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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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Brand fanboys + free stickers.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is the cat toilet a litter box, or an actual toilet?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    An Apple sticker on a Thinkpad? Please, tell me you also installed Linux on it. That would be peak irony, right there.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Must be an... interesting... area.
    Where are you from?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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...

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You get the stickers with many of their products. Many stickers going around. Sometimes someone thinks, why not put it on there.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What other places have you noticed them? I only found them on cars so far and thought there must be a reason for it

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Marketing. They give you a decent quality sticker with most of their products, which becomes free advertising

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This feels more like Facebook Karen paranoia than an actual flag for thieves, which I think are less and less common these days anyway.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What does it say about me if my car has a "honk if you're a goose" sticker and the brand badges removed?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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).

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They're free and where else would they stick them? On their macbooks?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    People who stick the Apple logo on their car: Why?

    FTFY.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Who said that they are from US?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Good point.

    OP where are you from.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    They mentioned they are German.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't forget the ubiquitous Sylt sticker.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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... 😆

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Poor people are confused and think affording overpriced tech means they are wealthy. But they're just slightly less poor.

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    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Because company car and corporate branding...... I don't even work for them but they are a customer/supplier.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    On the flipside, one of my laptops as a "Hertz gold standard clean seal"-sticker on it.

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