The Psychology of Fanboys 289
Testiiiiing writes "CoolTechZone.com's Gundeep Hora publishes his thoughts on why fanboys act the way they do. 'For fanboys (and I use the term with utmost respect, at least for this article), their appetite to support their favorite company to beat the big, bad corporate heavyweights gets delusional at times. And why not? After all, we all like to cheer the underdog... reasonably. In addition to cheering for the little guy, fanboys also think it's their responsibility to spread the word about their favorite company. Combine their need to do marketing on behalf of their adopted companies and their products with the passion to make others see things their way, and you have a powerful group of people.'"
But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:5, Interesting)
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You say it as a joke, but it might be partially true.
Through history there have been many people who where more than willing to adopt heavily critized, but very success political standpoints. Just see this rise for fascism in Italy or Germany, or the presence of creationists on slashdot.
*Okay, so Godwin me.
Re:But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh come on, that was barely a Godwin honorable mention at best. It was a highly oblique comparison that didn't even invoke the "N" word or the "H" word.
But you're still guilty. Were you following orders, minion?
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Already marked flamebait? Wow, some mods can't take a joke. Just to be clear for the less abstractly minded, the "n" word was "Nazi" and the "h" word was "Hitler". Jeez.
Re:But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:5, Insightful)
Fanboy, zealot, fanatic, fundamentalist, bigot.. other stuff. All the same in essence.
It's all just people who believe beyond reason in something. I know.. boring but true. When people know only a bit of what there is to know about something, or therabouts, they get really idealistic and passionate about it. It's human nature. Then, after time, if they get to know enough, they become cynical, or at best, just plain realistic.
Fanboys are the result of feelings of ignorance and insecurity. The more a person feels the pressures of both, the more he tries to convince others of what he thinks.
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I can not say the same for Microsoft users. In their eyes just using a different operating system makes you a heretic that hates Microsoft and wants to see it burn.
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I just don't see a lot of Windows users trying to convince their friends with Apples or Linux-based machines that Windows is better.
Re:But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:5, Insightful)
Many people derive a large part of their identity from the brands of product they buy and view any negative commentary on those brands and directed at them personally. If a guy has Windows computers, a Windows handheld, a Windows DVR, and knows a hell of a lot about Windows, and you tell him that Windows sucks he may, at the very least, see that as an attack on his consumer acumen and lash out at you.
Then you have the people driving Dodge vehicles with graphics of Calvin pissing on a Ford logo. Or vice versa. And Nascar fans. Or sports fans in general. I enjoy handmade cutlery and every so often visit web forums dedicated to just that. The brand loyalty people are there even, as this thread [bladeforums.com] will clearly show.
In a psychological sense Fanboyism is a lot deeper than the article suggests, and it is a consequence of a culture as materialistic as Western culture tends to be.
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The fanboy phenomenon is just the evolutionary extension that maintains the existing pipelines of manufactured consent, as broadcast mediums become less of a part of daily life.
Unfortunately, there is not any obvious solution to
Re:But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:4, Insightful)
Excellent.
Extending the parent poster's logic just a bit nobody wants to think they selected anything other than the best OS when in reality the best OS is the one that meets your needs. Some people have a lot of their personal self-worth tied up in their selection of computer platforms ;-)
Re:But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:5, Insightful)
Fanboys aren't always logical. They may be logical 99.9% of the time, but that 0.1% will cause someone like me to call them out on their bullshit. That's the problem with fanboys, in my opinion. I'm a technologist, not an appleologist or a linuxologist or a windowsologist. I couldn't give a flying fuck what logo is on the software/hardware/candy I use, as long as it does what I want it to. I want to be proven wrong. I want to learn. I don't want to be using the second-best technology just because my favourite CEO says it's the best when real-world application tells me, and others, otherwise.
Re:But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:5, Insightful)
"Once we have made a choice or taken a stand, we will encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently with that commitment."
