I found a rainbows one from the 90s so I put it on because it was cool and retro and I love rainbows.
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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.
Yeah, when you get a "free" sticker, you tend to stick it to something. Even more so, if the sticker is shiny and cool looking.
I got some MSI stickers with my old GPU and was tempted to stick them somewhere. Ultimately didn't, because they didn't match the aesthetic of anything and I consider it as bad for heat dissipation, so wasn't going to put them on such surfaces anyway.
ASUS gave a velcro cable-tie though and even though the laptop was shit, I tend to use the cable-tie quite a bit.
it's a sticker. stickers are fun to stick on stuff. apple gives out stickers, most PC companies dont'.
a lot of things in life are not purposeful.
People who ~~stick the~~ Apple ~~logo 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.
Stupid!
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?
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.
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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...
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.
I stand by it being unwise to advertise owning something that gets more valuable when it's stolen
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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.
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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.
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Brand fanboys + free stickers.
Brandlickers.
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.
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.
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
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.
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Marketing. They give you a decent quality sticker with most of their products, which becomes free advertising
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.
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