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- MarthaBiggly, on 10/23/2007, -113/+631Well said. Absolutely spot on.
- davidrools, on 11/04/2007, -18/+300why in the world would you get an apple tattoo?
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -119/+379The worst thing about buying a Mac is having to tell your parents you are gay.
- XxXoldsaltXxX, on 10/17/2007, -47/+234As maddox put it, the worst thing about macs is the fact that it's users never shut the ***** up about how much they love their macs...
- timusca, on 10/29/2007, -211/+379While I consider myself to be part of "The Cult" (I have an Apple tattoo), this guy does make some good points... even I have been guilty of some of those things. However, don't MS fans do the exact same things? When the Zune came out, they were all about trashing the iPod and saying the Zune was going to conquer all. It's really no different... and worse, 99% of the Windows users out there that trash the Mac OS, have never even used it for more than 5 minutes. At least the mouth-foaming Apple fanatics have used Windows plenty of times...
Face it, no matter what side people are on, the vocal bunch from all sides are annoying. This article is also very typical and hypocritical... he says Apple users are annoying because they whine about competitors non-stop, but he whines about Apple users just as much. What kind of person dislikes a computer because of other people using the same type? It sounds lame as hell, really. Just pick a computer that you prefer, and leave it at that... personally, it just doesn't make sense to choose something else just because the people that choose the same thing are annoying. I call it "the emo rule". - blueeyedmonster, on 11/04/2007, -11/+149Sorry, I can't get past the part of your post where you said you have an Apple tattoo?????? Please tell me it's supposed to be ironic? A statement about consumerism and the power of brand iconography?
Or are you just THAT much of a fan boy??? What motivated it? Please, do tell. - epalla, on 10/16/2007, -11/+133I'm having a hard time wording this...
I don't think there are vocal Microsoft fans. At least, not even close to the degree of 'fanship' that Apple fans have. I bet there are more people with Apple tattoos than Microsoft tattoos, for example. And there are a lot more Windows users than Apple users. At least, I've never encountered the 'annoying vocal' side from Microsoft, but I've seen it everywhere from Apple. - segfaultxr7, on 10/18/2007, -12/+114The worst thing about being gay is having people assume that you're a Mac zealot.
- Drgn547, on 10/23/2007, -22/+112To me, the worst thing about Macs right now is the gap in Apple's product line - right between the iMac and the Mac Pro. Give me a more affordable, lower-end version of the Mac Pro and I will once again be your fan, Apple.
- canha, on 10/14/2007, -10/+100Microsoft has fanboys?
- macaddct1984, on 10/15/2007, -30/+114The title of the Digg article should be: The worst thing about mac /fans/
This article has nothing to do with macs - carguy84, on 10/23/2007, -35/+114The worst thing about owning a Mac? Having to tell your parents you're gay.
i kid i kid - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+80While I consider myself to be part of "The Cult" (I have an Apple tattoo),...blah...blah...blah Wait WHAT!! you got an apple tatoo! WTF?? Pics or you don't.
- marm0lade, on 10/19/2007, -23/+94Not sure why you are getting dugg down. This article is spot on. Look at the comment thread for any Zune article on digg and you will see why.
- bstew22, on 10/23/2007, -8/+78you lost me at "i have an apple tattoo"
- Nidy1, on 10/11/2007, -8/+76If you're serious...did you get paid or something to get an Apple tattoo? I mean...jeez.
- bluenullity, on 10/11/2007, -10/+70It all depends on the community, I stopped reading Engadget and Gizmodo comments long ago when the iPhone was surfacing. I just couldn't stand to read the back and forth between the readers of either sites. I am glad I had built up my ignor-o-beam to filter out Fanboyism, RonPaulism, and Tinfoilism.
- austinshea, on 10/11/2007, -8/+68Despite being an Apple user, and OS X being my favorite operating system, I can admit that there are many things wrong with 'Macs'; these things may have been worthy of exploration in an article. This article is not about Macs at all, but about apple fans, which is a thoroughly uninteresting topic.
- Zgradis, on 10/12/2007, -47/+99I love how all my mac friends say "well do you have widgets?" "My mac can tell me the temperature and sing me songs with my widgets..." Then I just ask them was apple the first company to put out widgets? They always seem to think apple created widgets, I laugh and show them konfabulator...
But I will agree there are PC fan-boys, and linux fan-boys as well... Every OS will have its lovers and haters, but please get over yourself no one cares if you like one OS or another and claiming one OS is better then another is a fight you can't win because its simply based on the end user (plus really the only people who care that much about how great an OS is, are the people who already like the OS)... Just use whats right for you. And next time some one says "that OS sucks" tell them to give you a reason why... Most of em can't and that usually shuts them up. - hackntossh, on 08/27/2008, -25/+76I don't think having a IIgs qualifies you as an Apple expert.
- livingwater, on 10/23/2007, -54/+101Buried as inaccurate. Apples are perfect and so are their users (source: www.digg.com).
- bethehammer, on 10/23/2007, -15/+60An apple tattoo? WTF!! How much of a tool are you? Seriously, the only cool brand name tattoo would be a Harley-Davidson emblem and that tattoo will ensure you never get a high paying job.
- dunnylovehun, on 10/23/2007, -0/+44...and sometimes the cattle brand themselves for you.
- rdhaag, on 10/11/2007, -12/+53While I agree with what is said, I would have to say that this is true with just about anything. If you look at sports fans, car fans, even things such as mobile phone brands, each group of people will have it's fanatics that always think this way. I don't think Apple has the exclusive on these kinds of fans.
