“When my wife was 6 months pregnant with our first child, she asked me a random question while I was in the middle of watching an NFL game. She asked ‘honey, do these clothes make me look fat to you?’ Without thinking too much, I answered that ‘it is all good dear, I’m very confident that you will fit in your clothes again in no time.’ Took me a few days to figure out why such an honest answer would unleash such a passionate and simple response like silence; it was very deafening,” The Ugly Truth writes for Seeking Alpha.
“For those of you who have read my short thesis on Research in Motion and have also read most of the colorful discussions within the articles, you will know that I truly understand what it is like to have a contrarian point of view on a company that may be very well liked,” The Ugly Truth writes. “However, why is it so difficult to find a sound article that has a contrarian view on Apple (AAPL)? If there was a good bearish article on Apple, how do we know if it is worth our time to worry about it?”
The Ugly Truth writes, “Given that Apple is widely followed here on SA and given that it will be releasing earnings in a few weeks, it would not be a surprise to see articles about ‘regression to the mean,’ ‘channel checks,’ or ‘supply constraints.’ Is it really that difficult to understand the ‘Cult of Mac?’ …The ‘Cult of Mac’ isn’t really as complicated as the pretenders may want you to believe. Simply, ‘Fanboys’ do not tolerate sensationalistic opinions bashing Apple spun as facts.”
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‘channel checks,’ or ‘supply constraints.’
Well, we do hear about these, but the news always sounds good.
Simply, ‘Fanboys’ do not tolerate sensationalistic opinions bashing Apple spun as facts.”
Correct.
From John Winger in Stripes: That’s the fact, Jack.
I Wish: “Simply, ‘Americans’ do not tolerate sensationalistic opinions bashing “The Other Side” spun as facts.”
1 critical thinking.
I thought I typed plus one, oh well.
It’s simply that certain people with above average intellect enjoy using well above average products. A Mac or other Apple products fall within that above average product range.
I check out C.O.M. from time-to-time and one thing continues to bother me. They often have a snarky, holier than thou, attitude that takes a negative view of things Apple. It’s like they go out of their way to needle and poke fun of those who support Apple (not necessarily limited to rabid fanbois either). I think this is called, “Biting the hand that feeds you.” – and it is annoying.
In this case, i do not think the subject is the website in particular
When he was closing with his thought that an iPad mini would “follow the strategy of containment” he lost it. If Apple pursues a product offering to contain the competition then they aren’t fulfilling Job’s goal of (instead of containment) producing great products they’d love to recommend to family members. We’ll see what we see when we see it.
What are you talking about? “Containment” is exactly the policy Apple pursued with the iPod and iPhone. You start by pushing the edge with a new product, even if that means a higher price. Then you expand downward with lower-priced models to keep the competitors from under-cutting you with their copies.
The iPod was followed by the iPod mini, then the iPod nano, then the iPod shuffle. When anyone with $75 could get the real thing, that effectively killed the rest of the digital music player market.
The top-of-the-line iPhone is the 4S, but Apple now offers the 3GS for FREE with a contract. Keeping the older models of iPhone in production at lower prices prevents Android from taking all the lower-price market. “Containment”.
“Containment” doesn’t mean “make crap”. It just means that you cover more of the price spectrum as you go forward to prevent your competitors from establish dominance in the lower priced regions with their cheap, crappy copies.
——RM
Little is known on the Cult of Mac, what? Once you go Apple, few ever leave. Hard to get info when few ever escape the Jobs Reality Feild! Ummmm….. Leave the Nexus!
Use the most compelling products you can find. Most of the time they happen to emanate from Apple
Nothing to see here. Pure page view stuff.
I Did not read COM since they endorsed a malware named mackeeper.
“Simply, ‘Fanboys’ do not tolerate sensationalistic opinions bashing Apple spun as facts.”
So, being an advocate for the truth makes one a “fanboy”… and a “cultist”?
Who would have thought?
Misleading labels do not change facts.
??? Do people even read the articles on this site? This has nothing to do with “Cult of Mac” the website. The article is on Seeking Alpha and is a pretty fascinating look at how a small number of facts get spun into a web of anti-Apple bullsh*t. Kinda surprised it didn’t get the “highly recommended” nod from MDN.
——RM
The next time I see “Mac fanboy” somebody is going to die.
Well, nearly 2 whole people die each second throughout the world (actually 1.74, statistically, in case that sounded a little weird). So chances are you are correct. And chances are it would happen at the exact moment you heard someone use that phrase.
I actually thought the article was about the website.
I stopped going there after the MDN link to one of their stories led to ‘Cult of Android’. A stupid robot logo on the back of the guy’s head in place of the Apple and an Apple-bashing news item.
Seriously bipolar.