{"id":3357,"date":"2011-12-15T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T19:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T19:59:27","slug":"horseshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/horseshit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 “Horseshit”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It gets under my skin because it is a pompous, privileged, insulting, and myopic viewpoint which reeks of class warfare \u2014 and it is indicative of a growing sentiment I see amongst people in the tech community.<\/p>\n

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And… it’s a shitty way to think about other people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Josh Topolsky of The Verge.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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YES YES YES!<\/p>\n

I’ve been trying my damndest to write a post this week entitled, “In Defense of John Gruber” and I just can’t finish it. The premise is that John hasn’t changed and he’s always defended and represented Apple because Apple is just better than everyone else and he makes an easy target when you’re looking to call someone a fanboy or use someone as an example of how insane Apple users are. I feel bad for John, and MG but not as much.<\/p>\n

However, recently I get very very angry when I read Daring Fireball. I respectually and lovingly use Windows and Macintosh products each and every day and I use this blog to convey my love and hate of those products in a fair and very honest way. John and MG don’t do that. At least MG’s defense is that he used to be a die hard Windows user and now he’s not but that’s not a very good excuse.<\/p>\n

Moving on, every single word of Josh’s post was spot on. I don’t think less of John or MG but I kindly say to myself every day that they need to calm down on loving Apple. This isn’t some marathon to love Apple more than everyone else.<\/p>\n

I think this all started when Android began sucking less. Every single Apple blogger who fought tooth and nail (myself included) from 1999 to 2007 for people to give a crap about our beloved company enjoyed a solid 4 years of “Apple is the best” echoed not just by our peers and other Apple loving bloggers but by analysts, mainstream media sources and even our Windows loving friends who keep switching to Apple hardware. It was a great time..then Android started getting better and we went into crisis mode.<\/p>\n

We started with these points on why Android was losing to iOS and then over time, the points we had just started getting more and more far-fetched:<\/p>\n