I'd like to point out that although there are many good reasons to run Linux and I certainly appreciate it as a product (I run Linux, FreeBSD and Windows), there are many people who run Linux but can't give you a reasonable explanation as to why. It's a perfectly legitimate choice if you were to pick operating systems out at random, or if you could not afford a commercial operating system, or for many other reasons. However, most "fanboi" type Linux advocates and users don't have a logical reason for using Linux. Instead, they rely heavily on social proof. Linux users are "sticking it to the man", a perspective which fits with the age and demographics of many Linux "fanbois". More specifically, Linux "fanbois" will describe Microsoft's business practices as a reason to run Linux. This is a valid reason to run Linux and to advocate Linux if you're informed on what exactly Microsoft's business practices are, but most Linux "fanbois" will only say that Microsoft is a monopoly and that they bundle products. They have no knowledge of the specifics, they're only parroting what they read in forums and someone's blog. They claim there is evidence out there to support their position (And there is!) but they have no knowledge of it. Basically, you could say they're right for the wrong reason. The "reasoning" that drove them towards the "right" answer is Social Proof. The Linux movement, composed of Linux advocates, manages to convince not only intelligent people who choose the operating system for logical reasons, but also empty minded "fanbois" who are convinced by Social Proof that Linux is superior, and that by running Linux they will be part of an exclusive club of the Elite who run Linux (starting to relate to Scarcity). This easily convinced "fanboi" then spends the time to get Linux working on his computer. This isn't always an easy task depending on driver support, learning how to install an operating system in the first place, and other technical factors that can make switching to Linux difficult for a novice. Once that difficulty has been overcome, the "fanboi" feels that he has invested a great deal of time and energy into Linux, therefore there must be some kind of payoff. The "fanboi" is very unlikely to be able to even use Linux for anything other than an internet appliance, running a web browser, email software, etc, from X, so very little of the actual benefit of Linux is lost on the "fanboi". Yet after having invested himself in Linux and "learning how to use it" (even though he didn't really), the "fanboi" has finally reached Commitment and Consistency. Having put time and effort into Linux, committing himself to it, he can't believe that he spent all that time and effort for nothing. Even if Linux was a horrible operating system (which it isn't), the "fanboi" would still be a solid believer in the superiority of the system he installed, because he cannot accept that idea that he might have wasted his time installing something either horrible OR closer to reality: something he isn't knowledgable enough to use.
There's nothing wrong with any of this, with one major exception. The "fanboi" may end up learning Linux really well which makes for a great job skill and a deeper understanding of computers as a whole. What's wrong with the "fanboi" is the fact that he and his ilk act as advocates of the system while speaking from a position of ignorance, based on Social Proof (other really smart people run Linux) and Commitment and Consistency (I run it so it's t
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MOD PARENT UP! (Score:2)
The thing is, it's not like slashdot has gotten worse about this. it's been the same bullshit ever since I started reading slashdot. the only thing that you no longer see as the "Linux will take over the desktop by Xmas!!!" posts any more. At best, you get the occasional glee of "Today the Friedrichshafen municicipal water department has switched to Linux, tomorrow the world!!!!"
Re:But how do you explain the M$ fanboys? (Score:4, Insightful)
Does anyone (other than Twitter) really, honestly think that Microsoft actually *pays* people to post pro-MS messages *on slashdot*? I mean seriously, it's absolutely rediculous. I can imagine MS paying people to spread a pro-MS message, but on Slashdot? Give me a break. The slashdot community is not some powerful cabal of systems administators that can make or break any tech product, and I highly doubt MS really cares about what gets posted here.
I've seen several reasoned, articulate rebuttals to anti-MS bullshit* around here, and nearly every such post gets modded into oblivion and the poster labelled as a fanboy shill. It's really quite sad, because in the same thread there will usually be several incoherent anti-MS rants that somehow get +5 Informative.
*that is not to say that all all anti-MS stuff is bullshit - most of it around here is quite legit. But there is an abundance of FUD, too.
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Microsoft has paid for positive comments elsewhere, including Wikipedia. http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArt i cle.jhtml?articleID=196903015 [informationweek.com].
They're trying to drum up support through their own blogs http://blogs.msdn.com/ausdev/ [msdn.com], there was the fake support letters during their anti-trust prosecution, the fake Zune fansites, the fake Switchers campaign and a dozen more.
Why
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And I won't even address your reference to the Wikipedia issue, which is a perfect example of fanboy exaggeration for the sake of making an emotional argument. And wow, they "shill" in their own blogs. Unthinkable.
