Yes I remember there used to be similar arguments in the playground between the zx spectrum and commodore 64. Clearly the spectrum was better (just kidding). Back then it was the equivalent of my Dad is bigger than yours.
The point is stopped that nonsense when I grew up. I really can't understand how adults can be so obsessed about big companies.
MacHeads: The movie
Summary
Review: MacHeads is a superb film that will give Apple haters a few cheap laughs, and Apple fans a few cheap thrills. But it'll entertain both equally, while educating everybody else.
Topics
Prominent sex blogger and renowned Apple fangirl Violet Blue declares passionately that she'd never sleep with a Windows user. Dozens of Mac fanboys and girls drink and dance together at an Apple-centric party, jubilant that, for another year, Apple still exists. Girls hug their iMacs before tentatively handing them over to be repaired, while another caresses her Cinema Display, gently offering up a kiss to her Mac Pro's tower.
Apple fans are passionate people, both with each other and with the company's products. MacHeads, a new Chimp 65 Productions documentary from writer/director Kobi Shely and producer Ron Shely, documents the history of these Apple-lovers, looking at what underpins their fanatical obsessions. At just under an hour in length, this unbiased, unnarrated documentary takes a balanced approach to peeling the onion of Apple fanboyism. With insightful commentary from the likes of Apple Inc employee number one Daniel Kottke and ex-Apple employee and Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki, some of the compulsive fanboyism on display is mellowed by observations of what made an Apple fan an Apple fan in the first place.
It's the story of how a community of devoted tech fans banded together in the early days. How Macintosh user groups were formed, why they were formed, and what took place at their meetings. Interspersed with heaps of classic footage of the earliest MacWorld Expos, vintage Apple ads, trips to Macintosh museums and collectors' houses, and clips from classic computer TV shows, MacHeads provides a detailed and entertaining look not just at the fanboys themselves, but at why such groups exist at all.
Yet, although it's packed with comments from Apple fans such as, "Steve knows what people need before they know they need it," and how seeing Steve Jobs "live" has always been a dream, MacHeads could well sober up your average fanboy. Is Apple alienating its user groups? Is it becoming "another Microsoft" as it moves into new marketplaces, building on its past successes?
And of critical importance, can the Apple fanworld pull together like it did in 1996 as Apple was failing, when the company they idolize becomes less like a friend, more like a faceless business?
MacHeads is a superb film that will give Apple haters a few cheap laughs, and Apple fans a few cheap thrills. But it'll entertain both equally, while educating everybody else. It'll premiere this week at MacWorld - the last ever Apple will appear at - and you can order the movie later this year from MacHeadsthemovie.com, or at least check out the trailer.
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Anonymous Benefactor7th Jan 2009 -
Dark Knight or Machead?
Dark Knight or Machead ?
hard decision.
Anyways, Mac fanboys community is so damn boring, just a bunch of wannabe,eco-hippies,lonelygirl and pseudo cyber snobbist.
Windows fanboys community (if any) is even boring, in fact windows fanboy community currently have 1 member :Steve Ballmer.
Linux community otherwise is a new experience, where you can find a crown of creep/weird/mutant/cyberpunk/pirates/nerd/ninjas/penguin/guerrilla/hacker and even a couple of hamster, all in the same sack, or you could say, "Animal House" with more computer, more toga and less chick.
So, why they created a movie about Mac fanboys instead to miss to do a Linux fanboys movie?
magallanes7th Jan 2009 -
The answer is so obvious
So, why they created a movie about Mac fanboys instead to miss to do a Linux fanboys movie?
Since Brains X Beauty = Universal Constant, Mac fangirls are way hotter than Linux fangirls.
NonZealot7th Jan 2009 -
RE: MacHeads: The movie
Dangit! I have to use Windows at work. I guess that excludes me as
one of Violet Blue's potential bed mates.
IcyFog9th Jan 2009 -
Alternate title
"People who don't read."
Spiritusindomit@...11th Jan 2009
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