This is great, I love to get slammed on, and I don't take it personally. I also think Lahcim is going overboard with his praise for something I did 15 years ago. If anything I should be cast aside as a one-time wonderboy who hasn't done anything remarkable since. But thanks for the ego boost :-)
However, he's right that I'm no fanboy. Apple is the new Borg. I begrudgingly bought my wife a Mac laptop after she begged me to. Ever since then I've been gradually assimilated. We have 4 Macs in the house and 3 PCs. I now carry an iPhone AND and iPad to the coffeeshop, and I'm sure I look like one of those pretentious apple-loving dorks that used to irritate me.
I've been into the local Apple store a few times here in Kansas City, and each time it looks like a party going on...teeming with happy people, standing room only. The first time I thought, "it's going to take forever to stand in line and buy something". The next thing I knew, a sales guy had run my credit card through his iPhone and I was walking out the door with a neatly packaged accessory, thinking "that was an AWESOME retail experience". Meanwhile a seed started growing in my brain that the salesperson cleverly planted: "I use a Mac as a Windows Machine, and it's the best Windows PC I've ever had."
6 months later here I am buying a beautifully crafted, overpriced Windows PC with an Apple logo. For my birthday a few days ago, my wife got me an iPhone 4 to replace my buggy iPhone 2. My God, the engineering that goes into the packaging is amazing! What a treat it is just to open the box!
I hate being under the influence of an external force, and I feel weak for admitting it, but there is something magically compelling about Apple that gives one patience for its products' defects. My wife laughs at me because I swore I'd never buy myself a Mac. The company is truly clicking on all cylinders.
Ok, so maybe I am a bit of a fanboy. Troll away.
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