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So, here's another question: this article is called "The Psychology of Mac Zealots"; what's the "psychology" of people who instantly call anyone who posts anything about Apple a "fanboy"? The article talks about how "fanboys" might be right, but also says that being anonymous and abusive (and therefore annoying) when making their point is a hallmark of a "fanboy". So how can a person who is neither (and also is correct about a factual point) a "fanboy"?
It isn't about "rooting for the underdog" or trying to create "converts" (directly, anyway). It's about wanting correct information disseminated about something you're interested in. And if it adds factual information to the discussion, what's wrong with that? To me, saying that something is obviously better or "rocks" or that something else "sucks" with no logical reasoning to back it up is what makes someone a "fanboy".
Cue the posts calling me a "fanboy fanboi"!
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I'd like to follow that up with a dissemination of correct information. You are a "fanboi fanboy". Thanks, just wanted to clear that up before this thread got out of hand.
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So, here's another question: this article is called "The Psychology of Mac Zealots"; what's the "psychology" of people who instantly call anyone who posts anything about Apple a "fanboy"?
I agree with you. I thought the notion that fanboys root for the underdog is ludicrous. I mean... how long have Playstation supporters been being called Sony fanboys? And the PS2 was SO not an underdog last gen. According to this mentality, there is no such thing as a Microsoft fanboy, or a Square-game (i.e. Final Fantasy) fanboy. That's just pure nonsense.
This is a very poor way to attempt to classify fanboys. I doubt this guy even uses teh intranets. (itsajoke. If someone's a fanboy of his, I dont ne
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*: Any response to the effect of "Apple never does anything that puts itself in a bad light" would be an instant confirmation of fanism. Every company, person, organisation, and thing has negatives.
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- If you're a user of a product by choice, you probably believe the positives outweigh the negatives, one would hope, so naturally you're going to have less negative things to say about it in general.
- Personally, my main concern is submissions and highly moderated comments with incorrect information; nearly always it's negative information, so the items being corrected are already skewed to the negative side, meaning that the corrections will nearly always be "positive".
If some moron is going nuts about "ZOMG iPhone r0xxxx and it's better than every smartphone EVAR" (or the reverse), I don't see any need to respond to that at all. But if someone says "We don't know if iPhone has a removeable SIM, so Apple is really screwed in Europe", and then I say, "Uh, yes, it's already been proven that it does have a removable SIM and there is no technical reason it couldn't be used on any carrier in Europe if Apple chose to sell it unlocked," that, in my view, doesn't make me a "fanboy", even though it casts Apple's situation in a positive light. In fact, incorrect information nearly always casts the subject in a negative light. Someone saying "the MacBook Pro is the greatest laptop ever" doesn't need to be "corrected" because that's a subjective opinion.
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There are always negatives t
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If you're a user of a product by choice, you probably believe the positives outweigh the negatives, one would hope, so naturally you're going to have less negative things to say about it in general.
I can't believe there's this many comments on this story but nobody has mentioned cognitive dissonance [wikipedia.org] yet. It's a powerful force.
I mention it in relation to your comment about product choice, because studies have shown that once people have chosen a product, they look for evidence to support their choice, or give greater credence to marginal advantages of one product over another, and even avoid lines of inquiry that might show that choice to have been a mistake. Which sounds like a fanboy to me :-)
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Usually, if you point out an error about Macs or Linux, or even Microsoft on slashdot and site a link you get modded informative.
I really don't believe you. So site some example posts, where you get more then 1 or 2 rude responses, when you point out something error or inaccuracy like you say.
There are a few idiots in the real world. And as you say they might post things about sex acts, but they get the flamebait treatment here. You can't honestly think that anyone
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I responded to two out of 14 comments; yours, and one other person's, both of whom specifically asked me a question. I don't care whether you or anyone else owns a Mac. That's the whole point of this discussion: I'm not trying to "convert" people, nor do I get pissed off when I find out someone doesn't have a Mac. Yet, I suppose now I don't know how to lighten up when I'm responding
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That's because you're posting on a Linux fanboy site.
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I think the group effect is fanboism even though the individuals may not be guilty.
It is pretty annoying though the way the Apple fanboys mod down any comment remotely critical. Rightly or wrongly, you might be associated with these people. People flame MS all the time and get modded "funny", but the exact same comments directed toward Apple make certain people genuinely upset.
Grammer Fan Boyz (Score:2, Funny)
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Holding nearly any "belief" of consequence requires coping with and resolving the tension created by the criticism of those who do not hold that belief. If there isn't a good way to criticize something, I don't really think it's much of a belief... just a fact.
