Category: the Rant Board
Now, this is by no means directed at everyone or even you, the Apple fanboy / fangirl reading this page right now. This is just an observation I've been mulling over for
a good bit of time.
Having attended a few trade shows, as well as frequenting the local trendy clubs here and there, I have noticed a horrifyingly similar pattern: A lot of Apple
fanboys / fangirls are really, really awkward.
I'm not talking in the "Oh, he laughs at inappropriate things" or "She wears clothes that don't match" awkward. I'm talking the kind of awkward that involves
"I don't think he realizes people don't want to see him conspicuously watching a movie on his iPad, propped up on his chest, while doing crunches," or "Why is it so important for him that all the airline attendant staff see his big beautiful iPad," or "The only topic she knows how to discuss with people is
how fabulous she thinks all Apple products, and people who exclusively use Apple products are" awkward. Or even the "I'm not sure she knows how to make a call on anything but an iPhone" type of awkward. Or, finally, the
"He seems to think telling people about his conversion from Windows to Mac, and his acquisition and display of various other Appel apparel and accessories is good conversation" kind of awkward.
If you find yourself in one of the above categories, please don't be offended. Don't be hurt or feel singled out or anything like that. Don't do anything,
in fact, but stop the behavior. Please. You're making the rest of us look bad by perpetuating a stereotype and you're making everyone around you uncomfortable.
Remember: If what you say or do results in the person or people around you stopping whatever they're saying and going "... Oh God, not another one ...." and seeming to be
at a loss for a reply, chances are, you are not being socially appropriate. Plan accordingly and realize that just because you and the other people you
know from Cupidtino.com think it's normal, there is a small chance it might not actually be appropriate in public.
Thank you.
I will never understand fandom of any kind, and techie fandom is one of the worst. They kind of remind me of people who, I suppose, want to make it a point that they wear clothes by whatever hip brand names or whatever. I've never used an Apple product, save for an Apple IIe years ago, so I can't say anything much about the current run of Apple thingies. But anyway, yeah, conspicuous fandom.
Can we just ban social awkwardness? If I see anothe rthread about it I'm going to come on here for a day and be as socially awkward as I can!
Wow, this is actually a pretty good topic. Doing crunches with an iPad in his arms? I've just gotta laugh at that one. I mean, I love Apple products myself, and I think they're great, but come on. Apple is just another computer company that is in competition with Microsoft. It's not like Apple is a special company that is in the form of a God. lol
I wonder if I'm liable for copyright infringement by copying and doing variable substitutions off the other thread.
Sorry Senior if that title offended you, I just took real examples from real life and used the other thread as a sort of design model, as it were.
Any of you checked out the above site?
And I've deployed on to Mac desktops as well as PC, and most Apple users are just normal people, at least at work. It's just the fanboys / fangirls give them a bad name.
The "apple religion" as I refer to it is one of the reasons I really get turned off by apple and associated things. Not that I absolutely would refuse to own a product by them, but. Makes me cringe even so.
Well if you ever do use an Apple product, be prepared to be stopped and congratulated on how you're not like all the "other Apple users out there," and ooh what stories they'll tell you about encounters with these fanboys / fangirls.
At least you'll have Cupitino.com as a resource to see how much of it is all made up.
i know apple has great products, no one can basicly deny that. however, the fans, or rather, the followers make me mad. they treate everyone who use windows' pc, or a normal mobile phone like an alion. its very intimidating to get close with them. apple's fans have become somewhat a trand to be. people uses apple's product most time not because of the products itself, but, because of so much so as a statement to be in that so call "apple coomunity" just to be different from the rest
Apple has done some really good things, but yes, I can see why people would get a bit bored talking about it all the time. Apple fans are not the only people to do this, however. I've known people who are obsessed with technology in general, or other such things.
there's always people who will do that waith almost any type of technology, it's not just an apple thing. Sure i'm really happy with the apple devices i have, my mac and my touch but i don't parade them around.
The "apple world" is, I fear, most stuck up indeed. We get it, you hate windows...deal with it, Microsoft is in your face!
