Apple Fanatsics

No, today I will not talk about fanatics of healthy living, just few observations about the more fanatic part of Apple community.

I always loved technology. I remember waiting for first usable e-paper readers, following all news about e-ink technology, dreaming about getting one someday. My dreams finally came true and I am a proud owner of Bebook Neo which I love to the core. It has everything I want, maybe few things I would like to change, but they are only there because limitation of technology.

There is no way that I never heard of Apple, especially now. I remember them when they started as Macintosh company and then I thought that they maybe up to something. Time has passed, company changed name, became popular, you could even see adverts of it in tv. Is there anybody tech orientated that didn't saw PC vs Mac ads? For me this ad made me loose interest in Apple product. I always were using PCs and I found ad redundant to the core. Showing that if you don't use our product, you are a boring person with no personality and with limitations beyond believe just made me cringe inside.

On this day I decided to never ever use Apple products as I found false advertising annoying. Two years have passed and iPhone came out. I remember all the news leaked by company to tech news, trying to rise curiosity in potential consumers. I admit that even I was tempted by this siren song from beyond. Then I read specifications. No flash, company can remotely delete stuff from your phone, block it, you can only use apple pre-approved products? No, no touch screen technology was worth the small print on the bottom of specifications. I got another phone, maybe not so "amazing" but I love it, it does what I need and I am away from Apple again.

When I started to look for e-reader to buy, as I am reading lots of books and don't have enough space at my home I found out about iPad. Slim looking, "magical" (according to apple shop, who the hell names they product magical?), advertised as new generations of e-readers. LCD screen? How can any device with LCD screen be called new e-reader? It is like taking step back from what technology already achieved, big step back. It cannot be a small personal computer because it is loosing with the cheapest netbook. It doesn't have any multitasking, camera? Of course not there, no flash and again limited to apple shop. Not to mention that if you want to connect anything to it, you need to take with you big bundle of cables, as it doesn't have even usb connection.

Question is, who buys this kind of products. I just cannot see any normal, intelligent person buying one and still they are selling like hot buns and it confuse me. Nobody I know is interested in it, most people are making fun of it, except people at G****** service, which act like they got a big fat cheque to advertise it on they page. This is a big unknown for me and I am scared of meeting such a person.

Talking about G. place, when I was looking for some specifications for e-readers I found they page and kind of got attached to it for a time. I was reading it few times a day, as news showed up very often. Problem is the Apple fanatics base that is the main reason why I stopped going there at all. Any comment that tries to show how Apple is squeezing money out of they users and how bad is they policy is criticise with such a hatred and anger that I feel my blood boil. It makes me wonder how this people became so brain washed that they cannot even notice how they beloved company makes a fool out of them on every step, getting them buy every year a new, better version that could be released as a first version, because there was no technology limitation. I pity people who, when you make an argument are yelling at you, when they feel like they are using argument.

Don't get me wrong, being a fan of any company is ok with me. I myself have my likes and dislikes in technology industry and I am never hiding it. I just don't tolerate fanatics, I really don't. I dislike people who try to sound like they know everything about everything, acting like a omnipotent oracle. Unfortunately the only time I was in the situation that I wanted to send a person to the "naughty spot" (like super nanny would say) was when I was talking to Apple fanatics.