Sure, there is such a thing as "blind faith," and it is not particularly endorsed by many religious people with a strong history of study in their faith. For example, Jesus promoted a rigor of discovery modeled after "ask, seek, knock," indicating
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Hardly. (Score:5, Interesting)
Sony is hardly "the little guy". In other words, fanboyism exists at all levels of the market.
Let's talk psychology (Score:5, Insightful)
The fanboy is fixated, a product of the Skinner box of technology. They find a particular product/service to be so useful, so much like what they have always wanted (read: reinforcing), that the idea that there is anything different/better out there is inconceivable. Also, deprive them of their fixation, and they go into withdrawals.
The fixation is unhealthy and limiting. People with fixations are frequently unable to adapt to changes in their environment. They cling to a thing even after that thing ceases to bring them the comfort/serenity that it first did. They will viciously attack anyone who disparages they chosen tool, unable to see the light of even the most cogent argument.
I've personally never let an individual piece of technology/software or service consume me. Some are nice, some are useful, some are downright cool. But this is the Internet Age -- if you wait five minutes, something new and better will invariably come along. If you don't allow yourself to be open to new ideas and ways of thinking, you're bound to be left behind.
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That's the exact reason I hit F5 every five minutes.
And I mean every five minutes.
Validation (Score:2)
Oh Yeah... Linux rocks.
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Yeah, but I'm not about to pick a product/service based on the zealotry of some users; what I need is quality information, a breakdown of the good and bad points, which everything has. Screaming from the top of your lungs how great something is doesn't inspire confidence in me, especially when you ask about limitations/problems and are shouted down for even suggesting there might be any. The fact that the "fanboy" is going to claim victory just because I did my own cost-benefit analysis and decided to use t
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I think that many fanbois sound more like they're a product of the Stockholm Syndrome box of psychology. They justify and excuse the shortcomings of their platform, thanks to all the history and resources they've invested in their product of choice.
Sure, Microsoft has been influential in the industry thanks to many circumstances, but fanbois resent all the negativity about the glaring shortcomings. You can swap "Microsoft" for Linux, Apple, OS/2, Sony, Grateful Dead, America, and the Democratic Party,
Fanboy: Possibly the most abused term ever (Score:5, Interesting)
Unfortunately, there's a growing trend of abuse in relation to the term. More and more I'm hearing *real* fanboys preemptively use the term to discount others. For example, any true fan of a game system should be willing to acknowledge its faults as well as its strengths. I very much enjoy my Nintendo Wii, but I know that its low cost came at the expense of raw horsepower. That doesn't bother me. Similarly, PS3 fans should be willing to acknowledge that their system is incredibly expensive (in comparison to the rest of the market) and that there is a fairly small game library at the moment.
Yet what I regularly hear is the PS3 fanboys jump in and yell, "Anyone who likes the Wii is a Nintendo fanboy! After all, how could you not like a $600 Bluray player! The game system is FREE!" Or something to that effect, anyway.
This constitutes an outright abuse of the term. Now I'll admit that it doesn't help the situation that many Wii fans (and even worse: fanboys) don't like Sony or their business practices. So they tend to cheer on any difficulties that the company may be having. (I'll even admit to this myself. I don't want Sony around if they're going to install rootkits, shut down distributors, sell exploding parts, ignore customer service, or the billion other anti-consumer things they've done of late.) That still doesn't justify the abuse.
Similarly, a lot of Windows users are simply familiar with what they are used to. So they're not so much as fanatical themselves, they're just highly resistant to solid logic that's often used by the Mac community. They're also quite used to the Mac users of yore, who were very much fanboys. (I'm sorry, Mac OS 8 was NOT that great of an OS.) So they also abuse the term in an attempt to get people to stop pestering them about how much better the Mac is. They're comfortable, so they don't want to be bothered. Sometimes they even become a sort of inverse fanboy in that they hang onto ever possible wrong they see with the opposition. (Case in point: Java is slow.) Never mind if it's still true or not. It was once at least sort of true, so that's good enough.
So next time you think of using the term "fanboy", think for a moment. You may be abusing the term and making yourself look bad at the same time.
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Shit, it wasn't any worse than Windows 95!
(Not that either of them were great...)
