My Rant to Apple Fanboys
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Whenever the topic “Apple” is discussed on the Internet, it will result in a flame war, no exceptions. This has become one of the commandments of the modern technology community. I myself usually don’t bother involving myself in these debates because I believe everyone has the right to use whatever they choose. However, there is one thing that really gets on my nerves, and has gotten on my nerves for the last few years. Finally, I’m writing this article to express my thoughts. Apple Fanboys – I’m giving you guys the guilty look.
Before we get started, let’s talk about my history with computers briefly. I’ve been using Windows as my primary and only OS until 2007. Because my computer wasn’t nearly powerful enough to switch to Windows Vista, I got myself an iMac out of sheer curiosity and used Mac OS X as my primary and only OS up to 2009. After Windows 7 released, I started dual-booting both OSs. My primary OS right now should be iOS, judging from a pure time perspective. That pretty much sums up my history with computer operating systems.
As a person who dual boots and has spent adequate amounts of time on both Worlds, I can say with confidence that both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard are very established and polished operating systems. Both have an abundance of applications, can do everything one would expect from a computer. Saying that one is superior to the other is completely based on personal preferences. It’s no secret that I prefer Mac OS X over Windows, but I can say that it’s purely opinion-based. Against a very knowledgable Windows user, I don’t expect to be able to hold up in a fight saying that Mac OS X is technologically superior to Windows, but I don’t think I’d lose either. They’re both very capable and well-designed. Arguing the superiority in the first place is a completely pointless topic with nothing to gain.
Now here is where I’m giving you the eye, you Apple fanboys.
“My Mac never crashes.” “Too bad you’re on a PC. Hur hur hur.” “Look at your bulky piece of rubbish. You have no taste in design.” “Viruses? Shame you’re using Windows.” “OS X runs so much better than Windows.” “I never freeze.” “HAHAHA, look at your BSOD! Bet you wish you had my Mac.” “Look at my iPhone. Can your phone do this?” I can go on, but I won’t. You know what I’m talking about.
You Apple fanboys, in reality, only make up quite a small amount of the entire userbase, but you are loud. Ever since Apple’s founding, you’ve always pushed their products, regardless whether they’re good or bad, radiating smugness at the same time. After all these years of bragging about Apple products, you’ve built up your reputation as the most annoying people to be found on the Internet. To be blunt, you are practically the /b/tards of the tech community.
See, I’ve been on a Mac for years. I have an iPhone and an iPad. My life pretty much revolves around them and I’m confident to say I use them more in a day than most fanboys use in 3 days. But do they crash? Do they encounter problems? Sure they do – just like any other tech products. If I switched from my iPhone to a Galaxy S, can it still fill the niches of my daily life as shown in that blog post? Of course it can.
Yes, a lot of Apple products are good products, and that’s why I use them, but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect, or so great that there are no other alternatives. You completely ignore that fact. You’re stuck inside Apple’s little circle that they refuse to embrace anything from the outside World. What’s even worse is, you’re lying to yourselves too.
If you truly owned Macs, you would be lying to say “I’ve never been frustrated by it”. When your friend brings his portable hard drive over, wanting to get some anime of you, and you have to boot to Windows just to copy some files, you know you’re cursing the Mac’s lack of NTFS write capability. When you watch a Flash video, and your fan goes crazy, you know you’re wishing Mac OS X supports Flash as good as Windows can. Stop denying the iPhone 4 doesn’t have a design fault – it does.
Honestly, stop lying to yourselves.
I can understand how you feel to an extent. I’m not stupid – I switched from Windows to Mac OS X because I like it better, and it is, in my opinion, the better operating system. The iPhone 4 is still a brilliant phone, regardless of signal problems. However, as much as I can sympathize with you, I can also tell you just how much you’re missing out, and how much damage you’re causing to your beloved company with your actions.
Indeed, every time Apple comes up with a new product, it gets flamed. Then you fanboys start to defend it. Then the flame war starts. You think you’re the heroes of justice? The fair ones defending the helpless, the one always getting picked on? Wrong. Apple is always getting picked on precisely because of you.
