[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Just stirrin' the puddin'... ;-)

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Ping, and bring all your friends

[devere]

Overpriced?

[dennisw]

All those themes are true plus the one about Apple marketing to an urban, female, gay, hip, artistic, younger demographic.

[Star Traveler]

And here we go on Memorial Day, Swordmaker ... :-)

[streetpreacher]

Fanboy

[Psycho_Bunny]

Articles like this “need to die”

[ExtremeUnction]

Isn’t Apple for middle-schooler’s?? It’s a sissy company run by a guy with a borrowed liver. I mean, I pity the guy. But Geezz..He’s way too skinny. Apple lovers are sad.

[wendy1946]

You left out GANGSTERISM, i.e. the stunt Apple pulled shutting down the Atari 520 ST around 86 when it appeared that Apple would need four years to come up with anything comparable. THAT is the main reason I don’t have anything to do with Apple or its products.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

This caught my eye: "...but name one thing Apple's done that even comes close to what Microsoft did to Netscape Navigator."

Sentimentality for Netscape is a sore spot for me. Sure, MS steamrollered Netscape in the marketplace. Small wonder: the Netscape browser of that era was pure crap. But whatever Microsoft's sins in its pursuit of the browser market, let's not forget its use of political connections to defend its turf. As I posted here at the time of Netscape's demise on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1945463/posts, "...don’t forget that Netscape the company (whose largest investor at the time was the private venture fund of AmerIndo Investment Advisors, largely funded by Indonesian and Chinese billionaires) was the main plaintiff in the Clinton DOJ’s assault on Microsoft. So I say good-bye and good riddance to Netscape, and I further hope its White-House-Coffee-Sipping investors with their whispers into Bill Clinton’s ear lost not just their shirts but their Mao jackets and little red books as well."

[PJammers]

Why wouldn’t Apple surpass MS. Apple makes computers and other products that run on their operating system. MS makes operating systems. Oh when you buy an apple computer you have to buy the software that come with it. Something MS got sued for. But that’s OK, it’s an Apple, it’s shiny and cool.

Moths to the light.

[dayglored]

The list reads like a remedial tutorial for our resident FR Apple-haters. I was gonna ping DennisW to this thread, but I see he's already here...

The list should have been 8 items -- the one they left out was that Apple users are gay. Thanks to Dennis for filling that one in. :)

[Gun142]

“1. Fanboy”

Fanboy still means “fanboy”. It’s the endless forum posts by Apple defenders who will say anything (including lie) to defend their purchase.
If you’re a true fanboy, you’re an idiot.
If you tell me I’m going to get a virus because I use a MS OS, you’re an idiot. Still waiting on my first virus\spyware\malware and I’ve been a computer user since 1985..... both Apple and MS software\OS. Oh, and Linux & Ubuntu. Wanna guess which OS gave me the most problem? (hint - it wasn’t from MS)

“6. “Apple is the new Microsoft””

Author is a dolt. MS used to be accused of having a restrictive license, now Apple has the worst.
Nice try to dodge the issue.
Let’s build a computer to fit my needs, with the components I want, at the prices I’m willing to pay, then decide which OS to put on it.

“7. Smug Mac users”

The fanboys who think they’re better than the rest of society because they bought a box that lights up are certainly smug, arrogant pricks. These people are the ones who bought Apple thinking they were buying a personality and\or lifestyle only to be disappointed after they learned nobody liked them. If anything, people liked them even less.

How about #8?
8. Apple is run by libtards and eco-nazis (Gore still there?)

I see this a lot and never did care about their politics. Don’t care about MS’s politics either.
Guess what? The hardware is made in communist\3rd world countries, sometimes by children.
Knowing that, why would you support the communist state and child labor with your computer\phone purchase?
Suddenly it’s all a non-issue.

....

People don’t hate Apple, they hate obnoxious fanboys.
Author needs to get over it and quit being a crybaby fanboy.

[bigbob]

why, have you got some better anti-Apple cliches?

[devere]

“One thing PC users can do that Mac users can’t:”

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant

(warning — website contains obscene language)

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Sorry, but Kool-Aid is alive and well in Apple world. If anything, its at new heights.

I went into an Apple store the week the iPad was released. The table was surrounded 3 deep to get a look at it. As it finally cleared up a bit and I got to take a look, some guy walks up next to me, picked it up like he was holding the baby jesus, and with a look on his face bordering on orgasm, he looked over at me and whispered, "oh my god, I can't believe I'm finally touching one."

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Remember Gulliver's Travels and the big endian against
the little endian war, PCS store large numbers as big
endian and Apple stores large numbers as little endians.

[Sloth]

In online debates, there's an informal rule known as Godwin's Law, whereby if you invoke references or comparisons to Nazis or Hitler, you've automatically lost the debate.

It's remarkable that this person actually links to Wikipedia's definition of Godwin's Law when it's obvious he has never read it. Sort of like those e-mail hoaxes that people forward including a link to Snopes (saying "Snopes has confirmed this!") which actually debunks it.

[ThomasThomas]

Why don't we see any articles about 7 anti-Apple anti-generic clones cliches that need to die, I don't care what you think about witch computer I use.

Free market baby should be a conservatives motto in this matter.

motto, that reminds me I need some apple sauce.

[EternalVigilance]

This smug Apple Kool-Aid drinking fanboy is straight out of 1984 and has a one-button mouse for a brain, although he’s right about one thing: Apple isn’t the new Microsoft.

Actually, I couldn’t care less what machine people decide to buy and use. I just wanted to see if I could get all his cliches into one sentence. :-)

[RayChuang88]

Actually, modern Apple-supplied mouse pointers since the Mighty Mouse have essentially two-button functionality anyway--functionality that had been asked for from the likes of Microsoft for Office for the Mac and Adobe for its Creative Suite software. It's well-known that if you plug in a USB-port two-button mouse with a scroll wheel (e.g., many Microsoft and Logitech models), MacOS X will allow you to configure all functionality of the two buttons plus the scroll wheel without adding additional drivers.