Why are Apple fanboys usually complete and utter ****? And what are other ....

redblaze

And what are other industry's equivalents?

What is the car industry's equivalent of an Apple fanboy for example?

And the first question; Why are Apple fanboys usually complete and utter ****? I'm not talking about people who own iPhones and like them, I'm one of them myself because I got it for free, I'm talking about these strange and highly wankerish fanboys

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Apple%20Fanboy

Apple Fanboy

1. A person who believes in almost anything that apple says and gives into it's marketing strategy.

2. A prime target for apple marketers to impose their superfluously costing products to.

3. A person who honestly believes that Windows is archaic, Inferior, Does Not Work, or just plain ripped off ideas from the Mac OS.

4. One who waits in line for days in some instances, for Apple keynote speeches.

5. One who believes adding an "i" prefix to anything is automatically superior to anything that does not have an "i" in front of it.

Collie D

I've yet to meet one of these Apple ****. I have a couple of friends who love their Apple gadgets and have the latest phones, iPods, accessories, watch, etc. but they're both perfectly normal.

One probably just has too much disposable income, likes his gadgets and just thinks Apple make the best. Another works for them and presumably gets big discounts and/or freebies.

Nothing wrong with liking a particular product or brand.

Hector Bellend

fanboys.

shouldnt that be fannyboys

McMurphy

Hector Bellend wrote: »

fanboys.

shouldnt that be fannyboys

Made in Thailand.

super_furry

When do the schools go back again?

Oafley Jones

Telsa fanboys are much worse. I do think the Apple crowd have started to calm down a bit over the last few years.

Fr_Dougal

2/10

Even worse than your ‘Dublin is a kip’ thread.

DontThankMe

I do like apples but oranges are best.

Harry Palmr

Prius would have been the answer about 10 years ago "I'm saving the world donchta know"!?" Now its probably Tesla owners.

Poor Uncle Tom

Yawn........... not even worth getting the bloody popcorn....

Captain Red Beard

I know some people who only drive Volkswagen, others who only run in Adidas, others who only chop their meat n veg with victorinox knives. Some folk only drink Guinness, I've met dog lovers who have only ever had Cocker Spaniels. Once I met a chap who wouldn't eat any other crisp but Walkers, he was a **** though.
It's hardly exclusive to phones.

Capt'n Midnight

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Prius would have been the answer about 10 years ago "I'm saving the world donchta know"!?" Now its probably Tesla owners.

95% of lithium batteries aren't recycled.

WoollyRedHat

They like to be whipped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLozbfgjMg

super_furry

Tesla fanboys are weird alright. They're like a baying horde just waiting to pounce on anyone who isn't under the loving embrace of their lord and saviour Elon Musk.

hatrickpatrick

redblaze wrote: »

3. A person who honestly believes that Windows is archaic, Inferior, Does Not Work, or just plain ripped off ideas from the Mac OS.

If you're in the multimedia industry, this used to be true. Apparently Windows has caught up massively, but in the time of XP/Vista, OS X had one major advantage - it generally recognised USB devices for "plug and play" without needing to scour the internet for sometimes obscure "drivers" when you'd connect a piece of equipment. How Apple achieved this incredible level of hardware compatibility, especially for music-related hardware, I'm not really sure - but for a long time, connecting a USB device on Windows opened that dreaded "Found New Hardware Wizard" which would at best take five minutes before it would let you use your gear, and at worst would fail to recognise it, leaving you to have to look online for manufacturer's drivers, or find a CD which might have come with the device. In contrast, generally speaking on Mac, if you were to plug in a USB-MIDI interface, a guitar pedal, a musical keyboard, an Audio I/O interface, a mixing desk etc - it would just mount it as an external device and applications which could use it could recognise it instantly and seamlessly, without the need to actually *install* anything at operating system level. Hell, I remember a time when even bog standard USB memory sticks would trigger that irritating "found new hardware" popup, while the equivalent version of OS X at the time would just instantly say "ah yeah, storage device. Here's a list of your files."

Stuff like that leaves lasting impressions, particularly if you first encounter it when you're an impatient teenager or stressed out college student with deadlines to meet. Why Apple was able to achieve this kind of compatibility and Windows really struggled with it in the 2000s and early 2010s, I'll never understand - but it fundamentally pushed me away from Windows as an aspiring music producer.

Wibbs

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Why Apple was able to achieve this kind of compatibility and Windows really struggled with it in the 2000s and early 2010s, I'll never understand

I can tell you it was way worse in the 90's long before OSX and USB. Windows at best was "Plug and Pray" and a bloody torture to add on devices or even simple stuff like printers and scanners. Networking for non nerds even worse. I recall back then watching a chap I know, a helluva programmer who knows his shizzle, fiddling with switches inside his PC to get it to connect to something or other. The same operation for me on a Mac was just plug it in click something in the OS and it would (generally) just work. Back in the early noughties a PC magazine did a little experiment where they gave a ten year old kid a new iMac and a computer techie a new Dell and the kid got it up and running, connected to a printer and scanner and on the interwebs a good bit before the techie did.

Though how Apple did it was mostly obvious enough. They came from a different angle of ease of use for a start, that was their "thing", but most of all they controlled the hardware and software. So they built machines and OS's that could be much more easily compatible and complimentary. Peripherals manufacturers had to build their kit to Apple standards.

Microsoft had a much harder slog. And still do in many ways. They wrote an OS, grand so. Not exactly easy. Then they had to make that OS work on every iteration of every bloody oddball PC out there, from industry standard IBM kit to stuff nerds built in sheds with the latest bleeding edge stuff barely outa the lab. And that's before we get to peripherals. That Microsoft were and continue to be able to make their stuff work across all sorts of gear has always and continues to impress me.