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Okay so this is mostly another Apple post.

I find it interesting that no matter what platform it is, if someone mentions that they like an Apple product or anything Apple does, they are instantly an "Apple Fanboy". The only time that someone is a "Windows Fanboy" or a "Google Fanboy" is when they have called someone an Apple Fanboy.

Now I know where this all started. It was when Macs were running Motorola processors long long ago. Then a Mac user felt that everything about his computer was better. The OS was better, the hardware was better. Then Macs went to Intel and suddenly the hardware argument was moot. The OS was now the thing to stick behind. In those days it was just an argument over Windows or the Mac OS. Then came the iPhone. Then came Android.

What I wonder is, what is this label and why does it exist? It's main suggestion is that the person on the receiving end is delusional because they are championing a product. This very act makes a certain other segment of the population react with revulsion mostly because they see it as an attack on the opposite choice they made. Just the act of liking something and talking about it causes some people to hate the person. Hands down this is an irrational reaction. Why would it matter what product someone else feels is superior? Why should anyone care enough about someone else's opinion on a consumer product that they hate them.

Calling someone "Fanboy" should be a hate crime! Okay, maybe not, but the ire that drips from the comments about Apple product owners is poisonous. I'm waiting for the day when someone is gunned down for saying how much they like their iPhone.

In the end, this is all about a hardening of the "us vs. them" in this society. People are more and more unreasonable as the years go on. They make value decisions and then hate anyone that doesn't agree with them, much less openly endorse the opposite view.

The iPhone vs. Android debate is getting even more heated as the race between platforms gets tighter. Even if the iPhone was somehow able to do something that no other phone could do (like teleport you or something) there would still be people calling it's enthusiasts "Fanboys" as if they were delusional. If the technology swung the other way and Google or Microsoft came out on top, there would still be a small group that hung onto their iPhones. Maybe then they would be Fanboys. Delusional. But in the meantime, because someone endorses a product and that product is not inherently inferior, it is delusional to hate them.