How the minions use reversed labels to trample the Apple uprising

[anjinha]

No one here is saying that ALL mac users are freethinkers while ALL PC users are fanatics, not even close, it's not the point of the thread. But in MY experience most Mac users have tried both platforms while most PC users haven't. Considering that I think it's ironic that PC users are the ones calling Mac users fanatics when they're the ones who haven't tried anything else, and a lot of them actually refuse to do so.

That being said if a PC user actually has experience with both platforms but chooses to use PCs I would consider him a "free thinker" while a Mac user who has tried only Macs and refuses to try anything else would be a "fanatic".

Geez guys, can we settle down now?

 

[Melrose]

OP: So did you start this thread just argue? Some people have differing viewpoints. It's a discussion board... every once in a blue coon's age someone might happen to disagree with you.

I don't get the point behind just arguing for the sake of arguing..

 

[theLimit]

I've had my share of unfriendly sneers for using a MacBook or iPhone in public. I've also had people whip out their MacBook or iPhone and try to start a conversation because they think we have something in common. Those people are fanatics.

I use a tool to do a job. Period. I have no emotional connection to the companies that make the devices, or to other people who also use them. If I see someone with a Dell or a Droid, I assume that they have the best tool for them with which to accomplish whatever task they need to do.

Most PC users fit that category. They buy a PC to surf the met bevause they are familiar with that tool or know someone that can teach them how to use it. They don't buy out of fanaticism. They buy what they know to work, rather than an unknown that may no so what they need. Most PC users are not hanging around on forums posting about how much Macs suck an their users are blind followers of the Mac cult.

There are just as many fanatics on either side of the fence. The pictures of folks lining up around stores to buy an iPhone or the massive "waiting for Arrandale" threads here on the forums are evidence of Apple fanaticism. Only a fanactic would concern themselves with the opinions of other fanatics.

 

[Zab the Fab]

No one here is saying that ALL mac users are freethinkers while ALL PC users are fanatics, not even close, it's not the point of the thread. But in MY experience most Mac users have tried both platforms while most PC users haven't. Considering that I think it's ironic that PC users are the ones calling Mac users fanatics when they're the ones who haven't tried anything else, and a lot of them actually refuse to do so.

That being said if a PC user actually has experience with both platforms but chooses to use PCs I would consider him a "free thinker" while a Mac user who has tried only Macs and refuses to try anything else would be a "fanatic".

Geez guys, can we settle down now?

I agree and yes of cause that is your experience and why would anyone even consider the notion that somehow 90% of the market has tried what they can only find in 10% of the market. "Tried" as in having tried it enough to make an informed decision about which platform to prefer (which is what we are analyzing here).

It's obvious that the person who refuses to try both platforms but still claims one the superior is the fanatic. And yet we have been conditioned to think that it's us who has intimate experience with both platforms hence prefers the one we find superior is the opposite of being a fanatic.

Reversed label psychology.

OP: So did you start this thread just argue? Some people have differing viewpoints. It's a discussion board... every once in a blue coon's age someone might happen to disagree with you.

I don't get the point behind just arguing for the sake of arguing..

I asume you are asking everyone else in a minute? Or are you suffering from the distorted view that I am somehow "arguing" with myself? And didn't you just make an argument also? Are you confused?

We are analyzing. Why some chose from the beginning to use slander and derogatory comments probably is because they did not approve of what the article was exposing? And so their did not "understand" the article.

I've had my share of unfriendly sneers for using a MacBook or iPhone in public. I've also had people whip out their MacBook or iPhone and try to start a conversation because they think we have something in common. Those people are fanatics.

I use a tool to do a job. Period. I have no emotional connection to the companies that make the devices, or to other people who also use them. If I see someone with a Dell or a Droid, I assume that they have the best tool for them with which to accomplish whatever task they need to do.

Most PC users fit that category. They buy a PC to surf the met bevause they are familiar with that tool or know someone that can teach them how to use it. They don't buy out of fanaticism. They buy what they know to work, rather than an unknown that may no so what they need. Most PC users are not hanging around on forums posting about how much Macs suck an their users are blind followers of the Mac cult.

There are just as many fanatics on either side of the fence. The pictures of folks lining up around stores to buy an iPhone or the massive "waiting for Arrandale" threads here on the forums are evidence of Apple fanaticism. Only a fanactic would concern themselves with the opinions of other fanatics.

"I've also had people whip out their MacBook or iPhone and try to start a conversation because they think we have something in common. Those people are fanatics."
We have already been over this misunderstanding. If the person starting a conversation with you over the topic of an Apple product prefers Apple products because he knows the alternatives and is such very excited, he is of cause not a fanatic. Just because you are indifferent towards a product does not determine weather you are a fanatic or not. Actually it's this very misconception the article tackles that: "enthusiasm cannot derive from enlightenment but only from fanaticism" is a major falsehood. I urge you to not fall victim to such blatant distortions of reality.