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To: discostu
Every fanbase has a cult contingent. It’s just part of life. There are people who insist the Beatles did everything first, there are people who insist Tim Tebow is a great QB, and there are people that insist Apple invented everything. You can pretend Apple is immune if you want, but that’s you putting on blinders.

Then it was not necessary to bring it up in this thread.

58 posted on 08/28/2015 12:44:34 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

“Necessary”?! This is America, almost nothing we do here is necessary. I mean heck, we’re on an Apple thread, a company that specializes in high end entertainment products that are completely and entirely unnecessary. All I did was point out that Apple TV getting voice command capability was a very “us too” feature and that some people would some people would insist it was a cutting edge never before seen feature. From there you went down the very unnecessary path of getting all mad and throwing insults.

Oh and you want proof of the cult of Apple:
http://theweek.com/articles/474359/5-signs-that-apple-cult

“You’ve always been an evangelist for Apple and now you can get paid for it,” Graham Marley, a former Apple salesman, tells Segal.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropologist-confirms-apple-is-a-religion/
A stranger observing one of the launches could probably be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled into a religious revival meeting.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/turning-customers-into-cultists/382248/
But the iPhone isn’t just another phone, and Apple isn’t just another phone manufacturer. It’s a brand with a cult following, whose new products inspire sane people to squat for hours outside the nearest Apple store like Wiccans worshipping before Stonehenge.

And finally there’s my absolute favorite:
http://www.cultofmac.com/about/
Cult of Mac is a daily news website that follows everything Apple.

You should probably explain to those guys how there’s no Apple cult.

Well it’s been fun. But really I have more interesting people to be with. Enjoy you Apple junk.


59 posted on 08/28/2015 12:50:45 PM PDT by discostu (It always comes down to cortexiphan)
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