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Judson and Beasley were quite literally the prototypical fanboys. They also happened to be fictional characters, the creations of Jay Lynch and Glenn Bray. Lynch was the one who gave the publication its name.

The first printing of Fanboy just barely got distributed: Lynch says the press run was eleven copies. Two revised printings later in the 1970s also had minuscule circulations. Which is why Fanboy, in any of its editions, is a rare and prized collectible. (I have a good excuse for knowing nothing about Fanboy or Jay Lynch at the time: I was eight years old. But boy, was I ever already a fan of his Wacky Packages.)

I'm enough of a fanboy to not only own all the comics mentioned above (shut up) but to also defend Apple as compared to Microsoft by saying HOW you reached the top matters a lot more than being there. (See: the whole MS vs. US / monopoly thing for details.)

Also, sometimes some of the old argumetns never change. I remember when Macs were called "toys" because you had to click on icons to use programs (imagine!) and now some people say the same thing about iPads. SIGH. "Think different" indeed.

You don't get it do you? Steve cares about the experience of the user. That's why he doesn't want that SHIT on his phones. Anything done once and deployed everywhere has to cater to the lowest common denominator.

Usually, I'd get something like, "oh, sure Steve cares about you, he's just a multibillionaire laughing all the way to the bank."
Keep on believing that. That's why Apple tech support is rated #1 in the world, that's why the WHOLE experience is awesome, from the buying online, offline, to the unpacking, to the using, even to the selling price. That's why Steve answers his emails extremely often, while other companies threaten their fans with lawsuits.

someone drank a little too much kool-aide this morning! this comment is the ultimate example of a "fan-boy" argument. If you really believe that intentionally limiting functionality is in the user's best interest, fine. I disagree and we can leave it at that. But the fact is that Apple is trying intentionally through anti-competitive business practices to gain monopolistic control. Despite there being some good competition, the way they are trying to control media and encryption, and how artists and content producers get paid effects the whole industry. Quite frankly, content is more important than hardware and Apple is building walls and holding on but it's only a matter of time before they come down. Content is King, always. In an open society content must be controlled by the creators and not by the distributors. Am I a little Zealous in this belief, possibly I'll admit. But we get why you like Apple. We really do. Don't try to make us out to be "Trolls" or jealous. We understand that Apple popular with non-tech people because it's easy to use and you don't have to worry about incompatibility. We get that the user experience is simplified so that as long as you're ok with the funtionality that is pre-prescribed, that it's a good product. I personally have owned apple products sine the early 90's (when unlike today Apple fanboy = anti-establishment). I like them, but I like my Xoom better than my Ipad, and I would never in 1,000,000 years call the whole experience of owning an Apple product "awesome." Sorry, but it's just a product, nothing more. It's not that we don't understand where you're coming from, we do. it's just that you don't understand our argument. The assumption that if Apple didn't authorize it than it's "shit" is proof of that.

Does anyone remember the 1980's and early 90's label for this type of person. I was at first into Atari's starting with the Atari 2600 Video Game in 1977 the Atari computers in 1980. Then traided all that in for a NEC PC comparable laptop. The term used by some was 'Techno-slut', but more common called just a Nerd thanks to the Revenge of the Nerds four movies in the 1980's.

When you have faith, you cannot be reason with. You will also tend to defend your faith as something personal. And, as a religious faith, you will believe that you are the one that have the truth and you will also believe that everyone else that do not agree is misguided. Thereof you will defend your point of view against any reason. After all, you believe you have the truth.

Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft engineers are about to board a train to a computer conference. The Microsoft engineers notice that the Apple engineers bought only one ticket between them. The Microsoft engineers ask the Apple engineers how they plan on getting to the conference. "Watch and learn," one of the Apple engineers tells them.

As soon as the train leaves the station, the three Apple engineers rush from their seats and all squeeze into one restroom. When the conductor comes through the car he knocks on the restroom door and says "ticket please!" The door opens a crack and the one ticket is handed to the conductor. The Microsoft engineers are impressed, and decide that's what they will do on the trip back.

Then on the return trip, the Microsoft engineers notice that the Apple engineers haven't bought any tickets. "How do you plan on getting home without any tickets?" they ask. "Watch and learn," one of the Apple engineers tells them.

As soon as the train leaves the station, the three Microsoft engineers hurry for the restroom. A few moments later, one of the Apple engineers gets up from his seat, knocks on the restroom door and says, "ticket please!"

I am really becoming fond of this blog, techwise, these are stories you don't get to hear in social media. Everyone's so into the latest fad, and history is fast becoming a distant memory.
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Lynch may have been the first person to write the word, but the claim that he coined it is dubious. All language is spoken. The written word is the extremely temporary capturing of language. Again, I am not disputing that he may well have been the first to use the word "fanboy" in print. That seems possible enough, but, even if true, it's beside the point. The earliest know use of the simple word pairing dates back to 1919. All portmanteau words began as smaller words, and most every word changes meaning significantly over time. Take a look at the words "nice," "blurb," "pupil."

The word "fanboy" has an extremely simple anatomy, a trait that it shares with a lot of other slang expressions. Dictionaries should be sure to include a reference to the zine, but fair is fair. Let's say I used a phrase in print, "car guy," to describe my friend, an auto mechanic. A century later, someone publishes a underground comic called "Carguy: Hell on Wheels." You see what I'm getting at?
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A fanboy is a fan (male or female, but usually male) lacking in social skills and expressing their fandom in obsessive and maladaptive ways. A fanboy may not recognize that other people do not share his enthusiasm, or may not value people who fail to share his enthusiasm, or be otherwise unable to express himself in a way that would be considered socially functional.

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The idea that the business would soon need to buy some guns in order to get the personal ones out of service was an obvious one. But what should I get? I was a longtime fan of Grandpa Guns, the one and only YouTuber Hickock45. He is an unabashed Glock fanboy, who owns dozens of them, and incessantly praises them. He might be in the middle of a Colt SAA video, and still start praising those blocky, black guns. Also there was NutnFancy, another big Youtube Glock fan. I had never shot a Glock, but instead only held them at local gun shops, never really being impressed with their blocky ergonomics. But I did trust those two youtubers a bit.

(Blogger AU where quirkless Izuku is Ground Zero's number one fanboy and runs a blog strictly about him. Katsuki just follows him for his fight analysis posts, he swears. He just happens to really like talking with the guy too. And maybe he's kind of sweet. And maybe Katsuki kind of... doesn't mind that this guy is thirsty for him.)

He felt a little more normal when he returned to his locker with a towel around his waist and carrying his smokey clothing. He had a second towel that he used to rub at his hair to dry it off as he dumped the clothing and opened his locker to get his civilian clothing. Right as he did, he heard a familiar chime that alerted him to an app notification. It was a sound he had become used to in only the past couple of weeks. He moved to dig his phone out of the pocket of his civilian pants where he had stored it and had forgotten to bring it with him on his patrol.