See, if you talk about how bad Windows is and radiate smugness every time you post on a forums, do you honestly think people won’t start hating you? It’s like scoring 100% in your exams. If you constantly brag about it and look down on people, isn’t it natural they’ll hate you, regardless of how well you do? What’s there to show off? If you get a 100%, then keep it to yourself. If you love your Mac, do you have to diss everyone who has Windows? You gain nothing from it, and in return, you not only make enemies for yourself, and also for Apple, the very company you’re sheltering, and protecting with your utmost efforts. No one would make fun of you if you suddenly got 99% if you hadn’t shown off so much. If you did show off, that’s another story. Does this sound familiar to you? Look at the iPhone 4.
The World outside of Apple is a vast and beautiful one. HTC makes some beautiful phones. Android may not have as many apps as iOS, nor are they polished as much, but it can do things your iPhone has never done before. There are so many more games available on Windows than Mac that you can’t play the difference in your lifetime. The iPhone and iPad are still the most developed mobile platform in our current market. Mac OS X offers a ton of slick user enhancements Windows doesn’t have, and has an abundance of beautiful apps. Why can’t you step out of your circle and embrace things aside from Apple? It’s not like you can’t go back – you’re just broadening your views. You don’t lose anything and there’s a whole new World to gain.
It’s time for the tech community to join hands again and put an end to this conflict. As lovers of technology, there’s no reason for us to fight over such a trivial matter. Buy Apple’s products if they’re good, but don’t preach it like it’s the gospel to save mankind. Take advantage of Apple, not the other way around. Apple is a commercial company – they make great products for the money. How about taking a first step today – and boot up with Windows for a week? You’ll be surprised at how good it is.
Original Post: http://imperialx.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/rant-to-apple-fanboys/
Before we get started, let’s talk about my history with computers briefly. I’ve been using Windows as my primary and only OS until 2007. Because my computer wasn’t nearly powerful enough to switch to Windows Vista, I got myself an iMac out of sheer curiosity and used Mac OS X as my primary and only OS up to 2009. After Windows 7 released, I started dual-booting both OSs. My primary OS right now should be iOS, judging from a pure time perspective. That pretty much sums up my history with computer operating systems.
As a person who dual boots and has spent adequate amounts of time on both Worlds, I can say with confidence that both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard are very established and polished operating systems. Both have an abundance of applications, can do everything one would expect from a computer. Saying that one is superior to the other is completely based on personal preferences. It’s no secret that I prefer Mac OS X over Windows, but I can say that it’s purely opinion-based. Against a very knowledgable Windows user, I don’t expect to be able to hold up in a fight saying that Mac OS X is technologically superior to Windows, but I don’t think I’d lose either. They’re both very capable and well-designed. Arguing the superiority in the first place is a completely pointless topic with nothing to gain.
Now here is where I’m giving you the eye, you Apple fanboys.
“My Mac never crashes.” “Too bad you’re on a PC. Hur hur hur.” “Look at your bulky piece of rubbish. You have no taste in design.” “Viruses? Shame you’re using Windows.” “OS X runs so much better than Windows.” “I never freeze.” “HAHAHA, look at your BSOD! Bet you wish you had my Mac.” “Look at my iPhone. Can your phone do this?” I can go on, but I won’t. You know what I’m talking about.
You Apple fanboys, in reality, only make up quite a small amount of the entire userbase, but you are loud. Ever since Apple’s founding, you’ve always pushed their products, regardless whether they’re good or bad, radiating smugness at the same time. After all these years of bragging about Apple products, you’ve built up your reputation as the most annoying people to be found on the Internet. To be blunt, you are practically the /b/tards of the tech community.
See, I’ve been on a Mac for years. I have an iPhone and an iPad. My life pretty much revolves around them and I’m confident to say I use them more in a day than most fanboys use in 3 days. But do they crash? Do they encounter problems? Sure they do – just like any other tech products. If I switched from my iPhone to a Galaxy S, can it still fill the niches of my daily life as shown in that blog post? Of course it can.
Yes, a lot of Apple products are good products, and that’s why I use them, but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect, or so great that there are no other alternatives. You completely ignore that fact. You’re stuck inside Apple’s little circle that they refuse to embrace anything from the outside World. What’s even worse is, you’re lying to yourselves too.
If you truly owned Macs, you would be lying to say “I’ve never been frustrated by it”. When your friend brings his portable hard drive over, wanting to get some anime of you, and you have to boot to Windows just to copy some files, you know you’re cursing the Mac’s lack of NTFS write capability. When you watch a Flash video, and your fan goes crazy, you know you’re wishing Mac OS X supports Flash as good as Windows can. Stop denying the iPhone 4 doesn’t have a design fault – it does.
