Perspective An Apple fanboy's lament

There's a word for people like me--people who blindly love the products of one company or another. We call them "fanboys."

I'm an Apple fanboy. I love Apple products because they are sexy and cool. Oh, I recognize my behavior is sycophantic, but I love my Apple toys. I use them myself and give them as gifts. To date I have owned at least one of every iPod, several Mac computers, and yes, I carry an iPhone.

I'm an Apple fanboy. I love Apple products because they are sexy and cool. Oh, I recognize my behavior is sycophantic, but I love my Apple toys. I use them myself and give them as gifts. To date I have owned at least one of every iPod, several Mac computers, and yes, I carry an iPhone.

I've discarded perfectly good tech toys when new Apple products came out. For example, there was nothing wrong with my Blackberry Pearl. It was probably a better phone than my iPhone. With voice dial, the ability to send picture MMS messages and sync my contacts with my car over Bluetooth, it met my needs well. But it just wasn't as sexy as the iPhone. Ironically, I still carry my Blackberry for work e-mail.

Similarly, the iPod was not my first MP3 player. When I bought my iPod I knew that there were other MP3 devices that stored more songs, had better battery life, supported more music formats, and cost less money. Yet I've bought multiple iPods because, well, they are just so pretty. With all my music now in iTunes I can't imagine the pain of trying to transition to something else.

So why do I continue to buy these Apple toys when I know there are better, though uglier, options? I have to really consider...what is the hidden cost of all this beauty?

If I step outside my fanboy shoes, perhaps I would discover

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