&gt; <i>&quot;Are we really going to start using Spotify after so many years of hating on it?&quot; —our 15-year-old.</i><p>Genuinely curious here - why are so many techies desperately passionate (both positive and negative) about choice of unseemly unnecessary tech products? I feel like there is this peculiar subculture of tech-minded folk who defend at odds their tech choices. &quot;Slack is the best&quot; &quot;Hell no, IRC has been around for years!&quot; &quot;Let&#x27;s fight!&quot; I don&#x27;t see any rational reason to &quot;hate&quot; on the success of a company or a brand...