Is it just me or has Phandroid.com seen a rise in mindless android posters lately?
With android marketshare going up or at the very least maintaining its position of the largest mobile OS in use it has ushered in a new age.
Well that is the way I am experiencing it and I want to know if I am the only one that feels this way.
So here is what I see happening in the comment section of Phandroid's articles:
Fandroids popping up EVERYWHERE!
I am not talking about Android users, Android appreciators or Android ignorants. (The first two being people that like Android, but don't worship it as their new god and the latter being the people who buy android phones without knowing a thing about android.)
I am talking about Fandroids, the mindless possessed herd that preach Android!
I used to dislike Apple because of the"Apple/Steve Jobs is God"-attitude, but as I spend some time with people who own iPhones and/or iPads, I learned that those are actually great products. No, I would never spend money on them, but I could see why some rational person might. It offers simplicity, it is easy to use and doesn't require you to spend ages going through all the settings to get it to work. Sure this comes at the price of customization and lack of features, but not everyone wants that. Some people just want a good looking phone with which they can make a call and read email. So I understood why people could like those products and I even recommended some of those people to go with iOS over android.
But that didn't change the fact that there were iSheep who kissed the ground Steve Jobs walked, praised every non-sensical statement apple made and bashed any other opinion. I changed my attitude from hating Apple, to disliking mindless iSheep. (Given Apple's suing spree I do dislike them, but as they are a commercial company I can understand their actions)
Anyway, fast-forward to current day.
I read an article about the lawsuits between apple and samsung and what do I see? The same idiotic comments I am used to hear from iSheep, only this time they are coming from Android users.
There are still a lot of people with common sense posting there, but saying 1 positive thing about Apple (whether it is an opinion, a fact or some other harmless statement) and the RAGE of the Fandroids is ignited!
I understand that there are people that come to those articles to bash android and praise Apple ( those people need to get a hobby), but I am not talking about those people. I am talking about people that normally express their opinion about the matter, which happens to favour Apple in at least one way. Making the simple comment that you think the Galaxy S looks copied from the iPhone gets you a reply-spree bashing your opinion.
Am I the only one who sees this? Have we gone from being the better man (and better OS users) to their level of name calling, opinion bashing and other mindless activities?
I thought android users were better than that, but it seems that Android has gotten its own herd of mindless followers similar to the iSheep.
This was to be expected of course with androids market share rising so high, but I never expected to see such drivel in comments on phandroid articles.
But it could also just be me, so I ask you: Is it just me or are some of you seeing similar things?
