The fanboy thing is so tired. Just because you like a product, doesn't make you a 'fanboy'. At the end of the day, the crappiest smart phone on the market today, would seem like sorcery 10 years ago, and we would be talking about it like it was the greatest thing ever.
I have a macbook air and my iPhone sitting on my desk syncing at work the other day. And some moron I work with who may very well be reading this, comes in my office and "Holy Apple fanboy!" and starts giving me a 10 minute unsolicited lecture about Android specs, Macbook specs, over priced Apple products, SSD specs, the corrupt Apple locked OS....blah blah blah. I. Do. Not. Care. What. You. Think. Go. Away. Period.
All I said was "And you are calling me the fanboy?".
I think what separates a loyal customer/non-fanboy, from a fanboy is this.
Non fanboy: Buys the product he likes, and doesn't care what you or anyone else thinks. Will tell you why he likes it, but at the same time doesn't care what you bought.
Fanboy: Buys the product he likes, and goes out of his way to tell you what a piece of crap your competing device is. Will go as far to insult you on a personal level to drive home his point. Acts as if your buying decision was made with his/her own money. In many cases, cannot afford and does not even own the device he defends or hates on.
It is even worse when fanboyism is on the corporate level. Mac vs. PC ads. and the "Hey Samsung S3 owners, lets go berate and insult the ######ed people that stand in line for an Apple iPhone commercials." Sell me your product on it's merits, not the deficiencies in the competitions.
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