So, Apple tries to gain market share. Which company hasn’t tried?

Unethical means Abhishek! Snooping Safari via iTunes update is ethical? Isn’t it much like a spyware? It was hailed as a great act!

Canonical is trying to do the same thing by blatantly copying Mac OS X

Nothing new. Mac’s core/kernel itself is copied. –> Mach+BSD.

Being a fanboy isn’t that bad, but still when someone blindly bashes anything not Apple and praises everything Apple, its looks stupid.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong in appreciating quality.

Oh Shiny mentality should not be the *only* reason for hailing it as “it rocks’. Sadly it is what happens usually.

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This blog post wasn’t meant to be hurt anyone’s feelings. But still, hailing everything as revolutionary is a something which sucks. Many of the mac-fanboys do this just because they want to show themselves as cool. I am giving my point as a person outside the Mac-community. How do general people perceive this fanboyish-ism.
Those who praise Mac after weighing all the + and - factors are one who don’t deserve to be worried. Still, the irony is that quite a less Mac fanboys weight the +/- points.

Canonical is trying to do the same thing by blatantly copying Mac OS X(as Shuttleworth said on a blog post). Call me a fanboy or use whichever other term but that’s not going to stop me from talking about the things I love.

As far as the so-called “Oh, shiny” mentality is concerned, I don’t think there’s anything wrong in appreciating quality. As I can make out, you don’t think implementing incremental backups with an excellent GUI is innovation. I guess you wont think other things like the Walkman or LCD panels are innovative because they do the things other products have done in the past.

When I use a Mac, or any other product for that matter, judging them while being critical is the least I could do.

Let us now split these community of fanboys further:
1. Those fanboys which know what they are talking about and know how to program using Mac SDK(or whatever you call it).They know the internals of a Mac
2. The self-declared uber-cool Mac fanatics who feel horny just at the slightest mention of the word “Apple” or “Mac”.