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Originally Posted by stonetools
Of course the anti Apple folks will dismiss him as an Apple fan boy....
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And that's exactly the problem:
You think there are "anti-Apple folks" who dislike Apple because of something unrelated to whether or not Apple sells devices that they want. You think that people who don't buy Apple devices do so because of some baseless dislike for the company that makes them. You are really beginning to remind me of the people who claim others don't like their writing because of jealousy of their great writing ability (people who, by the way, are inevitably
bad writers).
I won't say there aren't anti-Apple folks out there because this is, after all, the world that gave us Rule 34 and proves it on a daily basis. When it comes to what's going on in people's heads, anything you can imagine is possible. I met a guy yesterday who had a Honda logo tattooed on his leg. But aside from the people out on the thin and wobbly ends of the curve, people don't have some strange antipathy toward Apple just because. Sure, it's easier to respond to them that way. "You're just an anti-Apple person, so it's useless saying anything." It saves a lot of effort (not to mention marketing). And you don't have to take the mental risk of acknowledging that you might be wrong about how great some Apple device is; it's the best there is, and you
know it's the best there is, and anyone who disagrees is just being irrational. Yeah, that's safe ... but it's not very realistic.
There are several companies I won't do business with because of their business policies and practices. (I should mention that Apple isn't one of them) That's a matter of deciding where to spend my dollar: if I have the choice of a company which acts in ways I consider beneficial and its competitor which acts in ways I consider harmful, I'm going to spend my money with the one I consider beneficial. But even that isn't a matter of "liking" or "hating" either company. It's pragmatism: "These guys are doing what I want, so I'll reward them by doing business with them in the hope of encouraging this behavior." It's not about feeling warm and fuzzy toward either one of them.
Saying that people who disagree with you are doing so strictly for emotional reasons is a stop-loss strategy. It might keep the people who already agree with you from changing their minds and disagreeing. It does not, however, get the people who disagree with you to change
their minds and agree with you. The people who disagree are not doing so for emotional reasons, and when you tell them they are, they dismiss you as being out of touch with them, and therefore not likely to say anything they would find useful. It's the last refuge of the person who has no valid reasons for a position other than emotion. And, well, it's just about what I'd expect from the "don't hold it that way!" people.