This stance overlooks the fact that some people have very specific needs not being addressed by the FOSS types that are obsessing on the things that they want.

The mainstream for the most part just don't care - they want to be able to conveniently share/communicate/do things that other people are doing as well. And by convenient, I mean easily done. And on a product that's socially acceptable and easy to use.

So what Linus has a MacBook Air? He can still program on it. So what Bad Voltage guys have iPhones? I bet they have significant others that also have iPhones and request to do Facetime often enough to where that's a selling point.

In the end, these are all tools. How you use it will invariably be slightly different than others.