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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
I very much appreciate your reasonable tone but disagree with the idea that anecdotal/inductive evidence is nonprejudicial. "Many Apple users are moronic fanboys" = "many Asians are terrible drivers."
It doesn't matter how many members of a subset of people you happen to know personally. The idea is not to generalize -- especially when your tone is rational and you can make your point just as well without resorting to reductive characterizations.
I hope that didn't sound too preachy.
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I know all that. I meant that literally, exactly as stated: of all the Apple users I know, he is not an exception in thinking like that. Also, he is not an exception when compared to posts of many people I read online.
He actually isn't an exception compared to people I randomly meet. When working somewhere using my DELL notebook, I have had it happen more than once for a complete stranger to walk up to me and asking me why I use a Dell, when for the same money, I could have had a MacBook Pro.
I've never had anyone else but an Apple user ask me that, let alone a complete stranger. Many of them seem to feel the need to go out preaching and spread the word of Apple. Those people are like the priests you see in some old movies, who *HAVE* to mention God in every sentence they speak. (If you do such things, I'll instantly not like you. Beware.)
Obviously, I also know enough Apple users that aren't like that. I never said that *all* Apple users are, but it cannot be denied that a significant portion of the userbase is. Stereotypes normally don't just appear out of thin air.
On one Dutch technology/computer forum, there's actually a thread: "Show your Apple Computer". People show off their desk with their Apple stuff on it. (They don't seem to see that it's all exactly the same stuff over and over again except for the desk.) Why can't that thread be merged with the "Show your computer workplace"-thread? No, all hell would break loose in the Apple subforum if that happened.