I was trying to come up with a topic to blog about today, when a friend kindly posted a link on his Facebook profile about the shenanigans Apple has been getting up to lately, what with trying to lock all iPod users to using iTunes, by threating lawsuits against hosting companies whose clients include makers of any software that's iPod-compatible. My vendetta is made rather more personal because one such maker is a friend of mine, and his software, El Tunes, has been targeted by Apple's hitmen too.
I see too many software geeks using MacBooks and other Apple gear, and in so doing elevated them to a geekier status than they deserve. (Apple products, geeky? Surely you jest!) That must stop! It's trendy in geek culture to trash Microsoft and wish for its downfall; I feel that the same trendiness in trashing Apple must come forth in the geek world too. I'm no fan of Microsoft (I'm primarily a Unix coder, after all), but it's quite something for me to hate Apple even more than I hate Microsoft.
To whatever degree I (or my real-life persona :-)) will gain some voice in the geek world in future, I will not hesitate to give Apple some of the same ‘love’ that Microsoft has been getting, nor will I be anything less than encouraging to other geeks who wish to spread said ‘love’. Let me start by recommending, if you're on Facebook, the I hate Apple group.
Yes, this is a declaration of war: they deserve it, every little bit.
Update: Getting swarmed by fanboys! Oh noes! :-P
Update: The Simpsons episode with the Mapple store is totally hilarious, says what I've wanted to say much better than I ever can. :-) And, what's funnier, the way some ‘Mapple’ fans make fools of themselves on this thread are priceless! (And not very much different from the ones on this thread. :-P)
