Anthropologist 'confirms' Apple is a religion

ZDNet ^ | October 25, 2012 | Charlie Osborne

[Standing Wolf]

I was kind of a Macintosh evangelist years ago. I spent extra to buy Macintoshes. I went out of my way to persuade employers and clients to buy them. I turned down a job offer or two because I'd have had to downgrade to the Microsoft operating system.

A religion? No, but my faith in Macintosh had both more substance and more substantial rewards than lots of other people's faith in Marxism, Islam, the Democratic [sic] party, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, et alia. Only one of the hundreds of Macintoshes I've bought and specified over the years was a dud, and it was a Power Computing clone, not an Apple. The one I'm using this afternoon is eight years old, still going strong, albeit noisy because the fan comes on at 65° instead of a higher temperature. I've had to replace the battery, which set me back nearly $20. I've had to vacuum dust out of it at least once a year. The operating system... Well, let me put it this way: if I could go back to OS 7 or OS 8, I'd have done it a long time ago.

[Wuli]

I think there is a broader “religion” involved and that is the religion of the “computer technology revolution” itself, and Apple, Microsoft, the Internet, Google, cell phones, ect,, ect., are just branches, or interconnected “denominations/sects” of that religion;

and like many religions

the computer technology revolution/religion insists you, and all society MUST jump on board, or you won’t be saved; only that is referring to now, in this lifetime, not the hereafter

[Chickensoup]

Interesting that it is a religion spread by the public schools. Many school districts give out apples to their jr high and high school students.

Early converts.

[itsahoot]

He RESENTED having to use a PC at work.

Would you resent having to use an Apple?

[itsahoot]

if I could go back to OS 7 or OS 8, I'd have done it a long time ago.

Me toooooo. HyperCard was easy enough for even a dummy like me to create useful stuff. Actually I loved the GUI on the II GS.

[newzjunkey]

Cute but the iPad mini display is 7.9 inches.

[wastedyears]

What about fans of Star Trek and Star Wars?

[Daffynition]