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Jul 29, 10 - 12:17 pm Comment from: Greg L

And Steve Jobs is our messiah. *Shhhh* (He’s thinking. I think he might speak.)

Jul 29, 10 - 12:17 pm Comment from: MidWest Mac

Every Fox News pundit I know despises academics. Funny they thought it was worth reporting this one.

Fox News is a religion. Millions of Americans watch and listen to this fiction and blindly believe what they are told, mistakenly taking it as "fact"

MDN still watching Fox News...and we all thought you were Fair and Balanced.

I stood in line to get tickets for The Who once: that makes Roger Daltrey my deity? No wonder why I disliked college: the profs!

aggies should not be allowed to do "research"!!!

PR,

Dear knee-jerk liberal, you might want to read past the headline before posting next time.

If you did, you'd find that MDN is ripping FOX News and their "reporter" to shreds.

Thank you for your time, you reactionary simpleton. No wonder you voted for Obama.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:28 pm Comment from: Macromancer

Apple's success is for a reason, it's no accident.

People on the outside looking in cannot rationalize it with facts so they have to assign these bullsh*t religious metaphors to Apple in an effort to understand it.

Sorry folks but the days of declaring Apple is for fanboys only is over.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:29 pm Comment from: breeze

Heck, they claim Global Warming is a religion too...

Jul 29, 10 - 12:29 pm Comment from: CrizzoDesigns

Only difference is our God comes bearing us gifts:

iPhone
iPad
iPods
iMac
MacBooks
MacBook Pros
Mac Pros

and um.. MobileMe.... yeah!

Jul 29, 10 - 12:30 pm Comment from: Macdoc

So will FaceBook have a Draw Steve Jobs Day?

Jul 29, 10 - 12:30 pm Comment from: Tiger Leopard

Opinion is news to Fox.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:32 pm Comment from: Macromancer

*** my apologies for bad grammar before, I was spitting mad when i typed it.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:33 pm Comment from: theloniousMac

@Tiger Leopard

And one opinion is all you get, from all the other traditional "news" outlets combined.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:34 pm Comment from: flappo

why not , i bet there's a lot less people been killed in the name of the mac compared to the other mainstream religions

The design flaw of the iPhone is in the placement of the antenna, not the fact that it attenuates. Engineers at cell phone companies are well aware of the attenuation issue, and that's why none of them were stupid enough to wrap the antenna around the outer rim of the phone.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:35 pm Comment from: RamaFan

Opinion is news to every news station these days.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:35 pm Comment from: unfungus

Well you know if FoxNews says it's true ....

Research from Texas A&M? You can't be serious!

Aren't they in Dell Country?

At "First 2010, then 2012". At least the liberals require a knee.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:40 pm Comment from: gksmith

Sounds like someone got a research grant and had to make a flashy pronouncement so the money appeared well-spent.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:40 pm Comment from: Cascadians

Ignoramuses have been saying Apple is a religion for decades.

Obviously they haven't used an Apple product or they'd be converted and understand ;^D

What is amusing is how much sheer idiotic commentary Apple inspires. These asinine 'reporters' are so far from reality that all they do is reveal their own mental illnesses.

Show me any "news" from Fow News that doesn't contain this kind of sensationalized, inaccurate reporting...

Dear First 2010, then 2012
Steve is also a simpleton since he voted for Obama?

Go buy a Droid, Steve is a progressive, burn.

There's a difference between having faith in Apple and having faith in a deity; Apple actually exists.

As a stockholder, I wish aapl were a religion. Being tax exempt would have a nice impact on their bottom line.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:44 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

This from the network with the religious persecution complex. Fitting, no?

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to plan my next attack on Christmas.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:44 pm Comment from: Cascadians

Unfortunately I cannot chime in on the handholding debate because the lesser god ATT has deemed me unworthy of a subsidized upgrade at this time. However, I would hold the new object of veneration however was most comfortable. Never did fit in any church too well, LOL

Jul 29, 10 - 12:46 pm Comment from: lurker

If you read the paper, she explains the Apple "religion" through the supposed existence of several MYTHS which are common to all religions. In other words, she says all religions are based on myths and those myths are in existence for Apple, therefore Apple is a religion.

All cars have wheels, a wagon has wheels, therefore a wagon is a car.

This person is a PhD? This is a published paper? Faux News thinks people who believe religions are based on myths speak to their audience? Wow.

"It's not a matter of rationality, it's a matter of faith,"
It is matter of STATISTICS you $tupid!!!!!
If a company came out ALWAYS first with the best design and UI and the best quality products over and over again, the user expect the next product to be the best of the best too. It is not Faith, it is simply mathematics...

Religion is like microsoft, they came with worse product everytime and ignorant people still buying it.

