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Originally Posted by FanIn80
You know how whenever I say something about Apple, people just call me a fanboy and then ignore whatever I've said? I pretty much do the same thing with a few people here, but on the opposite side of the spectrum.
I don't know what it is about Apple that polarizes everyone so much. It's just a company that makes a bunch of products. I don't get why people who use them have to defend their use of them, and people who don't use them have to defend not using them.
I'd like to get my hands on something that examines the whole Apple phenomenon. I don't really have a lot of time to devote to it, mind you, but it really does intrigue me.
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I think that some of it can be blamed on flame wars from the past and the need to say "I told you so".
For years, Microsoft has had the stereotype of the huge, faceless, money grubbing monopoly that killed creativity for fun. The mac guys would always throw this in the face of the PC lover. Now that Apple is growing and making some questionable decisions, the PC dudes are all over it. Both sides are as guilty as the other though.
It would actually be really interesting to go back 5 or 10 years and compare the debates to today.