Honestly, stop lying to yourselves.
I can understand how you feel to an extent. I’m not stupid – I switched from Windows to Mac OS X because I like it better, and it is, in my opinion, the better operating system. The iPhone 4 is still a brilliant phone, regardless of signal problems. However, as much as I can sympathize with you, I can also tell you just how much you’re missing out, and how much damage you’re causing to your beloved company with your actions.
Indeed, every time Apple comes up with a new product, it gets flamed. Then you fanboys start to defend it. Then the flame war starts. You think you’re the heroes of justice? The fair ones defending the helpless, the one always getting picked on? Wrong. Apple is always getting picked on precisely because of you.
See, if you talk about how bad Windows is and radiate smugness every time you post on a forums, do you honestly think people won’t start hating you? It’s like scoring 100% in your exams. If you constantly brag about it and look down on people, isn’t it natural they’ll hate you, regardless of how well you do? What’s there to show off? If you get a 100%, then keep it to yourself. If you love your Mac, do you have to diss everyone who has Windows? You gain nothing from it, and in return, you not only make enemies for yourself, and also for Apple, the very company you’re sheltering, and protecting with your utmost efforts. No one would make fun of you if you suddenly got 99% if you hadn’t shown off so much. If you did show off, that’s another story. Does this sound familiar to you? Look at the iPhone 4.
The World outside of Apple is a vast and beautiful one. HTC makes some beautiful phones. Android may not have as many apps as iOS, nor are they polished as much, but it can do things your iPhone has never done before. There are so many more games available on Windows than Mac that you can’t play the difference in your lifetime. The iPhone and iPad are still the most developed mobile platform in our current market. Mac OS X offers a ton of slick user enhancements Windows doesn’t have, and has an abundance of beautiful apps. Why can’t you step out of your circle and embrace things aside from Apple? It’s not like you can’t go back – you’re just broadening your views. You don’t lose anything and there’s a whole new World to gain.
It’s time for the tech community to join hands again and put an end to this conflict. As lovers of technology, there’s no reason for us to fight over such a trivial matter. Buy Apple’s products if they’re good, but don’t preach it like it’s the gospel to save mankind. Take advantage of Apple, not the other way around. Apple is a commercial company – they make great products for the money. How about taking a first step today – and boot up with Windows for a week? You’ll be surprised at how good it is.
Original Post: http://imperialx.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/rant-to-apple-fanboys/
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Also you can't install OSX on a home-built computer unless you resort to one of the hackintosh builds which aren't guaranteed to work perfectly whereas Windows and Linux can.
From a Google search I found out that you can write to NTFS drives but you need a NTFS driver like this one which is open source and is used on most Linux distros. I'm not sure on how good it works in Mac but I figure if it works in Linux then it should work in a Mac. I'm not positive but you may need MacFUSE first. Look at MacFUSE's wiki page as it is really informative. I just figured there had to be at least a few apple coders who were miffed by not being able to write to NTFS.
From a Google search I found out that you can write to NTFS drives but you need a NTFS driver like this one which is open source and is used on most Linux distros. I'm not sure on how good it works in Mac but I figure if it works in Linux then it should work in a Mac. I'm not positive but you may need MacFUSE first. Look at MacFUSE's wiki page as it is really informative. I just figured there had to be at least a few apple coders who were miffed by not being able to write to NTFS.
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Nachbar wrote...
From a Google search I found out that you can write to NTFS drives but you need a NTFS driver like this one which is open source and is used on most Linux distros. I'm not sure on how good it works in Mac but I figure if it works in Linux then it should work in a Mac. I'm not positive but you may need MacFUSE first. Look at MacFUSE's wiki page as it is really informative. I just figured there had to be at least a few apple coders who were miffed by not being able to write to NTFS.I do use MacFUSE. It's insanely slow. It's easier to boot to Windows. As of now, it's still not a real, usable solution. xD
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Wow, i have never agreed with a rant until now.
I grew up with Windows, but when the first Ipod came out i jumped to get it. I thought it was some impressive tech at the time. Few weeks later it broke, i did not have much cash to get another, so i settled for something a little cheaper--and you know what, it worked just as well as the Ipod.
the only time I got a new Ipod after that was during my 12th grade year in high school (Got a 2nd gen Ipod-shuffle with blue-tooth earphones. Got to listen to music all day! >;3)
My Point Is: I never Hated Apple, Most of there Products do come in handy, Its always been the Fanboys i hated. I hate the fact that now i can't go into a Bestbuy and look at a few PC parts without one of the Apple-Fanboys laughing at me or yelling at me that i should get the latest Macbook because its so shiny, or "all around better than windows or any other PC."
