Pshaw.
Fanboys are a pain in the arse, whatever their flavour.
Personally I find Windows' fanboys to be considerably worse than Mac's, as in most cases mac users/fans have experience of Windows (granted, not always recent), and reasoning behind their decision: the VAST majority of Windows fanboys are mac-haters with no direct knowledge but a shitpotfull of hearsay reasoning, and their "logic" was untrue when it was applicable, which is 10-20 years ago. Amusingly I see the same with iOS/ Android, iTunes/anything and iPod/others: "Apple created it, Apple creates toys, therefore it is poo". Most of the time, this reasoning is balls.
Whilst that is true in the infantility of these red versus blue arguments, I do think that Windows fanboys exist in a retaliatory sense - there is no question that Mac users started it whether they are right or not. I am stuck with what I know now and that's that, but it does not mean I do not see the superiority of other platforms like OSX or Linux. On a professional level Windows is still banging square pegs into round holes, it's just that modern versions of the OS come with a much bigger hammers.
Without pointing fingers: what, precisely, is the benefit of the Android software licensing arrangement to the average phone user? The software licensing agreement is of precisely zero interest to 99.99% of the tens of millions of non-programmer phone users out there, but it is still used as the primary discriminator - "iOs isn't Open Source, ergo anyone with any sense should avoid it".
I have found that increasingly, young computer users are far, far more interested in programming than they have ever been. Probably because if you understand your OS's code you can then knock up an app that could make you some money, or just get you some kudos that is equally if not more important at that age. It used to be a nerds realm (no offence) but now it too is becoming fashionable. I expect my son to be able to code by the time he's 15, which will be about 20 years before I can.
(If I were a moderator, not that I have any experience in that persuasion, I may consider that this is thread-jacking)
That's only a problem if someone complains (that isn't the thread-jacker), and you know the pleasant and understanding bunch that we have here
