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You are proof that they have created the greatest marketing machine the world has ever known. You are vociferously arguing that Apple is great. They don't pay y

You are proof that they have created the greatest marketing machine the world has ever known. You are vociferously arguing that Apple is great. They don't pay you or tell you to do it, you just do it. This army of fans is the greatest marketing coup ever. You have argued the other guy off the page! (although more from passion rather than the argument itself) I'm sure you will keep arguing with anyone else who comments on this. It goes well beyond the simple 'they make great products and I appreciate that' mantra. No one worshiped Henry Ford or his company (imo Apple's closest historical analog). No one is sticking with Yahoo through their tough times (like they did with Apple in the 90's). Apple has turned you into a religious zealot.

nirvana 15y ago
Rational people always seem like religious zealots to religious zealots like you. The sad thing is, for the past two decades, Apple customers have been just sitting there doing their thing, happy with their products. Yet whenever Apple is mentioned, the religious zealots come out of the wood work to bash Apple and to bash these people. This thread is a good example, in fact HN is overrun with threads whose sole purpose is to bash Apple, because HN is overrun with religious zealots who hate Apple. When Apple was the small fry, this was really curious. I mean, what was it about Apple that caused religious zealots -- who are not Apple customers-- to seek out Apple customers and bash them? Why feel so threatened that a company near bankruptcy dares to make something different? Finally I came to understand why. The reason is that deep down, you know Apple products are better. IF you didn't' think that, why would you be threatened by people who think different? Now that Apple is successful-- because its products are better-- the bashing has changed from "Apple's nothing they have %2 market share!" (When they actually had %25 market share in PCs) to "Apple's evil! They want to control everything, they're worse than Microsoft!" (which is kinda hilarious coming from google loving zealots-- google has betrayed people's trust, google is genuinely evil, while Apple has never cheated or lied to anyone that I'm aware of.) And of course, because you're completely out of your mind irrational with hatred, you can't accept the fact that it is you who has a problem-- you who is seeking out peaceful apple customers minding their own business. No, you must project your pathology onto them, and start calling them "cultists" and "religious zealots" and all manner of pejoratives like that. Because, lying about Apple products, bashing Apple the company, spiting on Steve Jobs' grave-- these are not enough. No, you must attack the people who dared to choose to be customers of Apple as well. All those people you think are religious zealots-- if you look at what they say, and try real hard to be honest about it-- you'll recognize that all they're doing is correcting myths, misinformation and outright lies. That's it. You don't see us posting threads to HN for the sole purpose of bashing google or linux zealots.

nirvana 15y ago

Rational people always seem like religious zealots to religious zealots like you. The sad thing is, for the past two decades, Apple customers have been just sitting there doing their thing, happy with their products. Yet whenever Apple is mentioned, the religious zealots come out of the wood work to bash Apple and to bash these people. This thread is a good example, in fact HN is overrun with threads whose sole purpose is to bash Apple, because HN is overrun with religious zealots who hate Apple. When Apple was the small fry, this was really curious. I mean, what was it about Apple that caused religious zealots -- who are not Apple customers-- to seek out Apple customers and bash them? Why feel so threatened that a company near bankruptcy dares to make something different? Finally I came to understand why. The reason is that deep down, you know Apple products are better. IF you didn't' think that, why would you be threatened by people who think different? Now that Apple is successful-- because its products are better-- the bashing has changed from "Apple's nothing they have %2 market share!" (When they actually had %25 market share in PCs) to "Apple's evil! They want to control everything, they're worse than Microsoft!" (which is kinda hilarious coming from google loving zealots-- google has betrayed people's trust, google is genuinely evil, while Apple has never cheated or lied to anyone that I'm aware of.) And of course, because you're completely out of your mind irrational with hatred, you can't accept the fact that it is you who has a problem-- you who is seeking out peaceful apple customers minding their own business. No, you must project your pathology onto them, and start calling them "cultists" and "religious zealots" and all manner of pejoratives like that. Because, lying about Apple products, bashing Apple the company, spiting on Steve Jobs' grave-- these are not enough. No, you must attack the people who dared to choose to be customers of Apple as well. All those people you think are religious zealots-- if you look at what they say, and try real hard to be honest about it-- you'll recognize that all they're doing is correcting myths, misinformation and outright lies. That's it. You don't see us posting threads to HN for the sole purpose of bashing google or linux zealots.