I dont often see stickers on cars but when I do, one of them is the apple logo. What is it for?
Edit: I’m in Germany in case that’s relevant
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You don’t often see stickers on cars?
Are you sure it isn’t the logo of the National Education Association? That is the largest teacher’s Union in the US.
Also there are many regional and local. Teachers organizations that will use a stylization of an apple as their logo.
Stickers on cars are not really common in many countries.
Besides the occasional “child on board” or local soccer club sticker, they are e.g. almost nonexistant here in Germany.
But Apple stickers *have* been a thing that deviated from that rule, so it stood out, a few years ago.Don’t forget the ubiquitous Sylt sticker.
Yes, sure, the classic is also still around!
I took me quite some time until I figured out what it was supposed to be.
For a long time I actually thought it to be something political, as it looked a lot like the scar on Gorbachev’s head… 😆
Who said that they are from US?
Good point.
OP where are you from.
They mentioned they are German.
Where?
In Germany.
But what native language?
Swahili
That is correct!
Poor people are confused and think affording overpriced tech means they are wealthy. But they’re just slightly less poor.
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This sounds like what Fox News programs it’s viewers to think of poor people
I think people get these stickers for free when they purchase an Apple product, but don’t know where to put it, so they wind up putting it on their car.
Because company car and corporate branding… I don’t even work for them but they are a customer/supplier.
Back in the nineties I was told off that Windows users are fanatical to their OS by a girl with one single sticker on her bicycle and it was the Apple logo.
We worked in the same music studio with exclusively Apple computers and my money job was administration of an office with mixed Windows and Linux and BSD environment.
I never had problems with either OS but I did have problems with Apple hardware being 2-3x the price for performance back in the days when performance mattered.
I dunno if she mistook some single mouse button banter as something personal or what. Needless to say she didn’t take it well when I laughed it off and told her I don’t decorate anything with neither penguins or the Windows logo.
My wife uses mac and gets a lot of these stickers.
I put them on everything because I find it silly: my Thinkpad, my Nintendo Switch, the cat toilet…
Is the cat toilet a litter box, or an actual toilet?
Toilet made out of cats.
Real question being asked here.
Depends on your tolerance for stretched definitions, but it’s one of those covered litterboxes a door.
I used to stick them on servers and firewalls at work, I thought it was funny.
Likewise, back when I built my first big pants real PC out of actual new components and not just hand-me-down bullshit cannibalized from decommissioned office stuff, I put the plethora of stickers that came with everything on the little rear triangle windows on my car. As if they were riceboy components instead, which in a way I suppose they were. Many of them were those textured stamped aluminum ones and they survived for quite a long time.
Surely at least one confused tuner saw this and puzzled over what the hell G.Skill and MSI “car parts” were supposed to do.
Here’s another sign of the times: Out of all the parts for my current rig, only two of them came with stickers. What a rip-off. My processor came with an AMD sticker (just a cheap vinyl one this time) and my motherboard came with an Aorus sticker which is at least textured metal. I stuck both of them to the inside of the front door on my case.
An Apple sticker on a Thinkpad? Please, tell me you also installed Linux on it. That would be peak irony, right there.
Ya, it’s a work laptop so cut the disk in half and installed Pop!OS Linux on one half and kept Windows just in case work needed it.
Then I needed GUIX OS and installed it over the Windows partition, so it’s a dualboot Linux/Linux now.
Maybe I should put two Apple stickers on it.
Two stickers in the 69 orientation. It’s legally required at this point.
I had an HP laptop that was silver in color and looked similar to a macbook. I put an Apple sticker on the HP logo and had Arch running on it.
LOL.
This is the way.
I used to have a job processing used laptops from offices and you would not believe how many people put Apple stickers on Thinkpads and other non-Apple products. I guess for a lot of them it’s like saying, “I’d rather be using a Mac,” or it was just to be silly, I have no idea.
I think it’s just for the giggles.
Marketing. They give you a decent quality sticker with most of their products, which becomes free advertising
And the person who made that article even included a photo of an Apple sticker on their own car!
Stickers like that don’t bother me much, as people often get them for free and naturally sometimes feel an urge to stick them on something.
What blows my mind are the douchebags who pay a premium to buy some t-shirt or cap that’s essentially a walking billboard for fashion brands.
Consumerism, Fanboyism and a feeling of superiority. In Germany Apple had a much smaller market share than in the US and people liked to show off that they can afford a Mac.
In Germany Apple had a much smaller market share than in the US
That’s true nearly everywhere, isn’t it? Just talking about mobile OS saturation, the iPhone is mostly an American phenomenon AFAIK. Android market share globally is like 75%+, unbeknownst to many Apple users in the US apparently.
Japan as well
There was an open sourced culture among Apple users in the mid 90s, they had a lot of free tools for teaching, so it became a brand for artists and teachers. MS was more seen as a business brand.
People who
stick theApplelogo on their car: Why?FTFY.
Wow what a fresh take
About as fresh as that worm pulp in a candy red shell, so 🤷🏼♂️
Apple ‽
Apple‽FTFY.
I found a rainbows one from the 90s so I put it on because it was cool and retro and I love rainbows.
Stupid!
I think that it’s pride in staying with a company that weakened their batteries from afar so they would spend more of their hard-earned cash on a new apple device. Weird values.
They’re free and where else would they stick them? On their macbooks?
