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It’s not just Apple. The same dynamic plays out with most other hyped technologies. Apple’s fans may demonstrate this behavior most clearly, but cults of sycoph

It’s not just Apple. The same dynamic plays out with most other hyped technologies. Apple’s fans may demonstrate this behavior most clearly, but cults of sycophants exist for many different companies: Microsoft, Tesla, Google, … this list never ends.

PedroBatista 4y ago
Agree, Apple is the poster child, Tesla a close second because it targets most of the same people and markets. I still remember when Satya Nadella went "all-in" with Linux and Open Source, the whole "running Linux on Windows", etc. Many people went nuts and in a matter of months Microsoft was the hot new "hip" company. Which anyone looking into Microsoft's business for 5min would laugh at all that non-sense. Just an example: MS makes around 2 billion dollars every year in software patents/royalties, and the list of Microsoft being Microsoft goes on. My point is: This behavior is something more to do with the people than the companies themselves, they mostly cater and exploit it.
- criddell 4y ago
  There are some pretty good reasons for wanting big parts of the status quo to remain. I bet if you took a few minutes, you could think of a few of them and that might give you a better understanding of why some of your tech friends are worried about Apple being forced to change.
rootusrootus 4y ago
> Apple’s fans may demonstrate this behavior most clearly I think that changed years ago. The iPhone made Apple very mainstream, which dilutes the fanboy effect considerably. Tesla fans are much, much worse at this point. I say that as a two-time (and current) Tesla owner who is decidedly not a Tesla fanboy (and in fact going the opposite direction a little more every day). > this list never ends The list is different for everyone. Everyone thinks their own choices are the only rational ones.
threeseed 4y ago
> cults of sycophants I think people like yourself should be more thoughtful more about why these products are so popular. Instead of reducing these people who may simply like their products to being cult members who can't make educated, independent choices.

PedroBatista 4y ago

Agree, Apple is the poster child, Tesla a close second because it targets most of the same people and markets. I still remember when Satya Nadella went "all-in" with Linux and Open Source, the whole "running Linux on Windows", etc. Many people went nuts and in a matter of months Microsoft was the hot new "hip" company. Which anyone looking into Microsoft's business for 5min would laugh at all that non-sense. Just an example: MS makes around 2 billion dollars every year in software patents/royalties, and the list of Microsoft being Microsoft goes on. My point is: This behavior is something more to do with the people than the companies themselves, they mostly cater and exploit it.

criddell 4y ago
There are some pretty good reasons for wanting big parts of the status quo to remain. I bet if you took a few minutes, you could think of a few of them and that might give you a better understanding of why some of your tech friends are worried about Apple being forced to change.

rootusrootus 4y ago

> Apple’s fans may demonstrate this behavior most clearly I think that changed years ago. The iPhone made Apple very mainstream, which dilutes the fanboy effect considerably. Tesla fans are much, much worse at this point. I say that as a two-time (and current) Tesla owner who is decidedly not a Tesla fanboy (and in fact going the opposite direction a little more every day). > this list never ends The list is different for everyone. Everyone thinks their own choices are the only rational ones.

threeseed 4y ago

> cults of sycophants I think people like yourself should be more thoughtful more about why these products are so popular. Instead of reducing these people who may simply like their products to being cult members who can't make educated, independent choices.