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ArmpitOfDeath

01-03-2007, 11:06 PM

It's getting really annoying now with any little crappy story as long as it's Mac related zipping to the front page. How does it happen? Is the Digg membership infested by Jobs-worshipping hordes?

Or is Rose's drooling fanboyism catching to the diggnation membership? Probably unlikely as I have a Mac Pro and 2 Macbook Pros, I never miss an episode of diggnation since I started watching it and still feel an urge to give the Apple Horde the finger. Thank God we have Albrecht to give a noncommital 'meh' balance on the show at least...

casework

01-03-2007, 11:11 PM

Simple answer: it's the stories that the "masses" want to see.

If I'm honest, I haven't frequented Digg for months now. With the huge surge in users, it's become much less democracy driven and much more mob based.

rowlodge

01-03-2007, 11:21 PM

geeks out there posting hundreds and hundreds of stories and the same poster being mentioned twice on digg by kevin, looks like the work of one guy.

kowgod

01-03-2007, 11:39 PM

This is why I avoid the front page(s) and only digg what my friends digg. The people I have listed as friends on digg tend to be smart and interesting, so, chances are, they digg things smart and, well, interesting.

Either way I read some interesting stuff.

beta7

01-04-2007, 02:17 AM

mac or pc their both the same to me... different brand but both the same... and i choose the one with more capabilities... and in this case its the PC, why? its got games!

minik

01-04-2007, 02:42 AM

Besides the Apple bias.. The majority of Digg users are anti-PS3, which I don't understand why. Why hate it?

IMHO, I only comment on what I have experienced.

phatlip12

01-04-2007, 03:30 AM

ArmpitOfDeath

01-04-2007, 09:13 AM

There has been a "cult like following" of Apple for sometime now. Its no more surprising that this exists on Digg then it would on any other site as well. Digg just has alot of the Apple fanboys (myself included in that list...hence the avy ;) )

Yes, but it used to be a niche cult which I didn't have to come into contact with if I didn't want to, a bunch of people who were so satisfied with themselves for 'thinking different' when all it really boils down to is a prettier computer with training wheels.

Damn the iPod halo. I'm lost in admiration and disgust at the same time :p

beta7

01-04-2007, 09:46 AM

Besides the Apple bias.. The majority of Digg users are anti-PS3, which I don't understand why. Why hate it?

IMHO, I only comment on what I have experienced.

sony lies alot, their early release on consols have issues like eg. first psp had some loose parts in some psp models etc... and they lied about the graphics on the ps3... and honestly the whole ps3 is an overpriced hunk-o-junk (then again this is just my opinion, so dont let what i think of the ps3 cloud your judgement)

minik

01-04-2007, 11:20 PM

Regarding to lying .. I believe most Fortune 500 companies do that as well. I'm not saying it's acceptable, but it's the reality sad to say.

I just I'm just brainwashed by Apple and Sony.

chelseakmoylan

01-05-2007, 10:57 AM

because apple is the best ever :)

even though they had my computer at the genius bar for a month... but at least they gave me a brand new slightly better one to replace my old one they couldn't fix

beta7

01-05-2007, 01:25 PM

i'll probably never like apple... reason being is that im a gamer and apple has what? 6 games...

masherscf

01-05-2007, 02:39 PM

Asking about an Apple bias is like asking about a Mercedes bias.

casework

01-05-2007, 04:54 PM

i'll probably never like apple... reason being is that im a gamer and apple has what? 6 games...

Or try, Apple has most of the games that Windows does, and for what they don't have, you can run Windows on your Apple machine. Come on man, it's 2007.

phatlip12

01-05-2007, 06:41 PM

Or try, Apple has most of the games that Windows does, and for what they don't have, you can run Windows on your Apple machine. Come on man, it's 2007.

A little birdie told me that Apple is working on a new feature in Leopard called "Osmosis". Apparently its been in development for 5+ years now and will allow for windows programs to be run in OSX at 95% near native quality. How true it is I have no clue, maybe we will find out at mac world.

ArmpitOfDeath

01-05-2007, 09:28 PM

Or try, Apple has most of the games that Windows does, and for what they don't have, you can run Windows on your Apple machine. Come on man, it's 2007.

This is typical of the talk of the Apple Horde.

First of all, Bwahahaha to the first.

Secondly, yes - and yes to Phatlip's little bird - you can do all that but if what you do is general purpose computing and gaming, exactly what is the actual benefit of moving to Mac if you're running Windows (or if what you do is just as well achieved in Windows - let's say you're running Firefox for example) for most of what you actually do on the machine? You don't get flexibility of hardware for one. OS X is no more stable in real life, especially given the severe restriction on the hardware ecosystem. Sure it's less virus prone but it is perfectly possible to be totally malware-free in Windows. Vista is/will be just as solid, and despite Microsoft's 'lack of taste' you can no longer say that anything is actually holding you back in Windows, visually or otherwise. The DRM stuff is scaremongering, cuz it'll be there (and will likely be just as underutilized in real life) on OS X as well.

Besides the prettiness - and as we all know, unsophisticated people can be blinded by just that - I fail to see the fundamental advantages of it to the level that people have to fanboy it up so much. And this comes from someone running Coherence on all his Macs.