The elephant in the room (Score:2)
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So true.
There are so many fundamentalist libertarians around here, it makes me sick.
Inverse Fanboy (Score:2, Insightful)
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Or country
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My fanboyism is really just that I see people wasting money on software they don't need. I have colleagues that end up stressing about their kids computers getting viruses etc and having to deal with spyware and all that crap, and I try to pitch Ubuntu and will usually burn them an ISO for them to try.
I'll 'fanboy' just about anything I think is great.... But I do try hard to temper the 'sell' so
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Solid logic. I'm not sure why some people assume that if they have in their possession "solid logic" they have a license to annoy the rest of the world until it's converted.
Apple specifically, they don't run a computer business. They run a cult. People don't have anything against Apple's technolog
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Fanboys do marketing huh... (Score:4, Interesting)
Right, here's the kind of reactions [thebestpag...iverse.net] the marketing of a group of unstoppable fanboys achieve.
I too am someone who witnessed the sad transformation of a Windows/Linux guy into a Mac fanboy. Now every little problem I have on my computer, be it slow connection, or program hang, or WHATEVER, serves as a reason that I should be constantly reminded "how much I need a Mac".
"Man, you SO need a Mac!"
"Shit, dude, you gotta get a Mac."
"Macs are sooo cool, let's find you a Mac."
Everything on a Mac is godly and I apparently and struggling to survive without that on my Windows system. Even shadows! How the heck can I work without shadows behind my windows?! Impossible.
I'm suspecting that when you sum up the total of positive and negative effects of rabid fanboys defending their limited view on the world, the picture isn't nice. I'm sure there are people who will despise Mac and Linux without ever seen them, just because of the overly zealous fanboys that nagged them incessantly.
You gotta be kidding me (Score:5, Insightful)
How, exactly, did this trolling article make it to the top of the Firehose? Have we become Digg while I was sleeping?
Man, I must be new here.
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Fan Boys = people who cant admit to mistakes (Score:3, Interesting)
Who isn't a fanboy? (Score:5, Insightful)
Finally, I know a guy who is as close to a luddite as you can get..no computer, no tv, just a regular phone and a radio for electronics. Prefers reading to everything else and doesn't give a whiz about what bike he rides, what clothes he buys, anything; whatever's on sale and fits he gets. But if you ask what he's reading, he'll say he's reading Grapes of Wrath for the umpteenth time and then he'll talk your ear off about how Steinbeck is the only good writer America ever produced, and on and on for an hour or more. So that makes him a Steinbeck fanboy, doesn't it?
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Absolutely! Someone who ties his self-image to a motorcycle he went into the shop and bought is every bit as pathetic as some nerd who does the same with electronics or entertainment industry products. I'd be less likely to tell the biker that to his face, but that's not the same thing. Anyway, nowadays someone who even owns a motorcycle is less lame than the guys sticking Orange County Choppe
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Money (Score:5, Insightful)
Cheering for sports teams? (Score:5, Funny)
And in keeping with the tradition of analogies on
Apple hardware is like the Yankees, someone paid far too much and got so little.
Either way, both the Yankees and Apple suck.
Yours Truly,
Curt Shilling
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D'oh! You should've used a CAR analogy you insensitive clod!
Under-represented aspects: (Score:2, Redundant)
Sometimes a company likes to promote the idea that they actually have a fan base (you know, to generate 'buzz', stomp bad opinions against them, etc etc). See also Microsoft (though they are hardly alone in this). Incidentally, political figures and ideologies have a good parallel in fanboys and astroturfing as well.
Trolls?
Sometimes it can be (at least in my case years ago, it used to be) great fun to go in and advocate for The Other Side (tm), just to see what folks would do with it. Som
Slashdot: Stuff that matters? (Score:2, Interesting)
Ah, that feels better.
(Sorry for the random CAPS, the lameness filter told me "Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.", well I was trying to yell, thank you very much).
Or, in less nerdy terms... (Score:2)
Hardcore fans have their team. THEIR team. Armchair coaching while watching the game, collecting memorabilia, indoctorinating others with how awesome his team is and, if they're doing less than awesome, it's because of external influences and not lack of awesomeness.
Kind of like those "Da Bears" sketches on SNL.
