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rtabdo

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I've been following MacRumors for a while now, but not really the forums. I recently joined the forums and I notice a lot of people who don't like Apple or just have more negative things to say.

Is this something thats has always been around? Or is this relatively new? For example, you hear a lot of people complaining about iPhone and iPhone OS and now the iPad. I'm wondering if the same thing was going on during the debut of iPhone for the "lack of keyboard" or when the Macbook Air came out for "lack of cd rom"

I dunno if it's just me, but seems like the Steve Jobs/Apple "hate" has noticeably grown.
 
I think it has always been like this ... there have always been people here that are either just negative about products or trolling. I just ignore them.
 
The most hard-core fans complain the loudest. And about the most irrelevant things, too. It's really strange, but is most definitely true from what I've seen on Internet forums.
 
Yeah, I mean people are going nuts over this new developer agreement stuff with the iPhone 4.0 and it just seems like the Apple "hate" has grown larger than ever.

I think part of it has to do with Apple being on top. It's somewhat normal to see the top company get criticized the most.

Anyways, fill me in guys. Is this "hate" normal? Or are we seeing more of it these days?
 
rtabdo said:
I've been following MacRumors for a while now, but not really the forums. I recently joined the forums and I notice a lot of people who don't like Apple or just have more negative things to say.

Is this something thats has always been around? Or is this relatively new? For example, you hear a lot of people complaining about iPhone and iPhone OS and now the iPad. I'm wondering if the same thing was going on during the debut of iPhone for the "lack of keyboard" or when the Macbook Air came out for "lack of cd rom"

I dunno if it's just me, but seems like the Steve Jobs/Apple "hate" has noticeably grown.
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First time on the internet? I kid. I kid.

There will always be people who don't like something just because it's popular, and in my opinion there will always be people who like a thing waaayyyyy too much. I don't contend with the haters, but some people do need to be reminded, "It's just a computer. It's just a phone. They are here for us, not us for them. Let's get on with it."
blancoBronco said:
the only people who hate on apple are those who cant get an apple product
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This sort of thing might be worse than the 'haters' to be honest with you.
 
It has definitely gotten worse since I first starting reading this site years ago. Some reasons have already been given (Apple is more popular, so it attracts more trolls), but another reason is the astroturfing efforts by Microsoft. Several years ago, losing badly in online public opinion, Microsoft took their astroturfing efforts and unleashed them online.

So for example on Slashdot, a bunch of new users showed up and started modding down the anti-Microsoft talk. On a site where the icon for Bill Gates shows him as a Borg, this is quite a shift! But the Microsoft hordes took over and changed the tone.

I noticed that with the success of the iPod, when the Zune came out there were an amazing number of Zune lovers on this site. With the new iPad, there are a bunch of Slate fans here. Etc.

It's all over the Net, but you see it here on MacRumors too.
 
Part of the difference is that the iPhone is now owned by millions of people who are new to Apple and its sometimes frustratingly secretive and arbitrary decisions.

In other words, they're having normal customer reactions to the strange corporate behavior that Apple fans have either ignored or put up with for years. Jobs' RDF is more transparent to them.

Now, the overall increase in rudeness and lack of spelling ability on the internet is a different topic.
 
rtabdo said:
I've been following MacRumors for a while now, but not really the forums. I recently joined the forums and I notice a lot of people who don't like Apple or just have more negative things to say.

Is this something thats has always been around? Or is this relatively new? For example, you hear a lot of people complaining about iPhone and iPhone OS and now the iPad. I'm wondering if the same thing was going on during the debut of iPhone for the "lack of keyboard" or when the Macbook Air came out for "lack of cd rom"

I dunno if it's just me, but seems like the Steve Jobs/Apple "hate" has noticeably grown.
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welcome to MR

Do like me... sit.. have a beer and lol at the bitching
 
I think all this things are happening just because of human nature. As if a thing has 99 good qualities and only 1 bad quality then people will forget that 99 quality and say that thing is bad because of it's one bad quality. I think that's what people are doing with iPad and that's mostly because iPad is Apple's product. And it's a big brand and people used to find problems in big brand easily.
 
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