{"id":4851,"date":"2015-08-14T20:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T20:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:08:37","slug":"anti-apple-fanboys-still-alive-and-kicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/anti-apple-fanboys-still-alive-and-kicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Apple Fanboys still alive and kicking"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if we don\u2019t have enough on our plates as modern adults, there are still mainstream parts of the Internet who vocally hate Apple. Their issues are based on misinformed hearsay or skewed logic and instead of allowing the supposed \u201csheep\u201d to keep using Apple hardware and software, these vocal naysayers spend a lot of time ensuring that the sheeple fully understand how screwed they really are by owning and using anything with an Apple logo on it.<\/p>\n

Of course, Apple versus everybody isn\u2019t the only brand argument happening on the Internet. There are people who love Ford trucks, Dewalt drills, Maytag washers and Sony televisions. The problem with hating Apple is that the brand is so well known and recognizable that it\u2019s very easy to encounter two brand devotees battling it out anonymously on blogs, reddit, forums. Provide a URL to a random Internet forum on any topic (Tattoos, construction, yarn collecting, gardening)and you\u2019ll find at least one page where two people battle over Apple versus something else.<\/p>\n

\u2026and it\u2019s quite frustrating to see it so often. Reddit\u2019s r\/Technology is possibly the best example of Apple-Hate with anything about Apple being down voted to where anti-Apple opinions reign supreme. If you read that sub-reddit, you\u2019d think Apple has 1% marketshare in everything.<\/p>\n

When I see instances of fanboy fights, it\u2019s best to turn to the original mud-flinging book by Scott Kelby titled, \u201cMacintosh\u2026The Naked Truth\u201d which was published in 2002 and the signed copy remains at my desk as a simple reminder of how far we\u2019ve come as Mac users. The battle rages on though and I\u2019ve ready quite a bit about flame-wars among brand loyalists and the logic is pretty simple. Either you truly believe based on facts and your needs that a brand is better than another brand or you believe your<\/em>\u00a0brand is better than anything else because it\u2019s yours and you spent money and time on it and therefore there\u2019s no way anything else could be better because, if there was something better, you\u2019d be using that instead.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same with sports teams. No one admits that someone else\u2019s team is better than there\u2019s even if the historical data is against them.<\/p>\n

Maybe this was just a pipe-dream but I really thought that when Apple reached a high profitability, market saturation in many different sectors with devices in the hands of home and corporate customers around the globe, the argument \u201cMacs Suck\u201d would fade away and no longer really be a conversation. In fact, the opposite has happened. It used to be only uber nerds who upgraded their video cards every 18 months circa 2001 would proclaim that Macs are inferior to everything else. These days, the conversation is coming from all directions. Those with Android Wear, Windows Phone, ChromeBooks, Ultralight portables, 5K monitors and PC Builders all have a reason to proclaim that their personal device is better than the Apple equivalent. There are a lot of reasons given by this group:<\/p>\n