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Hardcore fans have their team. THEIR team. Armchair coaching while watching the game, collecting memorabilia, indoctorinating others with how awesome his team is and, if they're doing less than awesome, it's because of external influences and not lack of awesomeness.
Well yeah, but aren't these sorts of people idiots? I remember reading Byte ma
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I would disagree with the idea that everyone should only buy from the company that has the absolute best tech at that moment. As you said, one side would win. Sometimes Intel is the best, sometimes AMD is the best. The problem is that if no one bought AMD when they were not #1, there would be no AMD, and Intel would not get better. So, perhaps, sometimes, fanboys do us all some good by keeping a company afloat during the hard times. Whether their propping up of crappy products f
The term should be Zealot. (Score:3, Insightful)
I think part of it is defending your choice. People like to be right so if you bought a Wii instead of a PS3 you can feel that you are better or smarter than those that bought a PS3. If you bought a PS3 you might feel that people are insulating you be cause they are taking such glee in the lack luster sales of the PS3 so you defend it.
Frankly I find it depressing that people are now identifying themselves with some marketing juggernaut like Sony, Apple, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, and or Nintendo in place of some spiritual or ethical framework. Oh and before anyone makes some comment about killing for religion how many people got shot or hurt trying to get a PS3?
"It benefits a man not, too sell his soul for the whole world, but for a gaming console..."
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I make my livelihood on a Mac. It's in my best interest to advocate for it. Same with Firefox and Textmate and Unix.
But why folks fight over game consoles is beyond me. There can't be that many professional gamers out there.
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This doesn't hold for areas where the competition is mainly for implementation of an existing format. In those cases, you don't get nearly as much fanboyism for particular implementations. Also, you don't get as much fanboyism for the generic product. It seems to make sense intuitively, but I'd be interested to learn why that is.
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So if Linux declines in popularity move to a new OS. If the Wii doesn't get all the game you want then buy a 360 or PS3 when the price comes down.
Heck I have a GC, PS2, Wii, and a Dreamcast. They are all a lot of fun and I got them all cheap.
Only the GC is now useless.
Your vested interest is only the cost of a console or in the case of Li
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Why defend your choice? Why should you have to
Per-product, not by company (Score:2)
Fantasy fundamentalism league for America (Score:2)
But, we have no religion to grasp onto, no AK-47s to shoot, or civilian areas to blow up. So we improvise in a capitalist society. We grasp on to our favorite video game console, car, team, or whatever sellable good/brand. We discuss and agree with others that have made the same purchase we do. We fight with others against who bought a competing product. Our symbols(Ch
Round our way... (Score:2)
More interesting the psych of the labelers... (Score:3, Insightful)
People would label me a unix or mac fanboy depend on the individual comment, but it not because I have a particular attitude about those things, no religious zealotry, no overarchign RMS-philosophy, just that those tools do what I need done. If I ever needed a windows machine, or a PS3, or whatever. I would by one... It has just never come up as an issue. The non-fanboy can't accept that though.. in general...
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Article summary misleading (Score:3, Informative)
Where's the point about justifying your choices? (Score:2)
I've always felt that, at least for some, rabid and rapid defense of something is a sign of personal need to justify one's choices. Perhaps I just spent a good chunk of money on a console or a laptop. Perhaps I think I'm okay financially for it, but, deep down, I'm a tad nervous as most large ticket purchases probably do to many folks. And I can't return it. Then I go online and see just how horribly ill-sighted my choice was, in the foaming, state
Apropos cartoons here: (Score:2)
Not always a "fanboy" (Score:2)
For example, people here are quick to call Walt Mossberg (tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal) biased for Apple -- a fanboy, because he has given good ratings to a lot of Apple products. But, when I read the columns, I see them as taking care to fully analyze the
See also (Score:3, Funny)
Amiga Persecution Complex [catb.org]
Signed,
idontgno
former Amiga fanboi
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Case in point [slashdot.org]
My esteemed and learned colleagues, who is the fanboy in this frame of reference? The nebulous "Nintendo fanboys" of which the anonymous poster speaks, or the poster himself trying to fanatically put down an entire group? Certainly, there does not seem to be any of these "Nintendo fanboys" present to defend themselves. Yet the AC is contributing to the general impression of "fanboyism" (if you'll forgive the term) against this def
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Sorry, dude (Score:2)
Sorry, man. Slashdot had its sense of humor surgically removed a couple of years ago.