Neurologists: Apple is like a religion

[TeamworkGuy2]

captaincranky said:

Apple is a brand, like any other. Part of being a brand is that people who are loyal to the brand irrationally consider their products better. This should be news to nobody that both religious fanatics and Apple fanatics use the same parts of their brains to not think.

Now, now, we'll have no more blasphemy from you. And in the future, I expect you'll address Mr. Jobs as, "Your Most App-Holiest"!

ROFL, this tread pretty much made my week
I have got to agree, especially college students with Apple products, they're so 'Applish'!

 

[captaincranky]

Awesome, now Mac Fa... Cult Boys will be mad for a time and will start blocking streets and yell white power :\

Either that, or,"nerd power", as they wave their empty wallets in the air.

"I just bought an iPad, now I'm broke".......(yay)...

 

[Whoaman]

Attachment and Aversion. Religion is simply the packaged version. Even believing in nothing is a kind of attachment.

They actually pay people to do study this? Sign me up :$

 

[captaincranky]

Attachment and Aversion. Religion is simply the packaged version. Even believing in nothing is a kind of attachment.

They actually pay people to do study this? Sign me up :$

Well, yes they do. The trouble is that it's in the form of a shot of endorphins delivered by gluteal injection with a rusty needle, not in actual money

 

[bakape]

captaincranky said:

Attachment and Aversion. Religion is simply the packaged version. Even believing in nothing is a kind of attachment.

They actually pay people to do study this? Sign me up :$

Well, yes they do. The trouble is that it's in the form of a shot of endorphins delivered by gluteal injection with a rusty needle, not in actual money

Now let us reach a mutual understanding on dosage and regularity, and you can consider myself a lifetime employee, till death do us part.

 

[seefizzle]

I have always said that Apple fanboys are like Jehova's witnesses.

 

[Guest]

In other news, TechSpot journalists take a reprieve from real news-events in order to bring you ambiguous corollary that suggests only Apple fans are capable of being smug fanatics, and that religion is somehow relevant to this phenomenon! Stay tuned for the next news update: "Neurologists: Hungry people are like zombies."

 

[gwailo247]

I think the road to Damascus moment for this particular cult was when people were told that they were holding their phone wrong. Those that agreed, are members. Those that said, WTF were saved.

 

[captaincranky]

In other news, TechSpot journalists take a reprieve from real news-events in order to bring you ambiguous corollary that suggests only Apple fans are capable of being smug fanatics, and that religion is somehow relevant to this phenomenon! Stay tuned for the next news update: "Neurologists: Hungry people are like zombies."

Well Guest, it's like they say, "all real news and no comedy makes guest a dull boy".Besides,the world is supposed to end tomorrow! Maybe you should celebrate and spend your last day "folding at home".

 

[dividebyzero]

Apple is like a religion...

And we all know that religeon and large explosions go together like imitation thrift shop clothing and hipsters, so it will undoubtably come as no surprise that Foxconn's Chengdu factory did just that today ( Building A5 - iPad2 production line)

Washington Post link here

 

[Archean]

+1 DBZ

I just heard that news on TV, they don't know what caused it though. Well at least we all know iSheeps will happily wait till the production begins again and their beloved toys start arriving at nearby stores.

 

[hellokitty[hk]]

So...any Apple fans want to try and convince me that Apple's stuff is superior?
I'll start out by conceding that their laptops look pretty snazzy, and that the hardware on their mp3 players is not bad.

 

[dividebyzero]

I just heard that news on TV, they don't know what caused it though

I'm picking that there was a guided tour of the plant organised by Apple for loyal and unwavering customers...once they were all [strikethrough]assembled[/strikethrough] herded together, their superciliousness achieved critical mass....one minute, a(n orderly) throng of ironic message t-shirts and tight jeans...the next...

 

[Guest]

Problem is that too many people see religion as a "rational" way of thinking...thats why apple-lovers have no problem devoting significant portions of their time, money, faith to basically 'an idea ro belief'..hmm, sound familiar?

 

[captaincranky]

Apple is like a religion...

And we all know that religeon and large explosions go together like imitation thrift shop clothing and hipsters,...[ ]...

Now if you'll just say the mystical incantation, "Bush, Bong, and Beatles", three times, you will return to the early seventies..

so it will undoubtably come as no surprise that Foxconn's Chengdu factory [/URL]did just that today ( Building A5 - iPad2 production line)]

This also has a mystical explanation! Lucifer sent his archangel, "Jimmy Hoffa", to smite the Chinese for using non-union labor. The fire was begun in a kiln room, where they were fashioning Steve Job's canopic jars....

