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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People who
stick theApplelogo on their car: Why?FTFY.
I imagine it’s because all Apple products come with that sticker (or did when I actually bought stuff from them back when the iPod was the best mp3 player around) and the thing you got is either too small for it or already has a logo on it, so the car is the next best spot to slap 'em on.
Stupid!
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.
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…
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.
Is the cat toilet a litter box, or an actual toilet?
Real question being asked here.
Toilet made out of cats.
Depends on your tolerance for stretched definitions, but it’s one of those covered litterboxes a door.
An Apple sticker on a Thinkpad? Please, tell me you also installed Linux on it. That would be peak irony, right there.
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.
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 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.
I used to stick them on servers and firewalls at work, I thought it was funny.
Seems like a good way to let a thief know you have an Apple computer at home. In general, stickers on ones car is a bad idea from a privacy and security perspective.
This feels more like Facebook Karen paranoia than an actual flag for thieves, which I think are less and less common these days anyway.
Its not about who is potentially seeing the info, its that the info is available to anyone.
What of you accidentally cut off some psycho on the highway? Well now they know where you live and when you’ll likely leave. People have been stalked and murdered for less.
Opsec isn’t just about deterring thieves, or governments, or other bad actors. Its about minimizing what information you freely give to the world, so it may not be used against you by anyone.
Yeah an Apple sticker on a 2001 Civic doesn’t scream “expensive toys”.
It does suggest that maybe I bought an iPod shuffle a decade ago…
What does it say about me if my car has a “honk if you’re a goose” sticker and the brand badges removed?
You’re a bit of a gremlin, probably drive a bit too fast. You probably have a cat, they misbehave regularly and you love them for it. You didn’t play untitled goose game, but that’s ok because your life resembles it. You practice comic mischief as a form of corporate sabotage.
Am I close?
6/8, that’s closer than most get lol I actually have turtles that misbehave and untitled goose game is one of 6 games I’ve pulled 100% on.
In the USA, it’s not rare for people to have gun manufacturer stickers on their car.
Imagine you’re a thief and you see a Smith&Wesson sticker on a car parked outside a building where carrying guns is forbidden.
Exactly. In the USA, are gun owners required to keep guns in a secure location when unattended? If the answer is yes, I can see the owner getting charged with a crime and the insurance not paying out.
Not in most states, and some of those that do are unlikely to charge the owner in practice.
I’m going to guess a majority of people wouldn’t file an insurance claim. It would only make sense if
- They have insurance covering theft of property from inside a car, which is far from universal
- The deductible is substantially less than the value of the gun
- The insurance company isn’t likely to raise their premium as a result
Good to know, thanks.
They’re free and where else would they stick them? On their macbooks?
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.
You get the stickers with many of their products. Many stickers going around. Sometimes someone thinks, why not put it on there.
What other places have you noticed them? I only found them on cars so far and thought there must be a reason for it
I put one on my coffee pot at work. It’s my iPot.
You only see them on cars because they are out in public view. You’re just not seeing all the other things people have decided to put stickers on.
Suitcase, laptops, furniture, windows, like any other sticker. Being an apple fan used to be quite trendy only 10 years ago. And is still common.
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.
Brand fanboys + free stickers.
Brandlickers.
I feel like this was a lot more common ten or fifteen years ago, at least around here. Anymore most of the car stickers I see are either some political shit or about their dogs.
Around my area it’s stickers of anime tiddies.
Must be an… interesting… area.
Where are you from?Houston, Texas. I think it’s fairly common in lots of big cities - people care a lot less about what everybody thinks and just wanna show off their hobby.
That’s surprising.
Texas would have been the last place I would have expected someone to put something with a sexual context on their car, short of Afghanistan perhaps.
I am really surprised and wondering what other of my expectations might be wrong…Every time I drive through Houston I see something that makes you say “well that’s the weirdest thing I have ever seen.” The funniest one was back in the 80’s and I was driving home from a concert and a station wagon passed me that had to be doing over 100mph. It had about 18 or more people in it, and they were hanging out of every window including the back. This was a 70’s model wagon so it was literally the size of a barge but it was packed to the gills. Now that in and of itself isn’t too funny, but combine that with the fact that all 4 tires were those baby spares and you have pure gold right there. It was bumping along down the road at high speeds with those tiny little tires just hanging on for dear life along with most of the passengers. I am guessing they were trying to start a trend with the baby spares but it doesn’t seem like it took off. Recently it has been cars with swangers and ones that are absolutely plastered with small figurines or trophies. They just glue them on and hit the open road. Can’t wait to see what is next.
Houston is quite liberal, despite what you hear about Texas.
Stickers? I’ve seen entire car wraps of just shy of hentai. The stickers I always see are the ‘peekers’ and I try to see how many I can guess right.
Poor people are confused and think affording overpriced tech means they are wealthy. But they’re just slightly less poor.
This sounds like what Fox News programs it’s viewers to think of poor people
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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!
