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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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.
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?
Real question being asked here.
Toilet made out of cats.
Cat sized actual toilet
That being said, I’m not OP, so who knows.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The only sticker I have on my car is from a insurance that I’m not even subscribed to lol. I just like the design.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…Houston is quite liberal, despite what you hear about Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stupid!
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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I have 18 years of Apple stickers laying around. Some of my stickers could drive a car.
I don’t put stickers on my car though. And this year I bought my first Linux computer in 15 years (I’m very unimpressed with Tim Cook and Trump, and diversifying out of American tech).
