apple religion
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- Boz0
You'll almost never see anyone waiting for refrigerators, or PCs, or whatever other electronic products in front of the electronics store (unless they are selling a $2000 TV for $300).
Apple's cult is really unique in that..Take a look at Guy Kawasaki who worked for Apple (btw, it wouldn't be a bad thing for anyone who wants to understand how the cult behavior starts to read his book called The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions).
He was the manager and main guy at Apple who's sole responsibility was to create zealot behavior among Mac fans and create hatred towards PCs and instigate mocking and really just get the cult going. He was the guy who was paid to use enchantment to create a Mac cult.
So when we discus this phenomenon, we should take a look at how this came to be.
Apple fanboys or supporters or however you want to call them are drilled with the marketing message specifically tailored to them in order to make them feel superior to everyone else, that their choices about computing and getting into platform with absolutely no choices in a larger sense are the right one and everyone else is wrong.
The reason this enchantment works (even though it's not factual) is because Apple makes great design, so it's much easier to start believing at something if your subjective view is driven by vanity and design alone.
I mean it has become ridiculous to the point where anyone who even doesn't own a product lusts over it because this message of superiority is always popular and easily believable.
But draw a line from psychological aspect and you quickly realize that it's the identical behavior of a cult, thus the religious reaction equivalent.
- Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions is the book nameBoz
- orrinward0
You don't get it for fridges, but you do get it at a lot of products.
Oh, those Apple fanboys are on another level from everyone else aren't they...
- buuurrrrrnnnnnnreinitialize
- Those In-N-Out videos are another good example.fugged
- chrisRG0
Apple fans are pretty much the same as Nirvana and Iron Maiden fans.
You like the brand/band but the fanboys make it look "silly".
- Boz0
None of those examples are driven by cult like religious following. They are driven by either price or a specific feature or simply entertainment.
Apple is very unique in religious, cult like behavior among fans and you can see that very openly when you argue them. Apple can do no wrong and even if it does it has to be a very good reason for it and it's overblown.
With Apple, cult followers are enchanted by the company, the brand and what that company gives them in terms of identity and feeling superior.
- pillhead0
Jesus, this bloody Apple thing is getting out of hand. I still think it's ridiculous watching all these people act like this for what is a peace of electronics. Well, at least it gives me something to laugh about.
- inteliboy0
What? How is that different? People craze and obsess about all kinds of shit.
Have you ever gone to a Nintendo site? Or an Xbox site? Or read messages at the end of an IGN article? These guys are MEGA fanboys and dare you question anything about their beloved company of choice.
Secondly - Boz you always speak of "they" and the "cult" and "fanboys". Who are these people and where are they? I've never actually met or argued with one of this people in real life... (not including sport!) ... or maybe these tech-rivalries choose-a-corporation-or-die is a sport to you?
- ukit0
- ESKEMA0
*rolls eyes, walk out of thread.
- raf0
Apple are innocent choir boys compared with immoral, anti-competitive practices employed by your beloved Adobe Boz.
I have a choice not to use Apple—whether it's OS, phone or whatnot—but no choice not to use Adobe because they bought out the competition (Macromedia) and slashed competing products, inflating remaining product prices since.
Funny enough, it's in part thanks to Apple that I don't have to use Flash anymore, another technology controlled by Adobe.