_sorrow_

01-06-2007, 02:07 AM

I think that the reason for the Apple bias on digg is right up there with the linux and google bias: People tend to be rather partial to their OS -- especially if it is in competition with windows, which automatically has a majority of news and stories simply because the number of users is so much higher than that of the others. And the google bias? Well, its google, ya know? :rolleyes:

beta7

01-06-2007, 03:43 AM

Or try, Apple has most of the games that Windows does, and for what they don't have, you can run Windows on your Apple machine. Come on man, it's 2007.

i know you can run windows on a mac now... reason i dont is because i personaly hate the intel processor due to past experience but who knows i might love em again.... and the most important of all reason is that you cant easily fix things inside of your mac especialy since its all compact and to upgrade your mac you pretty much have to buy a new one... (not to mention that their really overpriced)

casework

01-06-2007, 06:22 PM

This is typical of the talk of the Apple Horde.

First of all, Bwahahaha to the first.

Secondly, yes - and yes to Phatlip's little bird - you can do all that but if what you do is general purpose computing and gaming, exactly what is the actual benefit of moving to Mac if you're running Windows (or if what you do is just as well achieved in Windows - let's say you're running Firefox for example) for most of what you actually do on the machine? You don't get flexibility of hardware for one. OS X is no more stable in real life, especially given the severe restriction on the hardware ecosystem. Sure it's less virus prone but it is perfectly possible to be totally malware-free in Windows. Vista is/will be just as solid, and despite Microsoft's 'lack of taste' you can no longer say that anything is actually holding you back in Windows, visually or otherwise. The DRM stuff is scaremongering, cuz it'll be there (and will likely be just as underutilized in real life) on OS X as well.

Besides the prettiness - and as we all know, unsophisticated people can be blinded by just that - I fail to see the fundamental advantages of it to the level that people have to fanboy it up so much. And this comes from someone running Coherence on all his Macs.
I'm not trying to switch anyone here, but it's just ignorant to try to use incompatibility in the argument against Macs.

It's not 1994 anymore, dude.

i know you can run windows on a mac now... reason i dont is because i personaly hate the intel processor due to past experience but who knows i might love em again.... and the most important of all reason is that you cant easily fix things inside of your mac especialy since its all compact and to upgrade your mac you pretty much have to buy a new one... (not to mention that their really overpriced)

Please at least know what you're talking about before you start saying stuff like that.

That's all I ask.

darknessgp

01-06-2007, 09:22 PM

ArmpitOfDeath, just go into your manage topics within your profile and turn off apple stories if it bothers you that much.

@_sorrow_, that is a wrong statement, atleast with the majority of news because of the number of users. There is a reason Digg does not have a "Microsoft"/"Windows" section on Digg. And that reason is that there are not enough stories that directly involve the company/OS to warrent it. That is why we have software, programming, hardware, etc. Because these are things that are not specific to Windows, but the majority of people reading/using it use Windows.

masherscf

01-06-2007, 09:32 PM

It's getting really annoying now with any little crappy story as long as it's Mac related zipping to the front page...

This is patently untrue. Plenty of MAC and Apple related storys fail to make it. This link for example: http://digg.com/apple/Steve_Wozniak_and_the_Growth_of_Apple_Woz_promotes _his_book_iWoz_on_WNYC.

The fact that Apple creates such buzz is not Diggs doing but a by-product of brilliant Apple marketing.

I'm no MAC fan boy and I don't own a MAC or iPod. However, this MAC hating is preposterous.

So MAC-users can be snobs, so what. People who drive BMWs or wear Ralph Lauren can be snobs to. It doesn't mean the products are shit.

ArmpitOfDeath

01-06-2007, 11:56 PM

ArmpitOfDeath

01-06-2007, 11:57 PM

This is patently untrue. Plenty of MAC and Apple related storys fail to make it. This link for example: http://digg.com/apple/Steve_Wozniak_and_the_Growth_of_Apple_Woz_promotes _his_book_iWoz_on_WNYC.

The fact that Apple creates such buzz is not Diggs doing but a by-product of brilliant Apple marketing.

I'm no MAC fan boy and I don't own a MAC or iPod. However, this MAC hating is preposterous.

So MAC-users can be snobs, so what. People who drive BMWs or wear Ralph Lauren can be snobs to. It doesn't mean the products are shit.

Not patently untrue where I'm standing. Every time I log onto digg there's some worthless Apple story that wouldn't make the grade if it was on Windows. It's not snobbery at all - it's just major-league drooling fanboyism at work.

ArmpitOfDeath

01-07-2007, 12:01 AM

I'm not trying to switch anyone here, but it's just ignorant to try to use incompatibility in the argument against Macs.

It's not 1994 anymore, dude.

What is so ignorant about what I said?

masherscf

01-07-2007, 12:13 AM

Not patently untrue where I'm standing. Every time I log onto digg there's some worthless Apple story that wouldn't make the grade if it was on Windows. It's not snobbery at all - it's just major-league drooling fanboyism at work.

It's a false statement if even one Apple story fails to make the front page.

Most of the stories that make Digg are complete trash from my point of view. Why should the Apple ones be different.

casework

01-07-2007, 12:16 AM

What is so ignorant about what I said?

Considering my original post was replying to someone else's comments, I was referring to their ignorance, not yours.

ArmpitOfDeath

01-07-2007, 12:53 AM

Then please quote properly so that I don't have to waste time sharpening heavy-handed ironies to no avail.

casework

01-07-2007, 01:10 AM

Then please quote properly so that I don't have to waste time sharpening heavy-handed ironies to no avail.

You responded to my comment towards beta7.

This is typical of the talk of the Apple Horde.

I wasn't trying to make a big deal out of anything, I was just responding to some of the ignorant comments he made, and you responded with that. If you want me to just ignore you, then I can go ahead and do that, because it seems like a pretty good idea right now.