 

[dividebyzero]

The fire was begun in a kiln room, where they were fashioning Steve Job's canopic jars....

If they have that much clay might that suppose that they have enough to manufacturer a few Golems as well ?

From our friends at wiki:
Golems are not intelligent, and if commanded to perform a task, they will perform the instructions literally. In many depictions golems are inherently perfectly obedient
and...
Exhibit 2....and 3

smoking gun?

 

[Archean]

Similar Golems (literally, like the one's in Exhibit 2 especially) are 'made' in places like Harvard, so when they are let loose in the wild, they come up with schemes with exotic names like CDS, to rip everyone else for benefit of their master(s). and when their schemes are about to run out of steam (literally) they invent enough scarey stories that they are given more money (almost free of cost) by other Golems (the ones who are born as one, but end up being in political offices), so they can go and more have fun at the expense of well ...... you know what I am talking about. Okay I will admit it is just a theory, but a plausible one IMO.

 

[Flannelwarrior]

This is hilarious. Especially since Apple fanboys are in every was as obnoxious as Bible thumping God freaks.

 

[amstech]

Another article proving that we are truly living in a pussified media driven world with ridiculous claims and comparisons.

 

[Guest]

I always knew apple products have some kind of brainwashing device inside them to make people love only apple a la the manchurian candidate. and that explain all the "measures" they took against anyone who tried to open their products. I am glad i never touched any device with apple logo on it

 

[example1013]

hellokitty[hk] said:
So...any Apple fans want to try and convince me that Apple's stuff is superior?
I'll start out by conceding that their laptops look pretty snazzy, and that the hardware on their mp3 players is not bad.

On the hardware end? No, I'm not going to argue anything. On the support end, though? My experiences with Apple's free support have been on par with Dell's paid-for Gold support that I deal with at work. Top-of-the-line support, provided at no cost to the user. It's about as pleasant and painless as having a computer problem could be.

Also, development is really nice, especially for software. iOS and OSX use many of the same assets, and run in the same language (Cocoa), along with providing built-in support for a ton of other languages. Using Objective-C is really nice, and it's fairly easy to get into, even having no prior coding experience. The SDK is free as long as you have a mac, and is extremely fully-featured. There are also tons of free places to go to get started on learning, so it's actually a really good intro to programming in general.

Much of the experience is fairly intuitive, as well, especially on the mobile platforms. No one has to teach you how to use an iPad, which is the main reason why so many people love them. Notice that Windows 7 also stole a few features from OSX, because they're nice. The two OSes are really similar overall, though (past some UI stuff), so I'm not going to really argue that OSX is far-and-away superior. I will say that I've used both Windows and Mac my whole life, and I prefer Mac.

 

[Guest]

So my idea that apple is the Scientology of the tech world is not so far off after all?

 

[aj_the_kidd]

I like the products that apple produces but the the "aura" around it, not so much. Like that stupid ad:

"If you don't have an iPhone, well then, you don't have an iPhone",

So pretentious and elitist, IMO of course, wouldn't want to annoy you sensitive apple fan boys out there

 

[captaincranky]

I like the products that apple produces but the the "aura" around it, not so much. Like that stupid ad:

"If you don't have an iPhone, well then, you don't have an iPhone",

So pretentious and elitist, IMO of course, wouldn't want to annoy you sensitive apple fan boys out there

Well AJ, I don't consider this quote "elitist",

"If you don't have an iPhone, well then, you don't have an iPhone",

I am personally offended by it. If anything, this is abundantly condescending. You're being talked down to at a level of hubris that I'm completely uncomfortable with. A plodding imbecile might nod his, (or her), head in agreement with this banality, myself I just mute the sound, or change the channel.

 

[aj_the_kidd]

captaincranky said:

I like the products that apple produces but the the "aura" around it, not so much. Like that stupid ad:

"If you don't have an iPhone, well then, you don't have an iPhone",

So pretentious and elitist, IMO of course, wouldn't want to annoy you sensitive apple fan boys out there

Well AJ, I don't consider this quote "elitist",

"If you don't have an iPhone, well then, you don't have an iPhone",

I am personally offended by it. If anything, this is abundantly condescending. You're being talked down to at a level of hubris that I'm completely uncomfortable with. A plodding imbecile might nod his, (or her), head in agreement with this banality, myself I just mute the sound, or change the channel.

Call it what you want i suppose, same diff IMO. There's only so many times i can mute or change the channel, particularly when i'm really tired. The other Apple ads didn't annoy me as much as that one, they brought it to another level with that sentence