[Swordmaker]

We’re happy with the product line. Annoyed with experiences from many other vendors, it’s refreshing to receive high quality goods and services at a fair price - enough so many get giddy when something new is announced.

Contrasting this is those obsessed with stalking the happy, spewing invective at every opportunity, insisting the happy be convinced they are somehow deranged and must express remorse for their errors.

I think this diagnosis submitted for the upcoming IDC-10 revision, covers freedumb's psychosis:

Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new IDC-10 addenda:

90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.

[freedumb2003]

AFBS: Apple Fan Boy Syndrome: The automatic sycophantic and orgasmic reaction to anything and everything released by Apple, irrespective of how badly trailing are the meaningful functions.

Identified by expensive purchases of devices that could be replaced by other devices at 1/2 the cost, extreme anger and angst at having their incorrect worldview challenged and slavish slobbering over mediocre products, up to and including standing in lines before midnight because the vendor gives the pavlovian control word of “NEW!”

Diagnosis: destined to be children forever.

Prognosis: extreme sadness and ridicule.

[freedumb2003]

And thanks for Exhibit C.

You guys are writing the narrative that exactly defines the Apple fan boy phenomenon.

You rock, baby.