The Wrath of the Apple Tribe

Narrative Fallacy writes "If you've ever written about Apple products with even a hint of negativity, you'll appreciate Salon's excerpt from Farhad Manjoo's True Enough, about why the Apple tribe is so rabid. 'There are many tribes in the tech world: TiVo lovers, Blackberry addicts, Palm Treo fanatics, and people who exhibit unhealthy affection for their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners,' writes Manjoo. 'But there is no bigger tribe, and none more zealous, than fans of Apple, who are infamous for their sensitivity to slams, real or imagined, against the beloved company.' Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg has even coined a name for the phenomenon — the 'Doctrine of Insufficient Adulation.' 'If I see the world as all black and you see the world as all white and some person comes along and says it's partially black and partially white, we both are going to be unhappy,' says psychologist Lee Ross at Stanford University. 'You think there are more facts and better facts on your side than on the other side. The very act of giving them equal weight seems like bias. Like inappropriate evenhandedness.'"

Comments

Re:Experience it first hand

[amirulbahr]

Hell, I just kissed away some karam Funny, that actually is an Arabic word and I get the feeling you never had any of it to begin with.

Re:It's a religion

[Charcharodon]

iTunes is a garbage program, why would you want something so invasive installed on your machine? Its just like Realplayer only it crashes more often.

Re:I blame it on Apple...

[dangitman]

She kept dragging things off the laptop screen onto the projector. This had her totally fucking confused for 5 minutes. Several times I tried to explain what was going on, but she would cut me off and say "See--it's disappearing. Why is it on the projector and not on my laptop. It's broken."

Interesting. I see the exact same thing all the time from coworkers who use Windows. The Mac users actually seem to understand monitor-spanning versus mirroring. The fact that there are incompetent people on different platforms doesn't really prove anything.

Re:Experience it first hand

[jellomizer]

I have found Linux zealism far worse then apple fanboyism. Apple fan boys are often the most criticle of new things come out. OS 9, Power PC holdouts, even the mighty mouse had huge debates on was it good or bad or good enough. They complain about price and all the other stuff. Linux fanboys seem like they turn a blind eye to any "non technical" problem. Like Ubentu wouldn't install under paralles, it was a bug in the installer code. But except for admiting it was a bug they pointed me to a workaround site that still didn't work 100%. that is just one example but in that case most apple fanboys will go either that is a bug you you can't normally run OS X under virtulization