Apple Users

It was not a logical thing with them, it was an obsession. They were on what to them was a life and death mission to eradicate Macs in our workplace. And in the world.

Why?

- PC's are the standard, every one must conform
- Macs are awful and underpowered and hard to use and troubleshoot
- people who use Macs are stupid and too dumb to use a real computer
- Mac users are mean to me ( lots of projection in that one)

And on and on. There.was no way to have a logical discussion with them. If you refuted their claims with research, they shifted the argument to some other bizarre untruth.

What you are seeing here at DU is partly those types who have latched on to FOXCONN as yet another way to feed their obsession with Apple.

As you know, there are many companies that use FOXCONN. It is pretty much impossible to buy a computing device that is FOXCONN free. It is a serious problem.

However, the Apple Obsessed turn every discussion about the issue of outsourcing to places like FOXCONN into a discussion of how evil Apple is and how dumb/mean Apple users are.

They cannot have an honest discussion about the problem, they effectively give Dell, HP, Microsoft,Samsung, Nokia and so on a free pass.

When I ask them why the focus is always on Apple and not on all manufacturers, there responses are fairly incoherent.

"HP doesn't have fans who post about their products on the Internet"
"Apple markets itself as Progressive" (funny all the ads I see are about innovation and ease of use)
"DU Apple users are mean to me" (more projection as far as I can tell)

When I ask them what FOXCONN products they own, they either fall silent or go into some other crazy explanation about how "that is different."

So that's it in a nutshell. Out in the real world, Some people are seriously fixated on Apple and Apple customers in this bizarre way. And some of those people are here at DU.