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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Monday, October 13, 2003

About Apple enthusiasm vs. tech enthusiasm
My blog is somehow being read by a number of Mac users, so maybe I should clarify things a bit. The aforementioned Mac-Mike identifies himself as an "Apple enthusiast," which means he loves everything Apple does and creates. I find that a bit sickening: Apple is a big corporation that makes good and bad decisions and products. It's an entity they want customers personalizing, and the company has done a good job of marketing itself as a brand people blindly love. As an organization, however, I find Apple to be dishonest with its customers, and that rankles me, especially when it's fans don't see the lies for what they are. But there's a big difference between an Apple enthusiast (or a Microsoft enthusiast, if such people exist) and a general tech enthusiast, which I am. Yeah, I do run one of the most popular Windows sites on the planet. But I'm no Microsoft fan: That company, like Apple, does things I just don't like, and I prefer to be honest about that, as with all things. When you're a fan of a company, you can't be objective about that company's claims, technologies, and products. To be clear, it's possible to be a Mac fan and not an Apple fan. That's what I am. And if you think about it, there's no contradiction there at all. Gosh, can someone really like the Mac and Windows? Yes. Can someone who likes the Mac not like Apple? Again, yes.

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