<story><title>Hate Mail and the New Religious Wars in Tech</title><url>http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/hate-mail-and-the-new-religious-wars-in-tech/?nl=technology&amp;emc=cta2_20120621</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Interestingly, the same phenomenon that makes people write those emails can make them &quot;double down&quot; on a tech choice.  A friend defaults anti-Apple so refused to buy the &quot;Jesus phone&quot;.  After four Android phones, each less reliable than the last while his sister&apos;s still rocking an iPhone 3GS, he switched last week ...  To Windows Phone 7.  He just paid $500 for a phone that, 3 days later, was announced would not be upgradable to Windows Phone 8.  All because he is determined that Apple users are smug fanboys.&lt;p&gt;(Personally, I think he should have gotten a Google Galaxy Nexus if he wanted his sister&apos;s mockery about constant obsolescence and non working hardware to stop.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessedhillon</author><text>He detests Apple products because he feels that Apple users allow themselves to be defined by Apple through their purchasing decisions. So, he refuses to buy an Apple phone -- even going to ridiculous extents to exercise a non-Apple option -- ironically, allowing himself to be defined by Apple products!&lt;p&gt;If Apple goes left he will go right, if they go up he goes down; he is still deciding his tech choices based on Apple&apos;s choices, only he&apos;s navigating the whitespace where Apple fans navigate the blackspace. If he were truly free, he would simply choose the best phone for his needs and lifestyle. Instead he is as slavishly bound to Apple as the people he mocks.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hate Mail and the New Religious Wars in Tech</title><url>http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/hate-mail-and-the-new-religious-wars-in-tech/?nl=technology&amp;emc=cta2_20120621</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Interestingly, the same phenomenon that makes people write those emails can make them &quot;double down&quot; on a tech choice.  A friend defaults anti-Apple so refused to buy the &quot;Jesus phone&quot;.  After four Android phones, each less reliable than the last while his sister&apos;s still rocking an iPhone 3GS, he switched last week ...  To Windows Phone 7.  He just paid $500 for a phone that, 3 days later, was announced would not be upgradable to Windows Phone 8.  All because he is determined that Apple users are smug fanboys.&lt;p&gt;(Personally, I think he should have gotten a Google Galaxy Nexus if he wanted his sister&apos;s mockery about constant obsolescence and non working hardware to stop.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>Casual Apple user here - it entertains me to no end how quickly everyone is to denote all Apple users to be fanboys to such an extent that they are downright anti-apple fanboys.&lt;p&gt;In reality I think more Apple users would ditch Apple as soon as something significantly better came along, than Android users (who chose to use Android, not people who bought a &quot;generic smartphone&quot;) would ditch Android should something better come along.</text></comment>