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No doubt about it - what I'm trying to establish here is that not everyone who buys something with an apple on it is a fanboy and buys anything with an apple on it.
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Not every one, true.
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uhm ... sony fanboys are tasteful and apple fanboys are not?  right!  |
Aye. I don't see Sony fanboys setting up websites to promote every single Sony product, for instance.
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yet you continue to call people fanboys, not knowing what actually makes someone a fanboy? Talk about getting your facts straight  |
I think you're missing the spirit of the word 'fanboy'. Think fanatic boy, i.e. immature male fanatics. Filled with specious arguments and rabid support without justification or indeed supporting evidence.
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Stockholm syndrome, anyone smell stockholm syndrome?
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According to Wikipedia:
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In psychology, the Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims.
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What this has to do with anything I'm not quite sure. I'm quite thankful I'm not held hostage by Apple or its fanboys anymore though
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See, I have had 2 problems ever since I switched to using Macs - one loose cooling fan and one non-working speaker, both of which were repaired at no cost within an hour or so. No spontaneous resets, no BSODs, no reinstallation of the OS, no crashing outlook due to filled up PST files, no problems with SPAM, no problems with virii, no problems with trojans ... All I ever do on my parents' and in-laws' computers is fix things, clean things up, undo the installation of 25 browser toolbars, and update virus databases. I've had it up to here (see me drawing a virtual line 50cm above my head) with system fixing, I am tired of fixing things. I only do it because I have to or else be disposessed My friends spend an estimated 10% of their time not working but to tinkering with their machines instead. I have only had the mentioned 2 hours of repair time in the last 6.5 years, distributed over 3 Apple laptops. |
I'm glad Apple fanatics have decided the enemy is Microsoft Windows. They hope that's the only competition because they know operating systems based on Linux or OpenSolaris could blow Microsoft out of the water and work with parents' and in-laws' computers solving their problems in situ, but they're too busy promoting overpriced Apple hardware to acknowledge this.
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You're regurgitating ancient misinformation. Back then it was the old-school turntable generation having a problem with the newfangled MP3 with it's lack of depth and soul and whatever. Very much like the "paper-smell" fraction that's giving eBooks a hard time.
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The sound quality out of a cheap pair of earphones *is* bad. Doesn't matter if they are blessed by and overpriced by Apple.
You can buy lovely noise cancelling headphones to replace them, but Apple fanboys (and Apple itself through advertising) promote 'the look'. Figures.
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This thread is amazing. It's turned into an Apple bashing - however objectively the "fanboys" try to argument there is no finding a middle ground with the aPple haters who I shall now call "Billyboys" just for the sake of aggravating them.
I'm outta here, rubbing my iPhone all over my body and kneeling in front of my HisJobsNess shrine.
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And here you show your fanboy quality. Again with Steve Jobs as saviour, Bill Gates as the Devil, and anyone who dares to cross you on anything Apple as demons.
Billyboy indeed! Any Linux users other than me feel offended?
