I searched high and low for answers. The Bishop of Buckingham - who reads his Bible on an ipad - explained to me the similarities between Apple and a religion.
And when a team of neuroscientists with an MRI scanner took a look inside the brain of an Apple fanatic it seemed the bishop was on to something.
The results suggested that Apple was actually stimulating the same parts of the brain as religious imagery does in people of faith.
That is so awesome I think I just had a nerdgasm.
Cannot wait to show this to the Apple cultists I know.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Eh, maybe. I imagine criticizing a grandmaster chess player's game style or move choice might result in the same thing. And I can only imagine what every NFL quarterback has to hear from everyone the day after a game about what he should've done differently.
However, it seems you'd have an easier time getting the Pope to denounce Jesus than getting an Apple polisher to admit that, maybe, just maybe, his beloved company is run by incompetent, greedy fuckwits who view their customers as little more than vegetation that grows dollars instead of leaves.
Apple engineer : Hey, hey, it's harvest time again and we still don't have any products that justify the $500 price tag we're putting on them.
Apple manager : Uh, just find out what everyone's buying already, copy that and merge it with one of our existing products, and then we'll pretend we had the idea all along.
Engineer : Resistance is futile.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I was talking to an Apple freak about this last night, and his big justification of Apple is that "A huge part of the market doesn't want to have all the features and ability to fuck things up that OSs like Windows gives you. They want things to be simple and know that they're not going to fuck things up by messing with the wrong thing."
I won't go into how fucked up that statement is, but I will point out Jesse Ventura's famous quote:
"Religion is a crutch for the weak minded."
Thus, "Macs are the preferred choice of people too stupid to operate a PC."
He didn't find that as funny as I did...
I'm kidding, he laughed and actually agreed.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Ask him to swap out his hardware without using the USPS or an official Apple store.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."