IF it was not for Apple, many of the products i love today would not be. Ex:
-Touchscreen Phones was around long before the Iphone, but did not become popular or as advanced until after the release of the Iphone.few years later i have an HTC-EVO and its Great!!
So i thank Apple for pushing other companies to do better and create great(er) products, but i hate the Apple-fans who always claim that "Apple did it first!!"
I agree with what ImpX said, If the fans would Shut the hell up about Apples products and try not to shove them down everyone's necks, than maybe, just maybe more people would give Apple products a chance.
^___^
I grew up with Windows, but when the first Ipod came out i jumped to get it. I thought it was some impressive tech at the time. Few weeks later it broke, i did not have much cash to get another, so i settled for something a little cheaper--and you know what, it worked just as well as the Ipod.
the only time I got a new Ipod after that was during my 12th grade year in high school (Got a 2nd gen Ipod-shuffle with blue-tooth earphones. Got to listen to music all day! >;3)
My Point Is: I never Hated Apple, Most of there Products do come in handy, Its always been the Fanboys i hated. I hate the fact that now i can't go into a Bestbuy and look at a few PC parts without one of the Apple-Fanboys laughing at me or yelling at me that i should get the latest Macbook because its so shiny, or "all around better than windows or any other PC."
IF it was not for Apple, many of the products i love today would not be. Ex:
-Touchscreen Phones was around long before the Iphone, but did not become popular or as advanced until after the release of the Iphone.few years later i have an HTC-EVO and its Great!!
So i thank Apple for pushing other companies to do better and create great(er) products, but i hate the Apple-fans who always claim that "Apple did it first!!"
I agree with what ImpX said, If the fans would Shut the hell up about Apples products and try not to shove them down everyone's necks, than maybe, just maybe more people would give Apple products a chance.
^___^
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ImperialX wrote...
It's strange how this thread has +3 Rep and the other one doesn't have any. Sigh...xDI think that is because the hatred against Apple is from a very vocal minority of the PC community. I have found that the percentage of Apple haters to be much lower than the percentage of Apple fanboys. I am sure a lot of this is due to the vast difference in the number of people that use each system. I would be more than willing to bet that a lot of the Apple haters out there bashing OSX or the various Apple computers have either an iPod or an iPhone or both. It's Hypocrisy at it's best.
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Masterwolf wrote...
ImperialX wrote...
It's strange how this thread has +3 Rep and the other one doesn't have any. Sigh...xDI think that is because the hatred against Apple is from a very vocal minority of the PC community. I have found that the percentage of Apple haters to be much lower than the percentage of Apple fanboys. I am sure a lot of this is due to the vast difference in the number of people that use each system. I would be more than willing to bet that a lot of the Apple haters out there bashing OSX or the various Apple computers have either an iPod or an iPhone or both. It's Hypocrisy at it's best.
A lot of the "Apple fanboys" you see on the Internet are just haters in disguise, trying to make Apple users look bad. It's true, you know. For an experienced Apple user, you can easily tell when a person is bluffing.
It's a strange World we live in, eh? xD
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ImperialX wrote...
Masterwolf wrote...
ImperialX wrote...
It's strange how this thread has +3 Rep and the other one doesn't have any. Sigh...xDI think that is because the hatred against Apple is from a very vocal minority of the PC community. I have found that the percentage of Apple haters to be much lower than the percentage of Apple fanboys. I am sure a lot of this is due to the vast difference in the number of people that use each system. I would be more than willing to bet that a lot of the Apple haters out there bashing OSX or the various Apple computers have either an iPod or an iPhone or both. It's Hypocrisy at it's best.
A lot of the "Apple fanboys" you see on the Internet are just haters in disguise, trying to make Apple users look bad. It's true, you know. For an experienced Apple user, you can easily tell when a person is bluffing.
It's a strange World we live in, eh? xD
I kinda thought it would be like that. Funny, when you meet Apple users in real life, they aren't like the ones you see on the internet, just being total "fanboys". I guess haters can only bash on the internet.
