What I don't understand about fanbois is how most of them have no skin in the game. It's OK to argue passionately about the merits of iOS if you designed and implemented it. It's a little weird when all you've done is paid $599 for a phone that uses it.<p>Define yourself by what you do, not what you've bought.
Can we purge the word "fanboy" from our collective lexicon?<p>I don't think I've seen a single discussion enriched by its use. It's just a catch-all insult, like the "fag" of the twenty-first-century tech scene.<p>(Don't even get me started on "fanboi")
I feel that gadgets can be a proxy for people to feel superior to each other like with cars, sports teams, and purses. I don't know what people hope to get out of arguing about it other than entertainment perhaps.