Putting The “Cult” In “Cult Of Mac”

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Last week I posted some half-baked rants about iPhoto 09, and as usual the comments briefly buzzed with some agreement and disagreement.

But there was also this comment, from reader KaL MichaeL (reproduced sans editing):

“I love your blog except when you say anything negative about an apple product. I feel that if you are promoting the Mac Cult then you are a apple Fan end to end.”

And that… that struck me as a little weird.

No personal criticism intended, KaL MichaeL, but words cannot express how much I disagree with you on this.

The Cult of Mac celebrates all that’s good and great about Apple and its products, but that doesn’t make us blind to its failures and errors. A blog that simply promoted Apple and Apple fandom from “end to end”, as you put it, would be beyond dull. In fact, it would probably be a little bit like Hotnews: nothing more than PR puffery.

And that’s not what we’re all about. We don’t want to do that. We want to celebrate what Apple does (in our opinion) right, and moan in a grumpy manner about what it does (in our opinion) wrong. What else, after all, is the blogosphere for?

Cult readers, now’s your chance to cut me down and demand more slavish devotion to the Church of Mac. Or not.

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