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Only persons interested with anything Apple would click on it.
If Samsung came out with a Galaxy I wouldn't click on it but an angry Android nerd will click on any competing Apple product.
True that.
”Apple Bigotry” began the second the Apple ][ came out and “democratized” computing for the masses — not just the nerds. 🤓 (They’ve never forgiven Apple and now history repeats itself with iOS/Android. True déjà vu.)
I’m pretty sure that in the annals of online history, the now broad Internet term “troll” was invented by the Mac/Apple community to identify insecure Windows users who’d lurk in Mac/Apple forums only to try to irritate Mac users with intellectual statements like, “MACS SUUUUUCK!” and “APPLE SUUUUUCKS!” (Too insecure about their chosen computing platform plus too much time on their hands…)
(I say “online history,” not Internet history because, pre-WWW, it could be in Bulletin Boards, Chat Rooms, or on AOL, CompuServe, etc.)
But I just got a call from Bill Gates saying he knows what I’m typing and that he invented the term troll, and that he invented everything and the computer and the Graphical User Interface and the lightbulb, and that he was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic, so…
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