# Apple "people" suck! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161 "2001-01-09T15:31:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161/21 "2001-01-10T01:23:48Z")
Great story Soul! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161/22 "2001-01-10T06:48:20Z")
Donā€™t ever ask about sound processing or 3D software for PCs in the presence of Mac fanatics. They will take it upon themselves to tell you that you canā€™t do that on PCs and you need to buy a Mac. This happened in these forums a couple of months ago. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161/23 "2001-01-10T14:04:11Z")
There ya go **rjung** , you just had to help prove my point. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161/24 "2001-01-10T20:53:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by soulsling \* > \*\*There ya go **rjung** , you just had to help prove my point. :rolleyes: \*\* Well, I canā€™t help it if you have poor taste in subject titles. šŸ™‚ (Tip oā€™ the Day: Replace the word ā€œAppleā€ with the name of any ethnic, national, or religious group. Then **donā€™t** use that as a thread subject) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161/25 "2001-01-10T22:04:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by soulsling \* > > \*\*There ya go **rjung** , you just had to help prove my point. :rolleyes: \*\* > > Well, I canā€™t help it if you have poor taste in subject titles. šŸ™‚ > > (Tip oā€™ the Day: Replace the word ā€œAppleā€ with the name of any ethnic, national, or religious group. Then **donā€™t** use that as a thread subject) > \*\* You must be kidding. Are you seriously suggesting that his use of ā€œApple peopleā€ to describe **people** working in an **Apple** store - followed, I might add, by a story that didnā€™t even remotely suggest his complaints referred to Apple end users - is equivalent to actual offensive racial slurs? Are you even implying that such an innocuous phrase is the same as uttering filthy lies about blacks, Jews, etc.? Good Lord, whatā€™s next? PC users demanding they be covered by hate crime legislation? UNIX adherents lobbying for UNIX command lines to be taught as a second language? Right-wing fundies demanding a return to Commodore 64s? The Million Mac March? This is IMHO, and so here are My Humble Opinions: 1. If you are offended by the term ā€œApple people,ā€ you spend too much time on the damned computer. You may insert equivalent titles for Wintel users and itā€™s still true. 2. What computer you use is not a basis for a civil rights complaint. 3. To compare the Apple-Wintel Computer/OS Holy War to racial or ethnic discrimination is just dumb. 4. ā€œApple peopleā€ or ā€œPC peopleā€ are not identifiable groups deserving of collective respect and non-offensive language sops any more than, say ā€œWestinghouse toaster peopleā€ or ā€œPeople who still donā€™t own DVD players.ā€ I mean, give us a break. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161/26 "2001-01-10T22:25:48Z")
**RickJay** , you have a better way with words than I do. Never was my strong point. **rjung** , no. Because using the term ā€œApple Peopleā€ in no way relates to any indigenous type of anyone. If it does, where exactly did you (because of your vehement defensive nature on ā€œApple Peopleā€ itā€™s understood by me at least that you consider yourself oneā€¦) come from? Iā€™ve never heard of the land of ā€œApple Peopleā€. What type of culture exists there? Please, Iā€™ll phone up the archeologists and the Smithsonian and get them on this right away, this new discovery of a land with indigenous Apple People must be understood better! :rolleyes: If you do consider yourself one of these people **rjung** , do you also consider yourself elite to anyone else? Are you so special because of the type of computer you use? What rights should we allow the ā€œApple Peopleā€ since they are obviously being treated so unfairlyā€¦? Cā€™mon guy! Give it up! You are taking something as insult personally that was never an insult to anyone other than the type of person that pretends that being a Mac User is all there is to life and no one else is important. Enough so that the behavior of such a person is one where they are rude to others, scoff at others, and fear constant rejection from the rest of the world that is not ā€œMacā€. If you are one of those people, then I apologize for all this, and I truly do mean the insult towards you as well, but only if you really are one of the ā€œApple Peopleā€. ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161/27 "2001-01-11T02:14:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > \*\*I notice youā€™re in NYC. Donā€™t know where you went, but wherever it is, it isnā€™t the only show in town. Try TekServe: 155 West 23 Street 4th Floor between 6 and 7 Ave. (although they do use the ā€œtake a numberā€ system, there are benches to sit down on, reading material freely available (decent stuff, too), and no Barbie-&-Ken-doll types waiting on you, just geeks with Torx screwdrivers and VRAM modules sticking out of their pockets. > > \*\* This may be less Appleā€™s fault than the geographic area youā€™re in. Thereā€™s a transplanted NYC electronics store in my town, and they too use the ā€œTake A Numberā€ system. You wanna get a piece of software out of the case? Take a number, my friend! Itā€™s all kind of stupid, and the storeā€™s reknowned amongst people I know for being run by scam artists, to boot. Donā€™t give your money to people like this. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161/28 "2001-01-11T02:15:50Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by soulsling \* > **rjung** , no. Because using the term ā€œApple Peopleā€ in no way relates to any indigenous type of anyone._\* I know, but _some_ people may take it as such. Judging from the responses you got initially, itā€™s a nontrivial number. And remember, it wasnā€™t ā€œApple people,ā€ it was ā€œApple ā€˜peopleā€™ā€ ā€“ a form of punctuation that could be interpreted as meaning that Apple users were not people at all. (ā€œLook at Frank! What an insensitive jerk! Thatā€™s the kind of behavior you get from sub-human UNIX ā€˜peopleā€™ā€¦ā€) Bottom line: A well-crafted sentence couldā€™ve saved a bit of a headache. šŸ˜‰ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-people-suck/49161.md?page=1)