For the permanent Usenet record, one of the Type III apologists (Alan
Baker) recently infested a "search" thread on the Windows 10 newsgroup,
where no matter what was said, Alan claimed Apple does everything better.
That's fine... but for the permanent Usenet record, what's important to
_this_ thread on the insight into why Apple apologists are such strange
people, these posts today by VanguardLH and Mayayana are illustrative of a
different angle on the strange mind of the Apple apologists.
o *Why is search so brain dead these days?*
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https://alt.comp.os.windows-10.narkive.com/tHNllec9/why-is-search-so-brain-dead-these-days>
What you'll see below is how others (independent of me) characterize,
instantly, the Apple Apologists as "_inane children_" with an obvious
"_cult mentality_", and where adults quickly concluded the apologist
Alan Baker lacked "_reading comprehension_" capabilities.
Additionally, the concept that the Apple cult only believes what MARKETING
fed them to believe is _threatened_ by facts, also shows up in Mayayana's
characterizions below.
Synopses:
1. OP, Yousef Khan, asks for a solution to crappy Windows native search.
2. Plenty of people post purposefully helpful freeware solutions.
(Many of which were quite detailed and which took energy to compose.)
3. Alan Baker spends zero energy posting this un-helpful suggestion:
"*I suggest you try out a modern Mac and its Spotlight facility.*"
4. To which, pointedly, for one, Mayayana responds, as any adult might:
"But can Spotlight find it all on Windows?
I use Agent Ransack. It finds text in files, file name segments, etc,
at an amazing speed, and I don't need indexing...
5. Where Paul purposefully helpfully clarifies:
"Agent Ransack (a brute force [free] program), doesn't hook the journal.
It doesn't keep indexes, either filename only indexes (Everything.exe)
or filename+content indexes (Windows Search)."
6. To which, the apologist Alan Baker responds:
"*So they copied Spotlight!*"
7. Also responding to #3 Alan Baker above, VanguardLH points out:
"[Spotlight] is not a solution. Does nothing to address the problem.
Go inhabit your Mac newsgroups and stop bothering those using a
different OS than your choice."
8. To which the apologist Alan Baker purposefully unhelpfully responds:
"*I'll educate you about how much better it could be for you.*"
9. To which VanguardLH correctly characterizes Alan Baker as an...
"_inane child_"
More to the point of insight into the psychology of Apple Apolotists
10. Mayayana characterizes Alan Baker's responses to date as:
"This is actually another symptom of AppleSeed indoctrination.
Since they're a cult they assume Windows users are a cult.
They also see the hardware as part of the product.
That's why so many of them refer to "Wintel".
Macs are maybe 8% of the market, but most Mac users see it as a clash
of the titans.
Their monolithic device provider, Apple, vs the opposing, monolithic
device provider, Wintel. So, while we mostly don't think about Macs,
because there's simply no reason to, they're constantly thinking about
Wintel, their imagined competitor.
So Alan thinks the plural "you" is attacking the AppleSeed home base.
11. At around this point, VanguardLH realizes what apologists are, saying:
"Ah, [not only are you, Alan Baker, an inane child] you also have a
reading comprehension defect, too."
12. To which, shockingly, the Alan Baker apologist responds inanely:
"*Still not seeing how I failed of reading comprehension.*
*If you hook up a Windows formatted disk to a Mac, you can get*
*spotlight to index it and it will perform its usual continuous*
*indexing process."*
Finally, exasperated with this strange behavior of Apple apologists...
13. Mayana offers us this valuable insight into the "cult" mindset:
[Alan Baker is] an AppleSeed. Their knowledge consists of marketing
nuggets from Lord Jobs and disciple-in-chief Timmy Cook.
They'll always have a comeback because Apple marketing has trained them
in how to believe that Macs are better than anything else in the world.
I wouldn't be surprised if Advanced AppleSeed Training includes a
specific list of answers for Windows doubters, just like any good cult
has:
Q: "But I can use any one of 4 free programs on Windows to do XYZ.
What about Macs?"
A1: "The Apple version only costs $70 and it's much better."
A2 (inspired by Linux fanatics): "If you can't do it on a Mac
then you don't need it."
In summary, it's useful to see how others characterize, instantly, the
Apple Apologists as "_inane children_" with a "_cult mentality_", where
others who were being purposefully helpful in that thread quickly concluded
the apologist Alan Baker lacked "_reading comprehension_" capabilities.
Additionally, the concept that the Apple cult only believes what MARKETING
fed them to believe is _threatened_ by facts, also shows up in Mayayana's
characterizions above.
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It's quite revealing that all adults assess these apologists similarly.