain about Apple all the time. They like Apple products, but they aren't stupid. For example, nobody thinks that Siri is a 4D chess move, everyone knows that Siri sucks.