I'm a Fan of Apple, believe it or not

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Journal by BlackBolt on Thursday October 23, 2003 @06:13PM

I'd just like to mention that I am a big fan of Apple Computers, but I hate the Mac Zealots. They are BY FAR the worst thing about Apple (although chipping paint on a 3-week old TiBook can also make you cry like a schoolgirl and shake your fists angrily at God, screaming, "WHY?"; but that's another story).

Okay okay, I've said this all before, but these irrational morons on Slashdot really bug me. A person will write, "Mac OSX has Zero bugs. Absolutely Zero.", or something equally insane, and I'll respond, "Well, there are a few bugs, but it's still an excellent OS, and it's what I prefer to Windows by far", and then about 50 AC's and rabid zealots will jump on that post and just attack me like crazy. I read their posts *shocked* that people could be so distant from reality. How can a rational human being actually believe that Mac OS X is PERFECT? Can't they think of ANYTHING they'd change? I certainly can, and I write Apple regularly with feature requests. Often get them too (of course, I think my feature requests are popular ones, like recording on the iPod, and a glowy Keyboard on the laptops). Without people putting pressure on Apple to improve, or seeing shortcomings in their products and requesting improvements, there would be no improvements. I see myself as a better customer and helper to Apple Corporate than the zealots, because I encourage people to buy Macs if it's the right solution, and discourage them if it's clearly wrong (as a server for 20 WinXP desktops, for example). The reason I use the server example is because my friend asked me about it, didn't like my "Win2000Server" answer, and then got the same response from Apple themselves.

I guess I don't like people lying or "stretching the truth" in order to make sales. I feel Apple stands on its own quite well, and honesty makes for less bitter customers who feel betrayed.

Strangely, when I criticize Linux for any of the many flaws it has, the Linux Zealots that are so feared really are nowhere to be found. A guy actually said, "Screw you, I'll f**king fix it to show you up". And he DID! There are a few religious Linux zealots, but nowhere NEAR the amount of Mac Zealots who seem really insecure over the slightest affront. The Mac guys just seem to attack anyone who suggests any solution but the Apple one, while the Gnu guys seem to reject anything less than absolute transparency or freedom. I can respect their religion of Free Software, because I understand how fighting for consumer rights and expanded self-reliance is important. I don't need it, but it's definitely nice to know the source code is there if I did. On the other hand, I don't understand how Mac guys promoting a Corporate agenda is a valid "religion". It's just underhanded astroturfing in many cases.

I guess this is my last post for a while about the insultingly spiteful Apple fans here, I'm getting repetitive. And I tend to spite back, and that's no good for anyone. Flamewars suck. Like Al Pacino said in Godfather III, "Every time I think I'm out, they PULL.ME.BACK.IN!!" Every time I post, I get more anti-Apple because of these fanatical dickheads. I thought they were paid Shills for Apple, maybe they're paid by Microsoft! I think they're really doing damage to Apple - they've definitely driven a painful wedge into my heart where Apple is concerned. I just hope they don't eventually kill Apple outright. Because they're my favorite company, even with their flaws.

By the way, I won't be upset if everybody removes themselves from being my friends now, I expect people won't like everything I say that's honest and from the heart.

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