Is Apple a Cult?

[krashkart]

An interesting little article from Al Jazeera:

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2...648184415.html

In other news, Steve Jobs has founded his own nation:



And be sure to watch your favorite TV shows and movies for product placements of Apple's latest ingenious device:



Here's an oldie but goodie:

[XabbaRus]

Yes yes and yes.

A cult like scientology I do believe....

You see to reach the next generation you have to pay more.....

[tater]

So you're saying that liking macs is a religion, and it's OK to make fun of them for that reason. Gotcha.

Hater.

I own a PC for games, but our laptops and one desktop machine are macs. Wife has an iPhone—which is cool, but I prefer a good signal everyplace vs bells and whistles, myself.

Best things about the macs? They are completely, totally quiet. if the CD/DVD is spun up they make drive noise, that's it. No fan, nothing. Second best is an uptime literally measured in years, they only ever get rebooted for system updates that require it. They are appliances, and they work (and as a UNIX guy, I like having a unix box <shrug>).

I always have a built-myself gaming rig, too. I feel like a shade tree mechanic though, keeping it running (and even though I tried to build a quiet one (PS, fans, and box specifically picked for low noise), it sounds like a hair dryer sometimes). To be fair, if I were using my PC for the day to day stuff we use the macs for, it would be pretty bulletproof with XP Pro (SP3), too. It's the gaming crap that makes my PC a PITA. One exception is some Java stuff that is work-related (x-ray viewer) that only runs on IE on a PC, and breaks if you mess with Java, or have IE set to be even slightly safe to use. Not the PC's fault, but the idiots who wrote the radiology applet. Still, keeping it working is also a PITA for that.

PS—is caring at all about someone else's choice of technological hardware a cult? I certainly don't care about someone else's choices unless they affect ME.

PPS—on topic, yes, for many it is a cult. I know "religious" mac nuts, and I know PC people who "religiously" attack macs, too. Liking the iPad, for example. I just don't get it, and Apple calling it "magical" is, well, kooky

[XabbaRus]

I'm not a hater, just being sarcastic.

I just get vague amusement at teh mac lovers who gush over it.

They look cool as does the iPhone but I don't get it.

[nikimcbee]

I'll say yes.

No software selection and overpriced hardware.

[PeriscopeDepth]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I'll say yes.

No software selection and overpriced hardware.

I have been using one the past couple months for work. The hardware/software integration impresses me. The only software that is missing is games, but computers do have purposes beyond gaming. The machines themselves are more expensive but the overall design, support, and OS/included software quality has won me over. I don't think I'll purchase a PC box again unless it is primarily a gaming/media center. And the media center justification is purely for onboard HDMI.

PD

[Task Force]

I never got macs... have one, dont really use it.

[stabiz]

Is Apple a Cult?

Yes. Either that or there is something in the water.

[Morpheus]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Yes yes and yes.

A cult like scientology I do believe....

You see to reach the next generation you have to pay more.....

xD, yes m8. Give them hell!

I don't like those pricks either, for various reasons...

[Torvald Von Mansee]

It does seem like a certain person uses a Mac. You know the kind: they draw fists to their faces like black holes grabbing comets. The desire to punch them is overpowering.

[tater]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

It does seem like a certain person uses a Mac. You know the kind: they draw fists to their faces like black holes grabbing comets. The desire to punch them is overpowering.

Why do I always see posts like this from PC guys who hate macs tot he point of fantasizing violence? You really care that much about what someone else choses to buy as a computer? Really? It's running the exact same hardware. My game rig PC has the same CPU as my mac, LOL.

Yeah, my mac is "over priced." That's why you hate ME, presumably? Because I don't think twice about dropping $1500+ on a machine used for nothing but internet and organizing family pictures because it takes up almost no space, makes ZERO noise, and looks good in the den visible from the living room?

I sort of laugh at guys with lit up PCs, for example, but I certainly don't want to punch them for their choice of (bad) aesthetics in a computer.

I participate in mac/pc threads sometimes because I have both, and I'm not "religious" about it. Seems like the dogmatically anti-mac goons are equally religious.

So we've determined here that some can see the point in both platforms, some don't care one way or another, some want to give Steve Jobs a BJ, and some want to punch Steve Jobs—then give Bill Gates a BJ.




Gotcha.