Fanboyism is getting old

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

In every post you see about the iPad 2 launch on Engagdet, Techcrunch, Ars, et al there are people arguing in the comments about Android verus iOS (or people just bashing Apple). Why do these people care so much about the hardware / software on a device that they don’t own, don’t develop for, and for a company in which they don’t own stock?

When and why did people get this passionate about technology that doesn’t really impact their well-being?

Tangentially why does every clichéd reference of a blogger refer to him (never her), blogging from their parent’s dark basement?

*For the record, I’m blogging from my couch, in a house I pay a mortgage on (I don’t call that owning), while the kids are asleep, and thinking about not being at SxSW*