"Apple is a new religion. . . "

[MacArtist]

Janit wrote:
[quote=MacArtist]
So if Apple is a religion...

What part of it are Hackintoshers?

We lie somewhere between apostasy and the Devil's spawn. Lo, but we are great sinners who take the sacred words of the EULA in vain.
I was hoping Hackintoshers were kind of like Lutherans and Apple was like Catholicism.

[rob banzai]

Journalists don't sell adspace by writing about the truth.

[guitarist]

I also like his quote-worthy "source"

an email from a friend.

lol

[Article Accelerator]

I'm amazed that they're (still) trying to marginalize 150 million users of Apple's products.

It's pitiful.

[Bernie]

Admiration, adoration, and adulation can all apply. For years I wished, in a most committed way, for an Apple Phone. Steve made it so.
He may have gotten as much from me as the church. But I can distinguish between the two. Apple folks are still a step up from sports fans.

[sekker]

Sports fans seems like a great analogy.

When a truly great coach falls, we will see the same emotions.

Jobs just impacted so many more people than a single sports franchise

[Kate]

If it was a religion, think of all the money we would have saved from sales tax after all these years. Not sure it would work this way but that was the first thing that popped in to my head from the topic heading. $60 alone on my new phone.

Kate

[mattkime]

If Apple is a religion, where do I go when the trash is emptied?

[Black]

A telling amount of defensiveness here. As guitarist touched on, devotion to Apple and Jobs surely taps into the same center of the brain that evolved to house religious and spiritual beliefs and now sits mostly dormant in many of us.
I think a better parallel than protestantism might be Jehovah's Witness or Mormonism, considering the drive to foster successful "switchers."

[deckeda]

Article Accelerator wrote:
I'm amazed that they're (still) trying to marginalize 150 million users of Apple's products.

It's pitiful.

As a society we love to knock things and people off the perch they shouldn't have placed upon in the first place. That's two sorts of distortion right there. And we do it to satisfy our (societies) apparent thirst for understanding stuff that doesn't really need analyzing in the first place.

But everyone needs a hobby I suppose.