Faith in religion is when we believe with our see, and the only one that we can really trust is God, with apple we can expect good products but we know some day they can fail. With Mircrosoft, you can only expect the worse.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:58 pm Comment from: Macromancer

@ChrissyOne - well played ;^)

Furthermore I find it funny the network of hate and fear would publish a story about Apple using the exact same template they use to describe people of other religions. They are fanatic!! Because describing them as mindless lunatic fanatics absolves their viewers from having to rub a couple brain cells together to actually understand what lies beneath, because understanding generally relieves people of fear, and that goes against the Fox news agenda.

Fox News: All fear, All the time.

Jul 29, 10 - 12:59 pm Comment from: Spark

You guys ripping FOX for this please note that this idiotic report is from university academics at Texas A & M.

"Prof. Heidi Campbell, one of the authors of the study, told FoxNews.com."

Get it? Fox news didn't say these things, the good Professor said them.

For people that do not believe in God and actively want to destroy the idea of faith in a higher power than man, this type of report is typical. For these people religion is "The State" "Technology" "Science" "The Corporation" "The People" .

As GK Chesterton says (paraphrasing): When people do not believe in God, they do not "believe in nothing", they "believe in anything".

No, Apple devotees are won over by the vision, the product and the service behind it all. A former colleague used to mock Apple, until he bought an iPod (and then another). But he still mocked the Mac... until his HP laptop failed and he bought a 24" iMac. Now he gushes over his Mac. Is he now one of the "faithful"? Or is his attitude based on reason and experience?

Jul 29, 10 - 01:01 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Spark

You're projecting. Not everyone needs something to be religion.

Jul 29, 10 - 01:02 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

"When people do not believe in God, they do not "believe in nothing", they "believe in anything"."

Yeah, that's the way it works. o.O

You need some science in your life, stat.

Jul 29, 10 - 01:03 pm Comment from: FutureMedia

Been my religion for 26 years since 1984. So not that new really. 

There's really no denying it - Apple is like a religion to many. Much of their behavior is eerily similar to that of religious fanacists. Just like the death of a newborn is all part of God's plan, anything and everything Apple does is good, and there are no problems.

Jul 29, 10 - 01:10 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Bongo

I know people that feel the same way about 'Glee'.

Jul 29, 10 - 01:10 pm Comment from: MidWest Mac

It's a good thing these are top of the line computers or I'd sure feel pretty stupid.

Jul 29, 10 - 01:11 pm Comment from: Think

How about "they make a computer that actually works".

They make a phone that is "easy" to use.

Maybe the AppleStrong follow the products and the company religiously. But it's not out of adoration and worship you morons.

The Apple religion is of vision, brilliance, excellence and innovation. Oh yeah. And style. Count me as a follower.

Buy the way, if a PROFESSOR is not smart enough to know that's why people follow Apple, I feel sorry for the poor bastard's students.

Obviously that doesn't apply for everyone but there are enough to notice, several on this board in fact.

Jul 29, 10 - 01:17 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

Perhaps, Spark, but we believe what we want to read, see, and hear and Fox News is providing a service to its fan base.

Christmas is a religion, Santa Clause is their messiah, Capitalism is the dogma, and gold is their God-standard.

Banks are temples and Wall Street is the place where the high priests practice their black arts.

That's just my opinion, however not even a grant from a prestigious university to illuminate the unwashed would garner enough attention to make Fox News.

This is crap! Next thing there will be a news flash about Steve Jobs being sent to Salem,MA and being tried for Heresy by all the non-believers!

Jul 29, 10 - 01:21 pm Comment from: qka

2 minutes of research reveals that Professor Heidi Campbell has had her "work" published by right wing Christian publishing houses.

No wonder Fox repeats her nonsense.

iGod

Jul 29, 10 - 01:24 pm Comment from: elgarak

I did not buy a Mac because Apple is God and Jobs is his prophet.

I bought it because it was the best product on the market. Religion had nothing to do with it.

Jul 29, 10 - 01:25 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

These professors look out at a see of Apple logos and think, wow the worm has turned. Gone are the thinkpads and Dells, replaced by glowing apples. Scary. Scary.

Fear drives men to irrational thought and obviously they found something startling just being in a dark room with glowing fruit!

Jul 29, 10 - 01:25 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

@ Bongo,

Most, if not all, Apple Product users have used Windows on a PC.

Could the Religious Zeal be nothing more than joy at finding an electronics product that actually works without requiring a fully staffed IT department?

Jul 29, 10 - 01:25 pm Comment from: rosswell

I'm a total Apple acolyte, but I do regret the fact that the iPhone got out the door with that design flaw. Not like them.

On the other hand, here's just one typical example of genius Apple design: the magsafe, magnetic power connectors for laptop power cords.

Innovative, instant advantage, "why did no one think of it before"- type of thing that keeps me attending Apple church.