The thing is, where would we be without Microsoft? Microsoft is Apple's competitor. Though I do like Apple better than Microsoft for various reasons, these two companies are great companies, so of course there has to be competition between one another. Yes, it's an awesome thing that us Apple fans like the iPhones, iPod touches, and Macs, but don't bash people just because they don't use them. Either they can't afford to buy one of those Apple products, or they just flat out don't like them. Common sense there.
From a business prospective, I think Apple has done an awesome job selling it's brand. While the whole fan boy thing is a bit annoying, I still have to applaud Apple for it's marketing. Take the iPad for example, a product that makes very little sense to me, yet it's already sold over a million units in the first month. FOlks buy it, because it bares the name.
Does anyone remember about 7 years ago the Dell craze. Every other commercial on tv and radio was "dude you're getting a dell". I did computer sales at the time for a local computer company and no matter where we went in the country, if you couldn't sell dell products, which was impossible at the time as dell only sold direct, you couldn't even get in the door. Moreover, no matter what kind of prices or features you could offer, it wasn't a "dell" so it wasn't good enough. OUr memory wasn't as good as dells, our hard drives weren't as big, our support wasn't as good ETC ETC.
Obviously that eventually died down, and this will pass as well.
To understand Apple's recent marketing, one must understand the iPod and iTunes.
Before either of those products,Apple was restricted to an ivory tower of users in academia and of course their fanboy / religious followers. However, the best marketing tactic ever was to place a piece of software (using that term loosely), iTunes, on PCs across the globe.
Their market? Teenagers, particularly teenage girls. Well teens and pre-teens. The iPod came out in a series of colors when most MP3 players at the time were in black or gray. Never mind that the black iPod was the most popular seller. And even dads like me who are also technology people bought our daughters the expensive iPods then.
Nobody knew (outside of technology folk), what an mp3 was, let alone a portable music player. They were all iPods whether made by Apple or not. So the users never knew they were being introduced to software on the desktop. Even early iTunes software with all its problems and its inability to reject USB devices properly, was an introduction. The frog boiled slowly in water metaphor, as old as that is, works as well for Apple today as it did for others in the past.
Combine that with the modern X86 (that's Intel-based) architecture for newer Apple hardware, and now you don't have to wonder if your printer works with your Mac. So now more people can get a Mac, and voilá, it looks .... kinda like iTunes.
I have a hunch that their desire to maintain government contracts - the largest of their enterprise market - had more to do with accessibility / Voiceover than anything else. In other words, sorry to burst the blind fanboy bubble, as soon as those laws get repealed, and Bill oReilly gets on fox and celebrates that America is no longer "protecting those in the blind lifestyle," Apple will quit. When it's no longer popular to think about accessibility, aka when the trend passes by, they'll move on to another market. As we used to say in college: The "save the whales" people may make the whales secure for now, but as soon as whales are no longer trendy / spiritual / feel good animals, the harpooneers will be back in action.
It's all trend, and who knows: Maybe with the modern dog-lovie trends we see, the Apple people will develop a Mac for people's pooches. Until, of course, pooches are no longer trendy.
we can't deny that Apple has come a long way with it's products, and the assessability achieve. but when you think about it, why one must get a mp3 player that is more expendsive than most, and only can be sinc with it's own media player (ITunes)?
i've few IFriends (well, apple user) but, they might not meet the category as this topic present. yes, they have the passion for Apple's products, but, they aint idolise apple untill the point that you feel anoying about them, and wanting to get rid of them so you won't heard about how great this and that Apple is.
it seems to come to my attention lately, those that idolise Apple products, more likely are those who aren't expert themselves, owning an Apple product seems to this type of people are more a statement, than the real usability of it.
Apple procucts seem to be mutually exclusive though I believe many of the stuff is starting to become cross platform.
Wow the intent of this topic seems to have gone right over the heads of most of you lol and no, its not only because you told me! Haha! Just lets all mind our own business, k? The moral of the story is if you want the world around you to change, change yourself.
Laughing, hard.
Robo, you are honestly one of my favorite people on the Zone.
No I got the idea behind this post lol. Just playing along.
I hate this, I hate that. He smells, she spits in public, bla bla bla. lol.