An interesting article at OSNews written by a former Mac fan about how Apple lost the war against the PC. The article looks at the Apple community which is well known for it’s fanboys and Apple’s attitude to them. It’s refreshing to see an article like this for a change.

I doubt Apple fanboys will even bother reading it and will uber-flame the author. Apple fanboys are the main thing that puts me off about Apple. With Apple fanboys, you can hardly get a word in edge ways and you can never seem to have a sensible argument with an Apple fanboy without them telling you how stupid and ignorant you are.

The other issue is whether you can trust anything Apple and their fanboys say – Apple said PPC was a ton better than x86 which it blatently isn’t. Apple fanboys exaggerate about everything; if there was actually anything good about Macs it’d get lost amongst all the crap and no sane person trusts the word of an Apple fanboy.

The article also looks at how Apple are encouraging this fanboy behaviour though I think comparing Apple to an extreme right wing party might be a little extreme.

Apple is like an extreme right wing political party, that denies racism, while condoning the expression of extreme racist attitudes in its supporters as understandable. The extremism of Apple’s supporters is only its own marketing line taken to absurd and offensive lengths. Apple more or less gently mocks the buyers of other products. Its supporters abuse them as low class redneck idiots and talk about ‘Windoze’ and ‘Micro$oft. Apple says nothing.

I am also saying that the alienating tone of the Apple marketing materials and their use by the fanatics is a deliberate choice on the part of the company. Apple knows it is alienating people who are not members of the cult, and accepts, perhaps even welcomes it. Their aim is to foster a sense of being a persecuted superior minority among their users.