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Outliers in a Country's Tech E(...) 04/20/26(Mon)23:08:16 No.108649897

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Outliers in a Country's Tech Ecosystem Anonymous 04/20/26(Mon)23:08:16 No.108649897

I only just now realized that I've gone my entire life (of 21 years) without ever owning a product from Apple, which is unusual considering I was born to an upper-middle-class family in the United States. While my slightly-older sister did use an iPhone 5s for a few years after it first came out, she barely remembers it now, and that was the sole exception to all of this.

With that niggerbabble out of the way, is it remotely possible that this kind of upbringing might've had implications (even marginal) on my development/growth over the course of my life so far? I was never explicitly bullied for it, but I can't stop thinking about how many potential opportunities (both social and maybe professional) I might've missed as a result. Most of my time as a boy was spent fucking around on the Vista desktop, though I did eventually become quite familiar (relatively-speaking) with the Android platform once I started using tablets. Those were the days when things really didn't "just work", especially on the shitters I had. I think I first installed a custom ROM via ADB (on a library computer kek) at around 14 or so, began messing with Loonix and Debian once I bought a shitty OptiPlex in high school.

My personal experience is very likely unique to the United States, because even in Europe things are lot more evenly-split. They have their own unique problems though, like being extremely reliant on the Meta-owned WhatsApp platform. It's kinda funny, since iMessage's exclusivity in the U.S. led to SMS' continued survival even to this day. Sorry if this is all a bunch of incoherent dementia-ridden retarded rambling, but I am simply wondering about your own potential experiences with not being aligned with mainstream/dominant technologies in your country, regardless of specific type.