- emiles, on 10/23/2007, -11/+51Not sure why he's getting dugg down but you think the article is spot on? The article explains why he is getting dugg down.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41We prefer to be called fanmen.
- chukd, on 10/11/2007, -14/+51I have used both Macs and Windows machines. I am sick of the anti Mac and Window stuff. The author of the post has a misleading title. The problem isn't with Macs, its with the zealots that back them.
- widman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41Both Apple and Microsoft fanboys are idiots.
Go Linux fanboys!
(naaaah, just joking.)
And I second, oh, I third the question about why did you tattoo a brand in your skin. - Raian, on 10/11/2007, -13/+50Yeah well Apple's kernel panic arrives in multiple languages, and in a beautiful transparent gray. So ***** YOU!
- eatasandwich, on 10/15/2007, -2/+37*throws away the page of the dictionary where "irony" is listed...hits print scrn.......*
- rompom7, on 10/15/2007, -30/+65I can't use an iPod on my PC natively. I have to install iTunes and Quicktime.
- fenixconnektion, on 10/11/2007, -3/+35"elegant, simple software, that's stable..."
Apparently you have not used iTunes for Windows, my friend. - nuteredardvark, on 10/18/2007, -6/+37"The lack of full wireless sharing for non DRM files for example is something obvious on the face of it."
You missed the point the article just stated that the ipods don't even have the wifi capabilities so why is everyone complaining about things that fall under the wifi capabilities. Just because the zunes wifi isn't perfect, it's still better then no wifi. - energyblue, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33I don't think people really got that joke. I Dugg.
- Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30Are you kidding? All the Amiga fanboys died--suffocated by their clouds of smug.
- Terc, on 10/15/2007, -4/+33Fantastic article. I just wish the title would have been something closer to "The Worst Thing Apple" This really isn't a complaint about Macs (which would refer to their computers).
- lonnieh, on 10/15/2007, -6/+35now you are double gay
- Glorydies, on 10/11/2007, -7/+35First let me say that your comment is wrong, and second let me say i laughed my ass off.
- cmiller1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28and I'll boot up my SE/30 and open up the calculator, puzzle, etc. desktop accessories for you ;)
- livingwater, on 10/11/2007, -3/+29to make a long adventure-story short, I haven't had much fun using itunes and iPods with Windows
- demodawid, on 10/23/2007, -6/+32I think this is relevant:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ma ...
Everyone should give it a read... haha. - yournightmare, on 10/11/2007, -10/+35"This article is also very typical and hypocritical... he says Apple users are annoying because they whine about competitors non-stop, but he whines about Apple users just as much."
--Well, by that logic, nobody could ever complain about how much somebody complains. Also, that's not hypocritical behavior, because the author isn't pretending to be what he's not or believe something he doesn't. - athloi, on 10/16/2007, -50/+75Apple fanboys have been like this since the 1980s. Windows fanboys aren't as bad, and while Linux people are very close, they're still not as smarmy and smug. Even Amiga users did not reach these heights of pretension. I think it's in all of our interests to have more sanity enter the debate
- JonestownTea, on 10/11/2007, -3/+27He is getting paid for product placement.
- coolboy0286, on 10/11/2007, -5/+29Sigh, this is just like the console wars. Everyone just STFU (yes that includes me, a nintendo fan), nobody wants to hear your fanboy whine.
- modix, on 10/23/2007, -1/+24Lifetime windows user... never heard of it. But I could list of 4-5 Mac fansites just from reading digg regularly
- dext3r, on 10/11/2007, -6/+29I got a macbook pro a couple months ago. i really liked the clean design and aesthetic. also, i was ready to try something new, being a long-time windows user. OS X is pretty good to me, although some things really annoy the piss out of me. HItting enter renames the selected item? How often am i going to be renaming things? why doesnt hitting enter open the damn thing. regardless, have not had to deal with a ton of security updates and other windows crap. i just like to use my computer to get my work done. sometimes i even forget that im using an apple computer. who cares what you use, as long as you get the job done? still need to use bootcamp to play games :)
- Bleeblaow, on 10/23/2007, -10/+33So you are saying that Apple users are only smug and not "smug + ignorant." I don't see how you can say that. The writer of the article used the Zune as an example. It is doubtful that any of the Apple users who bash the Zune have any experience with the device. That would qualify them as ignorant.
Obviously, it completely depends on what user is placing what insults on what products, but it is ENTIRELY possible that many of the fanboy-esque statements thrown about from Apple users are just as ignorant as those of Windows users.
It's amusing when I see an article about a Zune and the cookie-cutter, "All x people who own a Zune blah blah blah," in which x is some single-digit whole number. What a pointless statement to ever make. As a Zune-owner (and not even a big Microsoft fan, I use Linux as my primary OS), I must say that it is ignorant of anyone to make such a remark. It's doubtful that any of these people have ever used a Zune. And I would say such smug comments are guided entirely by ignorance.
Look around for articles on the Zune and I guarantee such a comment can be found in more than half of them. - tracydanger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23This competition is like sports for geeks. You could replace Apple and Microsoft with the Browns and Steelers in that article and it'd just about make sense (I'm, sadly, a Browns fan, thus the particular reference). You always side with the home team even when it's totally illogical. Same phenomenon, different content.
- CraigJ, on 10/11/2007, -6/+26Windows, Mac, Linux. I use them all. Whatever gets the job done. Apple has problems. Microsoft has problems, though to be fair I think Microsoft has become the big, giant, stagnant company, where Apple still seems more agile - you could use their respective stock prices to back this up. Fanaticism of any sort = myopia.
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