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*

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1. fanboyhater says:

   April 6, 2011 at 10:41 am

   i like your blog here against fanboyism. . fanboys in computer games are even more intense . .

   i’m currently annoyed by fanboy comments i see in a youtube video of a trailer of the upcoming Battlefield 3 . . i like the battlefield series . . but i love other first person shooter games as well. . such as Call of Duty (especially the modern warfare series), medal of honor, crysis and such . .

   but these battlefield fanboys are bashing and hating on every FPS game ever released . . and with them bashing on games i love . . it just doesn’t feel good . . it’s like someone just shouted that your mother looks like crap . . or something like that

   and i think the end result is that people will avoid whatever product that these fanboys are so loyally defending using aggressive and violent words . . just to prove these fanboys wrong . .

   fanboys are an asset to a company as they are sure profits upon product launching . . but at the same time being a liability by driving possible investments away from their product with their hate, instead of wooing people to try and love it . .

   sorry for my rant (^ ^,b

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