The smugness is comparable to the old PC vs apple camps, that's a great analogy.. Oddly enough I always found myself buying mac products second hand from artist friends and still to this day struggle on any other OS.
I will readily admit though that the mystique of apple hasn't held up over the years and I can imagine my iPad was my last used apple product purchase..
As for the tell that to someone in developing nation my immediate quip back is please tell me why this blockchain doesn't have a fantastic mobile app for those of us living in non first world countries? I include myself in that lot as I've lived on a second world budget for 3 years using only a mobile device on steem ever. It stands to reason if the focus was bridging economic inequalities we would have a mobile first design as well as fantastic and easy to navigate avenues for the less fortunate to mingle into the first world wealth distribution model we have here thus far. Furthermore, there would be a great emphasis to have created language portals and the best translators built into the platform so that those that aren't fluent in English could feel more confident in their content creation. I know steem is a baby and stinc is not worth discussing but I'd assume these kind of projects would be in the pipeline of a more philanthropic platform..
Steempeak by far has the best team here and they clarified that they will be condensing their 90 minute steem opus into a 10 minute general video in the near future.
Thanks for the well thought out reply and always I appreciate your presence on the platform.
Cheers