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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.'"
to catchup with the Amiga.
You mean it's not rabies? Oh...I guess I didn't need those shots after the last time I called the MacBook "useless" and one of them bit me...
Are you sure you've read the summary correctly AND you know what board you're posting on? You seem to be confusing Microsoft and Apple. One is bad, the other is God.
Hope this helps. Oh, and you might want to cut back on the schnapps.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I was assualted by a fanboi when I told him my Tapwave was cooler than his iPhone. Luckliy, I had a stylus as a weapon, while all he had was his finger. He didn't want to drop his iPhone either becuase it didn't have applecare.
Trying to install linux on my microwave, but keep getting a kernel panic...
Are you one of these 'females' I keep reading about?
Ooo, someone forgot to take their "Think Different" pills this morning, didn't they?
John
It pisses me off that using Apple products makes you "different". I'm way more different than those preppy jerks. I have a tattoo of a Chinese symbol on my wrist that means 'peace' in English. I have the tips of my semi-dirty long hair dyed green. I even have a nose ring *and* a lip ring (earrings are a given in my non-conformist world). Seriously those Apple fans need to start coming up with commercials with lame yet catchy songs that accompany a minimalist but stylish product line.
Pfft. I wear a long sleeve shirt under a short sleeve shirt under a long sleeve shirt.
Everything will be taken away from you.
I dunno. The levels of insanity reached in both Apple fanboyism and the Israeli/Palastenian conflict seems equivalent sometimes. Hey, you hear that? That's the sound of my karma level going through the floor!
Oh yes. And don't get me started on the reflections in the new 3D Dock. They're all wrong.
-- Cheers!
Apparently it's not just Apple Fanboys that can't handle criticism!
make world, not war
'Cuz I'm too drunk to remember their current slogan, whatever the hell it is. I know there's something folksy about the Macbook Air music, and U2 sings Vertigo for old iPods, and there's a funny "Hi, I'm a PC and I'm a Mac" commercial campaign, but no actual slogans that have sloshed their way to my addled forebrain.
If they had a good slogan now, I'm sure I would have made my joke about it instead. But I came up empty, like a manila envelope with nothing inside.
Oh, and I remember Ellen Feiss. She was kind of hot, in that grunge way. But nobody takes Ellen Feiss pills any more, they smoke Ellen Feiss blunts instead. :-)
John
I'm actually surprised Dvorak hasn't tried to patent this technique.
They don't even bother with taglines anymore. They know what it is they sell, and sell it without even using words. What they sell is image.
The macbook air ad tells you exactly what to do with it: pull it out from somewhere like a rabit from a magician's hat, then show it off to your neighbors (then put it away because it can't do shit).
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I've heard of some crazy stretches for comparison, but come on, a journalist actually comparing a group of people that have an affinity for a company's products to a deeply-complicated bloody 60+ year old conflict? Talk about going off the deep end.
It's a bit like the word "feminazi", which draws a completely unfair analogy, as it is deeply insulting to any proud member of the National Socialist party.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
I don't really want to know where you pulled that one from, but I've never experienced any failure on my boxes, let alone endless fail.
And personally, I disagree with the Troll moderation. That is Flamebait.
No tyrant thrives when every subject says no.
I think you're being unfair to the Israeli/Palestinians to be honest...
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
I always wondered "Who goes on Slashdot and spends all of their mod points modding stuff down?" I've never modded anything down; it seems pointless. I'd rather build up a good (or funny) comment than destroy something I disagree with, and could never understand the psychology of people who do as such.
It's all starting to make sense now. It's Apple users. Perhaps its the inferiority of their computer of choice that compels them to live so negatively. Perhaps its the knowledge, buried deep in their subconscious, that they support a platform that nobody in the IT world takes seriously that causes them to act out in such counter-productive ways.
"Ha ha!" The Mac user says. "I have mod points. I will protect the Slashdot community by searching out 'first post' comments and modding them as trolls! The world is safe for another day!".
The Internet is generally stupid
People will think that you are:
a) Slightly retarded
b) Slightly gay
c) The same person
Either way, you fail it.
By the way, I have to chuckle at the fact that the only way you can get your sockpuppets to be modded up is to dispense the usual "M$ Windoze LOLOL" tripe. I can almost see you hyperventilating when you have to spell them correctly.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo